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jwkvam / jupyterlab-vim

:neckbeard: Vim notebook cell bindings for JupyterLab
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Suggestion: display edit mode #91

Open matejaputic opened 5 years ago

matejaputic commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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

joelostblom commented 5 years ago

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: