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After launching a terminal inside vim via :terminal, vim doesn't put curosr in the right position after pressing i in normal mode. As seen in the following picture, the cursor is put at the end of the line while I expected it to be placed right after "word2".

cursor not in the right position when switching from normal mode to insert mode

How can I tell vim to behave as I have expected?

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:terminal runs another process (program). That process has its own cursor. When you enter terminal-normal mode, you control Vim's cursor, not the program's one. And after you return to terminal-insert you're again talking to that program and moving its cursor. So this is absolutely expected and works as it should.

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    I see. But what if I want vim to sync the launched process's cursor position with vim's cursor postion? Sometimes I need to modify a command in the terminal, so I want to jump right to the expected position after switching from terminal-normal mode to terminal-insert mode.
    – Coiby
    May 29, 2020 at 1:49
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    @Coiby You can modify picture on screen, but you can't modify process' internal state from Vim. This is nonsense. Terminal-normal is intended for yanking text into Vim, not for anything else.
    – Matt
    May 29, 2020 at 4:47
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    The background is I want to use vim' terminal to replace tmux or other terminals so copy and paste among terminals would be very easy. So I still need the help of vi mode in bash/zsh to move the 2rd cursor.
    – Coiby
    May 30, 2020 at 1:39

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