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Suggestion: display edit mode

Open matejaputic opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Since there are three edit modes for this extension, it would be nice if there was an indicator of what edit mode you were in, similar to native vim at the bottom of the screen.

matejaputic avatar Aug 06 '19 21:08 matejaputic

I see that there are two modes displayed, command and edit, but these are jupyterlab modes, not jupytelab-vim modes. I was just confused how these correspond to Jupyter command, Vim command, and Vim insert modes. For example, if I'm in edit mode and I type i to insert, it still indicates edit mode, whereas I would expect it to say insert

matejaputic avatar Aug 06 '19 21:08 matejaputic

I tend to use the cursor as an indicator for the current mode, which means you don't need to look away to check the status bar:

  • No cursor: JupyterLab command mode
  • Block cursor: JupyterLab edit mode, vim command mode
  • I-beam cursor: JupyterLab edit mode, vim insert mode

joelostblom avatar Aug 13 '19 16:08 joelostblom