Allow disabling `editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation` in specific modes (particularly insert).
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Description
The recent November 2018 update introduces the editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation setting.
Problem
The editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation looks great in visual and normal mode. However on insert mode it's easy to type faster than the animation moves, which makes it look pretty terrible.
Solution
Add a setting, for example vim.disableCursorSmoothAnimationForModes that takes an array of strings with the modes where the cursor should not animate. Then, you could go:
"vim.disableCursorSmoothAnimationForModes": ["insert"],
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Research direction
Start by tracing how VSCodeVim represents modes and how it interacts with VS Code's editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation setting. Add the proposed mode-list setting so users can disable smooth cursor animation in selected modes, then verify that insert mode suppresses animation while visual and normal modes retain it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100