Vim: Unable to use key <leader> bound to in otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive

[iliekturtles]

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BUG REPORT

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.14.0
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.9.0
• OS: Windows 10 x64

What happened:
With the example line of text (cursor at the |) and the Settings.json fragment shown below the key combination f<space>;;,, leaves the cursor between "a" and "sentence" instead of "is" and "a".

|this is a sentence.

    "vim.leader": ",",
    "vim.otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        { "before": ["<leader>", "<leader>"], "after": [","] }
    ],

What did you expect to happen:
The cursor should be between "is" and "a".

[danielo515]

Im experiencing similar problems, or maybe is the same exact problem, since I don't fully understand what is happening.

In my case I have mapped leader key to space, and I want to use leader w to save, but this is not working. I am also using otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive.

Thanks

[danawoodman]

Recently this has broken completely. It appears otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive no longer works in any way. I have one command that just triggers on <space> even and now it doesn't work. This is all new breakage

    {
      "before": [
        "<space>"
      ],
      "after": [],
      "commands": [
        {
          "command": "editor.foldRecursively",
          "args": []
        }
      ]
    },

[jpoon]

I'm on my phone but please see the changelog for v0.13.0. We removed othermodeskeybindings in leiu of splitting it into two other configs

[danawoodman]

@jpoon Ah, I see that now. Funny, I even quickly looked at the CHANGELOG but missed that (cause i searched otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive not otherModesKeyBindings. Changing to "vim.normalModeKeyBindings" fixed it for me. Thanks 👍

[danawoodman]

This is probably safe to close?

[jpoon]

Seems like this has been resolved. Otherwise, take a look at https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim#debugging-remappings on how to debug remappings.

[iliekturtles]

Still isn't working for me with the updated settings.json fragment below. I tried all three different normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive entries and have debug output for the first shown below.

{
    "vim.leader": ",",
    "vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        { "before": ["<leader>", "<leader>"], "after": [","] }
        //{ "before": ["<leader>", ","], "after": [","] }
        //{ "before": [",", ","], "after": [","] }
    ],
}

[Extension Host] debug: ModeHandler: handling key=;.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=;. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive. loaded: before=,,,. after=,. 
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=;. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: ModeHandler: handling key=,.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=,. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive. loaded: before=,,,. after=,. 
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=,. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: ModeHandler: handling key=,.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=,,,. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive. loaded: before=,,,. after=,. 
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: find matching remap. keys=,,,. mode=Normal.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: Remapper: normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive. match found. before=,,,. after=,. command=undefined.
console.ts:134 [Extension Host] debug: ModeHandler: handling key=,.

[danawoodman]

Did you try "vim.normalModeKeyBindings”?

[iliekturtles]

@danawoodman Same result with "vim.normalModeKeyBindings", the mapping doesn't work.