'Find' in VISUAL MODE reverts to first occurrence when looping through them
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BUG REPORT
Environment:
- VSCode Version: 1.19.0
- VsCodeVim Version: Sunny Seattle
- OS: Ubuntu 17.10
What happened:
When navigating through occurrences of Find in file that was initiated with VISUAL MODE, cursor goes back to first occurrence whenever find popup is closed.
What did you expect to happen:
Cursor should stay at current occurrence upon exiting Find in file.
How to reproduce it:
- Select chunk of text (e.g.
const) with multiple occurrences in file with v (mode switches to VISUAL). - Press Ctrl+f. Find popup appears with
constin it. - Navigate through occurrences with Enter.
- Press Esc on desired occurrence to close find popup and expect the cursor to stay on this occurrence.
- See the cursor going back to first occurrence where it was in step 1.
- Cry.
Example

Here Find started at first const, I've navigated to third one with Enter. When I press Esc to exit Find, cursor goes back to first const though should stay at third one.
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in VSCodeVim by entering Visual mode, opening Find with Ctrl+F, navigating with Enter, and closing it with Esc. Trace the Visual-mode Find handling and cursor restoration; done means the cursor remains on the selected occurrence after the popup closes, with the behavior covered by a regression test if the existing test setup supports it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- desktop, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100