I've made an extension that puts a debugger into the statusbar, in order to workaround a year-old issue with the default floating debugger widget (#2513 #9093) but I cannot quite make it work perfectly because there's no API for getting the status of the debugger.

In order to do that it would be necessary to know:

• if a debug session is currently active
• when it started/stopped
• if code execution is paused

A decent, and maybe more general, starting point might be to expose the switches used in keybindings under the when key, like inDebugMode for instance.

What do you think?