Deleting in Muticursor results in unexpected behavior?

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Deleting in Multicursor snippets seem to not work. The cursor collapses in the first instance, and doesn't delete in the second instance. See video.

https://media.giphy.com/media/1jZuNl4WPuNory4awF/giphy.gif

This is the LaTeX snippet, I've tried replacing later occurrences with $1 as well. The same behavior occurs.

"Multicursor placeholder": {
        "prefix": "test",
        "body": "${1:x} ${1:x} some text ${1:x} other text",
        "description": "breaking multicursor"
    },

When expanding the snippet, and trying to replace the x character with a y, deleting pressing backspace does not delete the input in the later occurrences of

Thanks for trying @Mark I figured out it's an issue with the vim extension, not VS Code. — lioumens, Feb 10 '19 at 23:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '19 at 23:14

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For anyone else running into this issue, it's a known issue in the vscodevim extension.

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1946

The workaround right now is is ctrl-backspace instead of backspace.

answered Feb 10 '19 at 23:14

lioumens

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