Status Bar

The status bar gives you updates about what’s going on in the IDE, whether you are doing a build, conducting a search, running a macro, or performing any other such operation.

Small features like the status bar always present a challenge, if not a dare, to a tester. Features like these nearly mock us with their "You’ll never be able to find a new bug against me" attitude. Or maybe I’m just bitter that I don’t recall finding any good bugs against the status bar.

Status Bar Options

As you would expect, there are not many options with the status bar. In fact, I believe this option might be the only one.

Tip 1.36: You can hide the status bar

I’m not sure why you may want to hide the status bar. Maybe when you are in Full Screen mode, you want ...

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