Post by Robert on Jan 26, 2023 8:43:46 GMT -5
This is more of a 'need' than a suggestion. As my decrepit eyesight continues to deteriorate, I am finding it harder and harder to quickly distinguish between INS and OVR on the status line. In younger days, these two things would be a cinch to tell apart. Today, not so much. Yes, I can take off my glasses and stare, but there are limits to how well this works.
Off the top of my head, I thought up a dozen different ways to accomplish this, from making either INS or OVR show in red font, to making a different background color, like Data INS does now, to putting (OVR) in parens, and so on, and so on.
I am not all that fussy how it gets done, although using two different background colors might be an issue for colorblind users to tell apart.
Here is what I think would work, wouldn't make things worse, and would be easy to do:
Change OVR to OVER
That's it. OVER and INS will look so different, I won't even have to look close to tell.
Runner-up: Change spelling of OVR to "ovr". That way, the case-change from "ovr" to "INS" would make it stand out.
You may have a better idea. As I say, I came up with a dozen different ways. Using OVER has the advantage that it's extremely simple to do, and will work.
===> Just a thought.
A lot of editors like Word make this distinction by graying-out OVR, because their normal mode is INS. In SPFLite, normal mode is OVR. If you could do that, that would work too. Other editors simply don't show OVR at all; having INS is the "non-normal" state, so just leaving OVR mode blank would make it very obvious that it's "NOT insert mode". So, you wouldn't be talking about INS/OVR mode any more; you only mention INS mode because that would be the only one you'd "see" on the status bar: INS or nothing.
Off the top of my head, I thought up a dozen different ways to accomplish this, from making either INS or OVR show in red font, to making a different background color, like Data INS does now, to putting (OVR) in parens, and so on, and so on.
I am not all that fussy how it gets done, although using two different background colors might be an issue for colorblind users to tell apart.
Here is what I think would work, wouldn't make things worse, and would be easy to do:
Change OVR to OVER
That's it. OVER and INS will look so different, I won't even have to look close to tell.
Runner-up: Change spelling of OVR to "ovr". That way, the case-change from "ovr" to "INS" would make it stand out.
You may have a better idea. As I say, I came up with a dozen different ways. Using OVER has the advantage that it's extremely simple to do, and will work.
===> Just a thought.
A lot of editors like Word make this distinction by graying-out OVR, because their normal mode is INS. In SPFLite, normal mode is OVR. If you could do that, that would work too. Other editors simply don't show OVR at all; having INS is the "non-normal" state, so just leaving OVR mode blank would make it very obvious that it's "NOT insert mode". So, you wouldn't be talking about INS/OVR mode any more; you only mention INS mode because that would be the only one you'd "see" on the status bar: INS or nothing.
