Can't leave insert mode (pressing ESC) on GitHub Codespace

[MicaelJarniac]

Describe the bug
Can't leave insert mode (pressing ESC) on GitHub Codespace

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a GitHub repository (on https://github.com), like https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim
2. Press the dot . key (should take you to https://github.dev/[...], like https://github.dev/VSCodeVim/Vim)
3. Go to the Extensions tab
4. Search for vscodevim.vim and install it
5. Go back to the Explorer tab
6. Open any file (like README.md)
7. Click on the text so as to set focus to it
8. Verify normal Vim navigation works (h, j, k, l)
9. Enter insert mode (i)
10. Verify inserting text works
11. Try to leave insert mode by pressing ESC
12. Verify you're still in insert mode, and focus has been lost from the editor
13. Click back on the text to set focus to it again
14. Repeat steps 10 to 12 as many times as desired
15. Give up

Expected behavior
When in insert mode (or any mode, for that matter), pressing ESC shouldn't break focus from the editor.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Extension (VsCodeVim) version: v1.21.6
• VSCode version: 1.59.0
• OS: Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.134 Safari/537.36

[ShonFrazier]

Seems to me this is more "vscodevim.vim not functioning in any way in Codespaces"

[mefryar]

Thanks for filing this @MicaelJarniac. I'm having the same issue with Gitpod (e.g. https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/PEZ/get-started-with-clojure) so the problem is not unique to Codespaces.

[J-Fields]

Duplicate of #6826

[MicaelJarniac]

#6826 seems to have been fixed, but I'm still having the issue reported here.

[J-Fields]

@MicaelJarniac Are you sure the web app is capturing the <Esc> key press? Like, if you disable VSCodeVim, does <Esc> work as it should in VSCode?

[MicaelJarniac]

I believe the ESC key is working as it should without the extension:

On the GIF, I was typing on the editor, then bringing up that box with CTRL+SHIFT+p, typing on it, then hitting ESC to exit it, and the focus was correctly restored to the document, without me having to click it.

Might be worth mentioning, the browser I use is Vivaldi, based on Chromium.

[cyanff]

You most likely have a browser Vim emulator like Vimium, and it's capturing your inputs.

Solution

Disable Vimium on github.dev

Details

Why does the escape key work in the command palette but not the editor?

• Vimium stops capturing keys when you're in a text prompt.
• Vimium does not see the editor as a text prompt. -> Input is captured.
• Vimium sees the command palette as a text prompt. -> Input is released.

@MicaelJarniac

[MicaelJarniac]

@thisisphan I was not using any extension like that, so I don't think that's exactly what was going on, but thanks for the suggestion.

[dbanks12]

You most likely have a browser Vim emulator like Vimium, and it's capturing your inputs.

Solution

Disable Vimium on github.dev

Details

Why does the escape key work in the command palette but not the editor?

* Vimium stops capturing keys when you're in a text prompt.

* Vimium does not see the editor as a text prompt. -> Input is captured.

* Vimium sees the command palette as a text prompt. -> Input is released.

You just solved a tangentially related issue of mine where Vimium was capturing my <Esc> when trying to use any in-browser editors in their "vim mode" (HackMD in my case).

I know this is not directly related to this issue, but thank you ser! 🙏 @thisisphan