Thanks for the compliment. I was a bit scared after reading the headline, though.

I don't understand very well what you mean by "Intellisense conflict" - as far as I know, Intellisense appears only in a drop down box below where the cursor is. It would be good to know exactly what you are expecting to see at the status line.

But in any case, I understand the complaint about obscuring the status line. In ViEmu for Word and Outlook I couldn't use the status line for this purpose (caused all sorts of problems, flickering, etc...), so there is an additional window at the bottom of the editing window. I plan to bring this "technology" to a future version of ViEmu/Visual Studio (and SQL Server), it will probably be configurable with a user setting. I hope that will fix it for you.

BTW, there's no way to put the output in the middle of the status bar or anywhere else. You give VS the string, it shows it - that's all the configurability there is.

Regards,

  Jon

Noted for future implementation - I'll let you know when it's ready (it'll take some time, though).

Cheers,

   Jon

Afton, thanks for the feedback. Yes, knowing that others want this is very useful when prioritizing the features/requests. I'll make sure to have something like this in the near future, as I bring in other improvements developed for the Word & Outlook version.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out. I know the current status bar has its own issues. I plan to address them somehow in a future version - it's pretty difficult in the Word/Outlook environment because of the limited I access for 3rd party addins. Some of these fixes will be simple enough in the VS and SQL environment, as it's richer.

I was thinking more of an overlay on the bottom part of the editing window, making sure somehow that the cursor/interest area doesn't end up mapped there. The reason is that, that way, you get the command entry right below your current editing window, instead of at the bottom, even if you have your editor split in two and may be editing at the top one.

Autocompletion is indeed an oft-demanded feature and it's planned for a future version.

Another vote for adding a separate ViEmu bar. With Visual Assist X installed, I cannot see the ViEmu command-line most of the time, because VAX reparses the file whenever you finish a typing burst, and uses the status bar for notification. So, most of the time the status bar is telling me VAX is "Ready!"