Dot repeat seems to be broken

[darvelo]

Describe the issue

First of all thank you so much for making this project! It's so essential to have real vim in an Xcode workflow. 👏🏽

Using dot repeat seems to only capture a part of the action. In the video below you can see I ciw to replace the word, then go a couple lines below and press . to repeat, but instead it deletes the word.

Screen.Recording.2023-06-24.at.5.04.11.PM.mov

How to reproduce?

1. Open a source file
2. ciw to replace a word
3. Use . to repeat the action on some other word

[mickael-menu]

Unfortunately, it's a side effect of having the Insert mode handled by Xcode instead of Neovim (for performance reasons, and to improve the auto-completion, auto-indentation, etc.).

A workaround is to explicitly set the input to Neovim when in Insert mode. You can do that with :SVSetInputNvim.

Personally, I have a binding on C-n that I use after doing ciw.

imap <C-n> <Cmd>SVSetInputNvim<CR>

Alternatively, you can override ciw to toggle the Neovim input on-the-fly. You will need to do that for all the mappings you use.

noremap ciw <Cmd>SVSetInputNvim<CR>ciw

Note that by using SVSetInputNvim in Insert mode, the Xcode auto-completion won't be optimal.

[mickael-menu]

More info about this issue: https://github.com/mickael-menu/ShadowVim/blob/6b6e5de64573a3c1f4d24d17b78cfff1899c0c0f/Documentation/Research/Mediator.md#insert-mode

[darvelo]

Thank you, this was very helpful. I started adding overrides for the movements like ciw and they're working great.