VSCodeVim / VSCodeVim/Vim

After pressing %, and empty / search does not use the word picked up by %.

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Description

Bug Report

What happened and how to reproduce:

Given the document:

(1)
foo (2)
bar (3)
foo (4)
bar (5)
foo (6)
bar (7)

With the cursor at the beginning, search by typing "/foo" to go to the second line.
Then navigate down to the third line and type "%" on bar. This jumps us to line 5.
Now type "/". In vim, this takes you to line 5. But in vscode, it takes you to line 6. The /-based searches are not updated by the word from %.

What did you expect to happen:

I expected % to update the /-search, just like in vi/vim.

Environment:

  • Extension Name: vim
  • Extension Version: 0.11.3
  • OS Version: Darwin x64 17.4.0
  • VSCode version: 1.21.1

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Research direction

Reproduce the reported sequence in the VSCode Vim extension using the provided document: search for “foo”, move to “bar”, press “%”, then press “/” and Enter. Trace the search state updated by % and compare it with Vim’s behavior; done means the subsequent empty / search returns to the word selected by %.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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