Another thing you would lose, and that I could not accept losing, is the partial command you've typed, as when there is some pending operator, or the 'f' key. It couldn't even be shown somewhere else with a plugin, as far as I know.
Il giorno martedì 30 agosto 2022 alle 23:23:47 UTC+2 Gianmaria Bajo ha scritto: > 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/6ea6bb33-fa10-4c87-923e-ebaf7f0b0c2en%40googlegroups.com.
