Vim: `yaw` shifts the cursor in certain scenarios

[westim]

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Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): BUG REPORT

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.18.1
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.10.5
• OS: Win10

What happened:
In specific cases, the yaw command will shift the cursor to the left. This case appears to be when the current word is preceded by a space _and_ not followed by a space.

The following case causes the cursor to shift, where | denotes the cursor position:
Start: await |vscode.window
End: await| vscode.window

The following starting scenarios were tested, and do not cause shifting:

• await(|vscode.window
• await |vscode window

Similar commands yiw and yw do not exhibit this behavior.

What did you expect to happen:
I expected the cursor to remain in the same location.

How to reproduce it:
Run the scenarios detailed above.

[jpoon]

Closed with https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/pull/2171

[jpoon]

Actually, I'm not sure if you addressed this @westim in your PR.

[Chillee]

@jpoon I think the 2 are a bit different. The PR addresses ysaw and yaw space padding. This issue is about cursor movement for yaw.

[westim]

@jpoon that's correct; this was found while I was trying to write tests associated with that PR.

[J-Fields]

@westim This seems to be the behavior of vim 8.1.22?

[J-Fields]

Yeah, I don't think this is a bug. Closing.