Issues with normal execute sequence

[AckslD]

I'm getting some strange behaviour when trying to escape characters through :execute "normal cmd" which seems to be caused by whichkey as far as I can tell.

If I run:

:execute "normal! vw\<Esc>"

the cursor moves one word forward and importantly normal mode is active after the command. However the strange thing is that if I omit the exclamation mark I'm left in visual mode after the command.

Furthermore I tried to just disable the presets.operators for now but if seems that the mapping is still there. Ie map v gives

n  v           * <Cmd>lua require("which-key").show("v", {mode = "n", auto = true})<CR>

I tried to disable it as follows:

require("which-key").setup{
    presets = {
        operators = false,
    }
}

[folke]

I think I know what's going on here.

You probably have other keymaps defined under v. So which-key will still trigger for those.

<esc> is used to exit which-key, and that key won't be fed, so you'll remain in visual mode.

I'll see if I can fix this.

The fix would be to only interprete <esc> as exit which-key when which-key is actually visible and to feed it back in other cases.

[AckslD]

I see! That makes sense! Thanks for your reply :) There are indeed some other mappings starting with v, not sure where they come from though haha:

n  vaÞ         * <Nop>
n  viÞ         * <Nop>
n  vÞ          * <Nop>
n  v           * <Cmd>lua require("which-key").show("v", {mode = "n", auto = true})<CR>  

[AckslD]

Btw, which key still shows up with info about visual mode commands after pressing v even if I disabled the operator plugin. Is that intended behaviour or a bug?

[folke]

those <nop> ones are also which-key, but they shouldn't be there in case you disabled the operators.

[folke]

yeah, probably not. That's what I was thinking. Might be a bug indeed

[AckslD]

Hold on, I think it's my mistake, it should be:

require("which-key").setup{
    plugins = {
        presets = {
            operators = false,
        },
    },
}

right?

[folke]

yep, that should work. Just tested it

[AckslD]

@folke is this fixed? :)

[folke]

Oh sorry, I only read the last comments. Not fixed :)

I'll see if I can fix it in a bit.

[imkerberos]

I focused this issue. My error sequence is 'a'. show you the output of command ":nmap a".

nosaÞ nosa lua require("which-key").show("a", {mode = "", auto = true})

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