Since yesterday, I have a problem when want to edit code in VSCode. Apparently, after changing focus within VSCode, say switching to the menu bar or a to different view and then coming back to the editor view, the cursor changed from the caret to a filled rectangle, and normal keyboard input is blocked. I need to do something like pressing the Escape key which on the first, second, or third try finally puts me into overwrite mode from which I have to switch to insert mode. This is a very annoying situation. Does anyone have a remedy for this?
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Filled rectangle could mean you pressed the insert key – Phiter Aug 22 '18 at 17:55
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@Phiter: switching insert/replace mode only works after pressing escape key at least once; the problem also occurs after something like pressing ctl-s, so it's likely that the key-mapping scheme became disfunct somehow. The problem is that I don't want to create a new scheme from scratch (to much lookup necessary -tl;dr). – hellerim Aug 23 '18 at 20:54
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Apparently, I happened somehow to switch to the vim schema. Once I became aware of this, I simply switched back to the VS schema which I'm used to, and everything works as desired.
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