Make vim.statusbarcolors only affect the mode string.

[ghost]

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Currently the extension changes the colour of the whole status bar. It would be great to have an option to just change the mode string.

[xconverge]

What do you mean? Do you mean only change the color there or the actual text?

[ghost]

Something like this:

[ghost]

I did a quick patch to out/src/mode/modeHandler.js:

setStatusBarText(text) {
    if (!ModeHandler._statusBarItem) {
        ModeHandler._statusBarItem = vscode.window.createStatusBarItem(vscode.StatusBarAlignment.Left);
    }
    ModeHandler._statusBarItem.text = text || '';
    if (this._vimState.currentModeName().toLowerCase() === 'insert' || this._vimState.currentModeName().toLowerCase() === 'replace') {
        ModeHandler._statusBarItem.color = 'red';
    }
    else if (this._vimState.currentModeName().toLowerCase().startsWith('visual')) {
        ModeHandler._statusBarItem.color = 'orange';
    }
    else {
        ModeHandler._statusBarItem.color = 'white';
    }
    ModeHandler._statusBarItem.show();
}

From reading the VS Code API docs, you can only set the foreground colour. :-(

[jpoon]

Closing this issue given the age of the bug and the lack of activity.