Strange behavior about <C-o> in Insert mode
Kana Natsuno
> The CTRL-O command takes you to Normal mode. If you then use a command enter
> Insert mode again it doesn't nest. Thus when typing "a<C-O>a" and then <Esc>
> takes you back to Normal mode, you do not need to type <Esc> twice.
There are several commands to enter Insert mode, for example, a, i, S,
cc.
So I think that Insert mode will never be nested even if such commands
are
used after <C-o>. But Vim seems not to behave so. For example:
$ vim -u NONE -N -e -s -c 'execute "normal!" "ifoo\<C-o>abar
\<Esc>Fb" | verbose echo getline(1, "$") line(".") col(".") | qall!'
['foobar'] 1 4
$ vim -u NONE -N -e -s -c 'execute "normal!" "ifoo\<C-o>ccbar
\<Esc>Fb" | verbose echo getline(1, "$") line(".") col(".") | qall!'
['barFb'] 1 5
$ vim -u NONE -N -e -s -c 'execute "normal!" "ifoo\<C-o>Sbar
\<Esc>Fb" | verbose echo getline(1, "$") line(".") col(".") | qall!'
['barFb'] 1 5
<C-o>a works as documented. But both <C-o>cc and <C-o>S don't work as
documented. They behave as if Insert mode is nested.
Furthermode, <C-o>cc and <C-o>S work as documented if they are
interactively
typed by user. The "nested" behavior only happens if <C-o>cc and <C-
o>S are
executed via :normal or :map.
Is this behavior intentional?
I confirmed it with the following :version:
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h_east
2012/4/8(Sun) 12:00:51 UTC+9 Kana Natsuno:
I fixed this. But It may be broke below comment's behavior...
(normal.c : 2019~)
/* This is a new edit command, not a restart. Need to
* remember it to make 'insertmode' work with mappings for
* Visual mode. But do this only once and not when typed and
* 'insertmode' isn't set. */
What do you think?
Regards,
--
Hirohito Higashi
Bram Moolenaar
Hirohito Higashi wrote:
This looks risky. We need to make sure this actually fixes the problem.
What is the problem really? Perhaps it's just a documentation
unclarity?
Keep in mind that typing something and executing a mapping or command
from the command line may work slightly different.
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