Additional status bar elements; user configurable.

11 years ago • updated by 11 years ago • 1

It'd be nice to have the option to add additional items to the status bar:

Caret / Selection

Column Index (0-based, not 1-based)
Character Index (literal file offset of cursor in raw encoded bytestring bytes)
Selection Length (in characters)
Syntax Highlighting Scope (i.e. "plain.text", or "python.source function.parameter.python.variable", etc.)

Counts

Line Count
Character Count
Word Count

Menus

Tab Size / Style
Line Endings
Current File Label / Most Recently Used (MRU) Menu (window-specific)

If the status bar was made from a toolbar using custom separator widgets (I like your separators a lot ;) that would give flexibility including left/right/center alignment, spacing, and separation as well as grouping, and simple plist serialization of the user's preference. And yes, with absolutely everything enabled it can get kinda out-of-hand:

Yes, that's a status bar with everything enabled. :P

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11 years ago

So much to do, so little time :)

It's certainly a feature I'd like to see as well, once the big features like for example regular expression search and multi file search are implemented.

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