cursor does not change

[gdkrmr]

The following piece of text:

\begin{itemize}
\item item 1
\end{itemize}

1) in normal mode move the cursor to the first itemize 2) C-n to place second cursor on second itemize 3) ci} to change the environment type

everything works fine except the cosmetic issue that the cursor just does not change to the insert mode cursor.

[gabesoft]

There is a variable called evil-mc-enable-bar-cursor that controls whether the cursor should be change to a bar when in insert mode. That should be enabled by default though. Also, just to note that bar cursors only look good on Linux. On mac the bar is simulated with | character but that results in shifting all text to the right by one character. Myself, I only have it enabled on Linux.

[gdkrmr]

I am on linux and doing C-n i in the above example gives the insert mode cursors.

[gabesoft]

I'm not able to reproduce this. Just to be clear, so when you press i the cursor changes but not when you press ci}? What about the real cursor, does it change in both cases?

[gdkrmr]

yes, this is exactly the observed behavior, all cursors behave identically. I am using spacemacs on a very recent develop, maybe this makes the difference?