Vim: Insert-mode selections do not work
What did you do?
Select some text while in insert mode, for example with the mouse or Shift+arrow.
Then type something that operates on the text (that works in vanilla VS Code) for example ( to surround with parentheses.
What did you expect to happen?
I expected the editor to go into some sort of Insert-mode selection, more similar to regular VS Code selection that Vim modes, where I could type into the selection to replace it, or type (, [, {, ', ", backtick, etc. to surround the selection with pairs of characters.
What happened instead?
The editor went straight into Vim visual mode, where those keys don’t do anything.
Technical details:
- VSCode Version: 1.3.1
- VsCodeVim Version: 0.1.3
- OS: Mac OS X
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 8 years ago
- Reactions: 10
- Comments: 26 (14 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Stay in Insert Mode When Selecting Adds a configuration option to restore the previous behaviour; just set `"vim.switchToVisualOnSelection": true`. Concerns #479 — committed to killercup/Vim by killercup 8 years ago
- Stay in insert mode when selecting Adds a configuration option to restore the previous behaviour; just set `"vim.switchToVisualOnSelection": true`. Concerns #479 — committed to killercup/Vim by killercup 8 years ago
Sorry, I understand. Thumb up issues means create a new issue? Not sure these github workflow and currently not able to contribute the code. Thanks to the reply.
It also breaks snippets that have variable parts, unless I’m missing something.
👍 VsCode snippets are a great feature.
If we make it configureable, I would encourage not breaking VsCode snippets to be the default, and then the the more vim-like behavior to be a configuration setting. Although either way is probably fine, if it makes it into the ReadMe.
Got it, thanks.
I kind of have the same problem, when using snippets with variable label. When snippet tab stops at label variable, it turned into visual mode which broke the snippets operation. I keep uninstalling vim extension just because I can’t use snippet well.