'JavaScript syntax highlighting -- is status a keyword? -- what's it used for?

My vim syntax highlighting just lead me to believe that status is a keyword in JavaScript.

Searching around all I can find are articles about window.status in browser JavaScript. Is this the meaning of this 'keyword' status or is there something different going on?

What is the keyword status?

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Solution 1:[1]

If you play around in your console. You can do the following:

-> status
<- ""

-> window.status
<- ""

-> status='333'
<- "333"

-> status
<- "333"

-> window.status
<- "333"

This to me indicates that the keyword status is simply an alias for the window.status property. What exactly window.status does I am not sure.

EDIT: After reading the comment below, I realized that properties of the windows object are essentially global. So this makes status the same as window.status and NOT an alias as I mention above.

See this Stack Overflow about the window object: Is window really global in Javascript?

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