Vsvim: Disable Intellisense and auto formatting during macro recording

Created on 24 Jun 2015 · 8Comments · Source: VsVim/VsVim

In issue #1393 Jared mentioned that it might be a good idea to disable Intellisense while recording Vim macros. I would very much like to see that! VsVim became my main editor when Visual Studio's own macros were removed. I prefer the Vim macro solution anyway, but it is often complicated by Visual Studio's Intellisense and auto formatting.

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damianpowell

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Just sent a PR to implement this behavior. It's still a bit on the experimental side but playing around with it locally it seems to work well.

For now the clean macro recording behavior is off by default. It is a bit of a behavior change and I suspect some will be a bit surprised if they accidentally trigger macro recording (i do it at least twice a day) and suddenly a lot of Visual Studio features stop working. May revisit this decision in a future release though.

This behavior, dubbed Clean Macros, can be enabled through the Options page or by adding the following to your vsvimrc file:

set vsvim_cleanmacros

jaredpar on 27 Oct 2015

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This is something I definitely would like to implement. Part of the problem has been that it wasn't really feasible to disable intellisense + auto formatting. It can be done in some languages but not all and plugins like R# complicate things a bit since they have their own implementations.

I think I should start work on this though, at least as an experiment, to see how well it would work out in practice. If I could at least get mainline scenarios working it would be a big improvement.

jaredpar on 24 Jun 2015

Fabulous! Thanks, Jared.

damianpowell on 24 Jun 2015

One thing that I will probably try, is to add a similar option for macros as I did for normal dot repetitions here https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/pull/1552.

This would support using intellisense completion during the macro playback. However the auto formatting might still be a problem.

fredizzimo on 24 Jun 2015

This feature would be huge for me in C# (using R#). I would use VS for a lot more of my general editing if it supported macros better than the alternatives (WebStorm does a pretty good job with them, zero support in Atom).

cchamberlain on 2 Aug 2015

Just sent a PR to implement this behavior. It's still a bit on the experimental side but playing around with it locally it seems to work well.

This behavior, dubbed Clean Macros, can be enabled through the Options page or by adding the following to your vsvimrc file:

set vsvim_cleanmacros

jaredpar on 27 Oct 2015

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Awesome!

cchamberlain on 28 Jan 2016

This setting only works with visual studio intellisense but not resharper intellisense :(

bradphelan on 21 Dec 2016

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I second this; ReSharper does not play very nice with VsVim (e.g. . to repeat commands), but really macro recording is just not working most of the time; I'm usually switching to gVim to do macros of any kind, but multi-files macro become very difficult to do.

I see there was a discussion on this a few years back with JetBrains: https://resharper-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206657885-Detecting-and-dismissing-Intellisense-from-an-extension - I was wondering if you finally found a way to disable ReSharper completely during macros, OR to actually replay ReSharper actions?