Just my 2 cents. For me it's utterly useless.
You lose the messages, even if they show up somewhere else, they would show up in a wrong/more difficult place to read, it would be distracting. For messages, the most natural place is the bottom line. This reason alone would be enough for me never to use it. You lose the feedback about the size of the visual area as Bram said, I also use it. You lose feedback from commands. For example I have nnoremap \W :noau wall<cr> and in the command line I can see if some file was actually written. The advantage is zero, one more line is nothing if you lose the message area that you'll need to reimplement necessarily in some other form. And I'm not counting the bugs, the added complexity to the code, etc. Even if it worked perfectly I would not use it. That some people express desire for it means nothing. Many new users that come from other programs, instinctively want things to look as in their old favorite program. Except that they won't use the feature either, once they realize it's bad. Other people say yes only because it looks shiny, but maybe they use the editor 2 minutes a day in average, or just go away the day after. Surely it's possible to ignore the desires of such audiences? I was already disappointed that neovim merged it just to please the brainless masses. I hope you don't do the same mistake. With all respect to the author of the patch, I understand it's interesting to try to implement new things, but this is just a bad idea, IMHO. Il giorno lunedì 29 agosto 2022 alle 12:24:15 UTC+2 Bram Moolenaar ha scritto: > > 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/2976955d-ef69-41f0-8cbc-2b08afae91acn%40googlegroups.com.
