Vim for VSCode does not work correctly occasionally for moving cursor to previous or next position (ctrl + i / o)

Question

One of my most beloved features in Vim is using ctrl + o for moving to recent previous positions, and ctrl + i to restore (moving forward) the cursor.

For some reason in my VSCode this would not work correctly all the time. Sometimes the cursor jumps to a totally wrong position, that I might have visited before, but seems totally random.

I'm wondering does anyone else have experienced this before, is this maybe a setting? I'm running on vscodevim 1.23.2 which seems to be the latest.

Thank you

have you filed an issue at the extension repo – rioV8 Sep 03 '22 at 15:57 — rioV8, Sep 03 '22 at 15:57

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '22 at 08:58

For anyone coming across this, this seems to be a known problem discussed in the issues section of the repo

One possible workaround is to override the keybindings to use VSCodes own going forward/backward by this keybinding:

{
    "key": "ctrl+o",
    "command": "workbench.action.navigateBack"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+i",
    "command": "workbench.action.navigateForward"
},

this works well after a short testing.

Vim for VSCode does not work correctly occasionally for moving cursor to previous or next position (ctrl + i / o)

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