vimprobable-users

[Vimprobable-users] [Feature] Autohide for input box

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

This is a highly experimental patch which introduces a new setting:

:set autohide=true

should make the input box disappear automatically whenever it is not in
use.

I don't care for this very much myself; I think the opening and closing
of widgets is a visual irritation. So if anyone would like to see this
included, please test, test, test - otherwise, I will not merge it!

Hannes

Re: [Vimprobable-users] [Feature] Autohide for input box

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi Hannse!
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:00:11PM +0100, Hannes Schüller wrote:
> I don't care for this very much myself; I think the opening and closing
> of widgets is a visual irritation. So if anyone would like to see this
> included, please test, test, test - otherwise, I will not merge it!
> 
> Hannes

I'm undecided if this would be a nice feature, a single line more space for
browsing. For now it's irritating me, but I think I'll become accustomed with
this behaviour soon.

I think it would be more intuitive if the input widget will be removed until
nothing is show in input. If I use hinting and break it with <ESC> the input
is erased but still visible, until <ESC> is pressed a second time.

If I enable autohide an :set some value and than activate hinting, the imput
widget disappears when the hint appear. Without these bugs, this could be a
nice feature.

Daniel

Re: [Vimprobable-users] [Feature] Autohide for input box

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi!

If the input widget is disabled and you focus a input field, vimprobable
switches to insert mode but we have no indicator for the state. For me
it's neccessary to see if vimprobable in insert mode or not. Maybe we
could add a little indicator in the black bar where the current URL is
displayed (somthing like [i] for insert mode, [p] for pass through and
otherwise [n] or so).

Daniel

Re: [Vimprobable-users] [Feature] Autohide for input box

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

Just to let everybody know I'm not developing this patch any further. I
agree with Daniel's feedback as to how this should be handled. However,
seeing that neither me nor him was really interested in this feature
above purely academic interest (and nobody else showed any interest), I
don't see the point.

Hannes