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I did cwCtrl-Ra at the beginning of a word to paste the content of register a in its place. And this, I thought, is done entering insert mode only once; or at least, never going back to normal mode.

It obviously worked, and I pressed Escape to go back to normal mode.

Then I realized I had picked the wrong register, so I hit u to undo the change.

But this only reverted part of the change, as I had done deiCtrl-Ra or cwEscapeaCtrl-Ra.

I've also verified that . also only replayed the Ctrl-Ra. Well, not quite because it enters insert mode before doing that.

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    I can't reproduce this in vim --clean (:let @a = 'my'<cr>Ithis is your word<esc>Fycw<C-r>a<esc>u). Perhaps How to debug my vimrc? I've seem some emulators work this way though, which is incorrect.
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    May 13, 2021 at 22:41

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It turns out, it's vim-peekaboo which is causing this behavior, and it is a known bug, filed in #30.

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