Is there a way to turn off Hidden Selection Indicator?

[huytd]

First of all, thank you so much for making this plugin, I love Kakoune, and being able to have a Kakoune-like experience in VSCode is awesome!

For the hidden selection indicator, this feature is good but I tend to use pageUp/pageDown a lot and sometimes the indicator leaves some trace on the screen for a while, making the scrolling experience not smooth, and I rarely need it for now.

I tried to turn it off by setting hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration to null or remove it, but nothing works:

"": {
  "hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration": null
}

Is this the right way to turn it off?

[71]

Looks like there is a bug in VS Code where it does not properly support the "" key in settings (from the side of the extension, we don't receive configuration change events when it changes, and when explicitly reading its value VS Code always returns its default value). Looks like microsoft/vscode#126972.

[71]

There was also an issue within Dance where the indicator couldn't be disabled. This was fixed in 08199c5.

While waiting for microsoft/vscode#126972 to get fixed, you can specify this for each mode individually:

"dance.modes": {
  "normal": {
    "hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration": {}
  },
  "insert": {
    "hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration": {}
  },
}

Note that {} is used rather than null. In Dance modes configuration, null means "inherit from the "" mode", so we need another value to represent "disable this."

[huytd]

Awesome, thank you so much!

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Is there a way to have the text, but not the colored bar?

[71]

@BeastyBlacksmith You can set the backgroundColor and borderColor properties to a transparent color:

"dance.modes": {
    "": {
        "hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration": {
            "backgroundColor": "#00000000",
            "borderColor": "#00000000",
        },
    },
},

[BeastyBlacksmith]

that works okay, but then the text is always at the end of the line and jumps around while scrolling.
I'd prefer to have it locked at the beginning of the line. ( would be also fine to change the color of the indicator box to the background color, but "backgroundColor": "$editor.background" made no difference)

[71]

I don't think there's a way to hide the text on the line with "backgroundColor": "$editor.background". In theory I could add another decoration to the text on the rest of the line so that we could make it invisible, but that's a lot of work. Alternatively, there might be a way to use hacks to apply some custom style to the text in a way that pushes the actual contents of the line away, but I haven't experimented much with this.

If you want the text to be at the start of the line, you can set isWholeLine: false (though it disables the ability to add background colors and border colors).

[71]

Update: with f22f603, you can write

"dance.modes": {
    "": {
        "hiddenSelectionsIndicatorsDecoration": {
            "after": {
                "color": "$list.warningForeground",
                "fontStyle": "inherit; margin-right: 100vw",
            },
            "isWholeLine": false,
        },
    },
},

It uses a hack I first saw in vscode-power-mode to add arbitrary style to decorations.