Vim: CPU ran into 200%+ in VSCode 1.18.0

@nzig that blog post says:

Currently only statusBarItem.errorBackground is supported to avoid the Status bar looking too colorful.

so it looks to me like that’d be of limited use…

FWIW I managed to find a solution to color the status bar item based on its text, using the Customize UI extension:

    "customizeUI.stylesheet": {
        "#vscodevim\\.vim\\.primary[aria-label=\"-- INSERT --\"]": "background-color: #98971a !important;",
        "#vscodevim\\.vim\\.primary[aria-label=\"-- VISUAL --\"]": "background-color: #b16286 !important;",
        "#vscodevim\\.vim\\.primary[aria-label^=\":\"]": "background-color: #7c6f64 !important;",
    },

result:

Have the same thing. Arrived at Vim extension by elimination of extensions. Profiled the extension and got this:

Which hints at my customising the status bar colors. Removed my config and everything is normal again!

confirm that "vim.statusBarColorControl": false fixes the issue. great catch @jondot 👍 don’t think it’s a real fix but rather a workaround 😄

FWIW I managed to find a solution to color the status bar item based on its text, using the Customize UI extension:

For some reason this does not work for me. How do you find those values (“#vscodevim.…”). Maybe those are different now.

They are indeed! It’s #vscodevim\\.vim\\.primary now, adjusted above.

I found them by opening the developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-P, “Developer: Toggle Developer tools”) and then using the picker at the top left of the “Elements” tab to inspect the element.

Could this recent change solve this? https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_53#_status-bar-entry-background-color-api

I was brought here by the below link (about 2/3 of the way down the page, in the emulated-plugins section), thinking I couldn’t use vim-airline with VSCodeVim. It seems this no longer affecting vim-airline, yes? Might be best to remove the disclaimer at the top of the emulated-plugins section

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim#-emulated-plugins

I’d recommend sticking a 👍 on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/43226 if you want to be able to enable statusbar colours without performance issues.

From my experience it depends on the machine you are using. Maybe it was worse in 2017 regardless of your machine, but it is still an issue.

Does anybody still get this issue on recent versions of VSCodeVim?

FYI, Customize UI no longer works so that option is off the table 😦

I switched to be5invis/vscode-custom-css which still works (though since the CSS is placed in a normal file with it, use \ instead of \\ and " instead of \" above).

It was the vim extension causing the 100% CPU usage issue for me also. Removing any/all “neovim” related settings took care of the problem. Just changing some to a ‘disabled’ value or just commenting out did not work. I had to totally remove then entries.

On Windows 10, the same happens.