Hi,

OK, look. I don't have any real arguments besides this: most of the
real screen estate should be allocated to the holy grail: source code.
This is IMHO the main concept, the design objective.

Please, consider this patch (or a modified flavor) for inclusion! :)

-Ilyes

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Coda Highland <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Making the status bar optional is probably not feasible as it contains
>>> > the Locator (and in case of FakeVim the "command line").
>>> Would you settle for those locator & command line to only appear, down
>>> there where the status bar should be, when invoked?
>>
>> I think this would create more problems then is actually solved,
>> but I'd certainly would look how it feels if the option was there.
>> But really, I have a hard time to imagine that the result will be usable.
>
> It's really not that bad at all -- it's actually pretty common in
> other types of applications. Web browsers often pop up a bar for the
> "find" command when you invoke it that goes away when you're not
> searching, for example, and in many video games you can press Enter to
> pop up a console that goes away when you're done with it. Even in vim
> the command line is placed over the status bar when it's in use. I can
> easily see pressing : in FakeVim's command mode popping up a line edit
> at the bottom of the screen, or likewise pressing Ctrl+K to pop up a
> locator bar.
>
> /s/ Adam
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