Cannot escape Insert mode on Ubuntu PhpStorm IdeaVim

Question

I've downloaded the evaluation version of PhpStorm 2019.2.1, and added + enabled IdeaVim.

It worked fine for a little while, but now once I enter Insert mode, I can't exit by hitting Escape. If I uninstall and reinstall IdeaVim, it returns to Normal mode, until I hit i (or similar) and then I'm back to the same problem.

No idea what else to try, short of re-installing PhpStorm.

Is that a 'c' or ctrl? Etiher way just outputs "ccccccc[[[[" ;-), and does nothing. — JonRed, Sep 14 '19 at 08:05
Yeah, I meant `ctrl-[` :) Do you have anything special in your `~/.ideavimrc`? — Feedforward, Sep 14 '19 at 08:16
Must be https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-1752, it's fixed in master branch — lena, Sep 14 '19 at 17:20
I don't actually have _any_ ~/.ideavimrc yet. Hadn't got around to adding the few things I normally keep in it. While that issue has the same appearance, I can't actually switching back to normal mode - even with the line cursor. — JonRed, Sep 15 '19 at 01:41
However, this https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-1685 does look a lot like it. — JonRed, Sep 15 '19 at 01:56

JonRed · Answer 1 · 2019-09-17T00:06:51.490

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This is not a great answer, but for now this worked for me:

Download version 0.51 from here https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim/versions
Uninstall the current version of IdeaVim in PhpStorm
Install the 0.51 from disk

Hope this helps someone in the interim.

edited Sep 17 '19 at 00:06

answered Sep 15 '19 at 02:01

JonRed

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