Cancel sidebar just for plots

[cool-RR]

After some experience with the sidebar I realize that I want it to not appear when I'm doing a plot. Is there a setting for that?

Update: Now that I looked at it again, I'm not sure what I'm seeing is the sidebar. I'm talking about the thing in the bottom right:

How do I get it to not appear when I'm running plots? I've got disp_sidebar set to False.

[midichef]

Yes, this is the sidebar.

I can reproduce that behavior, I see it when disp_sidebar is set to False. I think it may be a bug, I'll submit a fix.

Until then, you can use a hack to make the sidebar tiny, just for graphs, by putting in your .visidatarc:

GraphSheet.options.disp_sidebar_width=1
GraphSheet.options.disp_sidebar_height=1

[saulpw]

Status messages still show up when disp_sidebar=False because there is no other way to see them, and the status sidebar only persists until a key is pressed. I don't think we should change this unless we put the status messages back on the bottom line, or something else. In the meantime, @midichef 's hack will totally work.

[cool-RR]

Thanks. I added monkeypatching to filter out these messages, along with other uninteresting messages:

STATUS_PATTERNS_BY_FORCED_PRIORITY = {
    -1: ( # Priority of `-1` means to drop the message completely
        re.compile(r'^sampling [0-9]+ rows$'), 
        re.compile(r'guessed "dir" filetype based on contents'), 
        re.compile(r'finished loading rows'), 
        re.compile(r'loading data points'), 
        re.compile(r'loaded .* points \(0 errors\)'), 
    ),
    0: (
        re.compile(r'^reload_modified aborted$'), 
    ),
}

@VisiData.api
def status(vd: VisiData, *args, priority: int = 0) -> bool:
    'Display *args* on status until next action.'
    if not args:
        return True

    ### Forcing different priority on some messages: ###############################################
    #                                                                                              #
    messages = tuple(map(str, args))
    for message in messages:
        for forced_priority, patterns in STATUS_PATTERNS_BY_FORCED_PRIORITY.items():
            for pattern in patterns:
                if pattern.match(message):
                    priority = min(priority, forced_priority)
                    
    if priority < 0:
        return False
    
    k = (priority, messages)    
    #                                                                                              #
    ### Finished forcing different priority on some messages. ######################################
    
    vd.statuses[k] = vd.statuses.get(k, 0) + 1

    source = vd.getStatusSource()

    if not vd.cursesEnabled:
        msg = '\r' + visidata.statusbar.composeStatus(args)
        if vd.options.debug:
            msg += f' [{source}]'
        builtins.print(msg, file=sys.stderr)

    return vd.addToStatusHistory(*args, priority=priority, source=source)