Rebound h or l requires double tapping when switching directions
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Description
Describe the bug
When h and l are rebound they work as expected at first. Moving the cursor left works as expected, moving right does too if you did that first. Then, when trying to move the cursor in the other direction it will require an extra keystroke before it actually starts moving.
To Reproduce
- Paste the following in settings.json:
"vim.normalModeKeyBindings": [
{
"before": [
"t"
],
"after": [
"h"
],
},
{
"before": [
"y"
],
"after": [
"l"
],
},
]
- Save the file
- Hit
yto move the cursor one step to the left. - Hit
tto try to move the cursor to the right, nothing happens - Hit
tagain and the cursor now moves.
Expected behavior
The dead keystroke would not be required
Environment (please complete the following information):
- Extension (VsCodeVim) version: v1.23.1
- VSCode version: 1.69.1
- OS: NixOS Unstable (x86_64)
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Research direction
Reproduce the behavior using settings.json and the vim.normalModeKeyBindings configuration shown in the issue. Trace how the remapped h and l keystrokes are processed in normal mode; done means switching directions moves the cursor immediately without a dead keystroke.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100