Define a Static Mode for inactive windows about helix HOT 4 CLOSED

It can be highlighted via ui.statusline.inactive IIRC

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modes do not exist per view and are global. This is intentional, it was different in the past and caused significant problems/bugs.

We also want to move away from having so many builtin modes. The only modes we ant to exist is normal and insert-mode. All other modes should just be sticky keymaps (wouldn't change much from the users perspective except for the way remapping works). So adding additional buildin modes goes in the opposition direction of what is planned.

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It can be highlighted via ui.statusline.inactive IIRC

@kirawi - I also thought ui.statusline.inactive would work that way, but it styles the statusline when inactive.

We also want to move away from having so many builtin modes.

@pascalkuthe - This isn't a mode per se. When I said "first-class", I meant that it acts just like the other modes in terms of how you configure and style it. It doesn't have its own bindings or anything like that (it's just something to do with the mode indicator when there is no proper mode).

Above all else, I'm just trying to address the way the mode indicator vanishes when you switch windows. If you agree that the indicator should continue to exist, that requires some kind of content. The rest of this proposal follows pretty naturally from there (to my mind).

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@pascalkuthe - To be honest, I think you closed this too quickly. At the very least, your reason for closing it wasn't particularly relevant to the proposal, and doesn't address the underlying issue at all, mate.

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