Editor-local status bar for Vim like interactions?

[onlymee]

Before I go digging into this myself, has anybody looked into the possibility of implementing a secondary "status bar" in the editor windows, were - for example typical Vim content (like mode, search, command entry) etc. would be displayed?

I find that in large projects the separation between the Vim status information, in the status bar of the main window, and the editor I am working from is a productivity drag. There is just too much other clutter in the global status bar (at least in the big enterprise projects I work on, and the various other addins required) and it is visually detached from the context to which it applies.

Probably the facility would be useful for many other addins and perhaps a separate extension, or a pull request to VSCode itself would be another route - but for now I was thinking that it might be an easier step to try and implement it as part of the Vim extension.

Just interested whether others have looked at this - before I commit too much time to it!

I'm even thinking that some kind of popup for command interactions might be better than the distant global status bar. However, while in keeping with VSCode world... I don't think that sits well with my Vi-brain.

Antony