Vim: file modified when using `jj` as <Esc>

Created on 12 Feb 2018 · 6Comments · Source: VSCodeVim/Vim

BUG REPORT:

What happened:
when using jj as (or other two keys combination) on not modified file it becomes modified

What did you expect to happen: keep file unmodified

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Remap to jj
open file
go to insert mode, press jj

file not changed but vscode says it's modified

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Source

prog666

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All 6 comments

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kuzyo on 12 Feb 2018

Not entirely sure how we could solve this. The extension will temporarily insert the jj to the text document and then when it figures out it's a remapping, delete the jj and instead use an <Esc>. However, since we did actually modify the file, VSCode marks it as dirty.

There's no way as an extension to tell VSCode to state this file isn't actually dirty, and I doubt that they would ever expose such a thing.

jpoon on 19 Feb 2018

Same root cause as https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/565. Let's use that issue instead to track.

jpoon on 26 Feb 2018

EDIT

nope, my solution below isn't working correctly.

obsolete solution

my current way to solve this is to set `jk` to:

  "vim.insertModeKeyBindings": [
    {
      "before": ["j", "k"],
      "after": ["<Esc>", "u", "u"]
    }
  ],

while `u` stands for `undo`:

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
    {
      "before": ["u"],
      "after": [],
      "commands": [
        {
          "command": "undo",
          "args": []
        }
      ]
    }
]

hope this helps