Hotkeys are a usability problem about zellij HOT 5 CLOSED

I've started thinking about this, along with adding a split between command and normal mode.

@thedrow, I like the idea of also having an "easy" command mode, where you start typing and get some simple auto-complete of available commands

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I am very much on board with this. What we have now is mostly just a placeholder.

My initial thoughts are to go with a vim-like modal approach. You press a hot-key to go into "control" mode, you get a visual indication that you're in that mode (eg. the borders become dashes) and you have a brief powerline-like help that tells you what you can do in this mode. (EDIT: such as resize panes, change their order, hide them, lock a certain group of panes together so that they are treated as one pane when resizing, move things to different tabs, etc.) What do you think?

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I'll need to see a screenshot of the concept, but generally, it sounds a lot better, useability wise.

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Hey @thedrow - while we're still working out the kinks on this, we've made a lot of progress in this area recently. If you'd like to check out the latest version from main and let us know what you think that would be great :) There's now a status bar which lets you know the keybindings available to you in real time.

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I'll check it out.

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