Re: [Vimprobable-users] [Feature-Request] auto-hide statusbar

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

captaincurrie <cap...@gm...> wrote:
> But now that you mention it, the status bar does show up 
> after i press <Tab> to  open the 'completion menu' and close it. 
> Is that intentional?

I would say that's a bug. I will look into it.

> Basically, even thou both bars can be set to 'false', 
> they show up when 'used' and then
> stay up. Is that intentional? 

For the input bar, that's currently intended. Whenever this question
came up, I tried to discuss the underlying question of policy. I.e.
when to "auto-hide" the bar. Basically, I see two options:

- "Auto-hide" it when it is empty anyway. I.e. check whether there is
  any string in the container, enable if so and disable otherwise.

- *Force* the bar to be empty unless it is currently typed in and thus
  hide it all the time it's "not being used".

The second option seemed to be the preferred one in some previous patch
attempts. I still don't have a great feeling about it as this disables
all browser feedback to the user (first and foremost: error messages
will not be shown). Though I'm open to let myself be convinced why this
would be a good idea.

Hannes