I don't have links at hand but in my ten or so years spent answering Vim questions in various forums I have seen that request quite a few times. But are those drive-by askers from six years ago still here? Will they use the feature?
>From where I stand, the only use of a zero cmdheight would be in combination with a floating window à la "command palette/quake terminal". I have zero interest for such a feature and I think that there are more productive things to do. On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 1:56:20 PM UTC+2 toothpik wrote: > if we're voting put me down on the side of less work, less complicated code > > i tried a zero cmdheight and immediately didn't like it > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 5:24 AM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> It takes a lot of effort to make zero 'cmdheight' work properly. >> Various bugs and corner cases keep popping up. >> >> I added the message window, so that various informative messages do not >> get lost, and that helps. But it also makes it more complicated. >> >> There is also one bug that I don't know how to reproduce yet, which >> makes the window frames too tall. The last statusline goes missing. >> >> So, I was wondering who will actually want to use this? It gives you a >> line of extra space, at the cost of various side effects. Especially >> the last status line jumping up when typing ":" or "/". Is this worth >> the extra work and making the code more complicated? >> >> >> -- >> Wi n0t trei a h0liday in Sweden thi yer? >> "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) >> PICTURES LTD >> >> /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net >> \\\ >> /// >> \\\ >> \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ >> /// >> \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org >> /// >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. >> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. >> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "vim_dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20220829102404.A8A9B1C0907%40moolenaar.net >> . >> > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/f9a75061-56b9-415d-b8e8-3a8c34c544fan%40googlegroups.com.
