left arrow after end key goes to beginning of the line

[subhakarks]

Describe the bug I am this weird behavior. I have below text.

• cursor is in line 2 (this is line two)

• press o to insert below. Cursor goes to position marked X below

• press up-arrow. cursor goes beginning of line this is line two

• press End key. Cursor goes to end of line two

• Now press left-arrow, cursor goes to the beginning of the line instead of moving back by one char.

• this is line one
  this is line two
  X

• This happens most of the times. Doesn't happen sometimes.

• I did not see any errors when VIM log-level is set to DEBUG.

• I can see that extension.vim_left is the command when left arrow is pressed. looks like its going last position in the jump list?

• Extension (VsCodeVim) version: 1.26.1

• VSCode version: 1.83.1

• OS: Mac OSX Ventura 13.5.2, Apple M2 Max

  Version: 1.83.1 (Universal)
  Commit: f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc
  Date: 2023-10-10T23:46:55.789Z
  Electron: 25.8.4
  ElectronBuildId: 24154031
  Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
  Node.js: 18.15.0
  V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
  OS: Darwin arm64 22.6.0

[TryerGit]

This seems to be a known issue. I opened the same issue here: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/8630

While I believe 1.26.1 was supposed to fix this, perhaps not. I had to go back to 1.25.2 available at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim and manually install it to avoid the issue.

[trobriander]

This bug is still around. I could not figure out the cause until I came here. It really messes up typing muscle memory and speed.

Can happen at any position along a line:

• get into insert mode (i) anywhere along a line
• hit END
• hit left arrow (goes back to last spot in insert mode)

And you're right: it doesn't do it all of the time. Things seem fine after doing a window reload (CMD-Shift-P, choose Developer: Window reload) but then it comes back after a while.