I noticed different styles. But I cannot relate to what I typed, maybe because I have many missed key strokes.
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We need more info to be able to help you– mattbJun 22 at 13:50
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Welcome to Vi and Vim!– husBJun 22 at 13:56
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Maybe my question is not clear? Maybe it's specific to the vscode vim extension?– samuelnihoulJun 22 at 13:57
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2@samuelnihoul It's certainly unclear to me! If you can't think of any way to describe it more precisely, perhaps a screenshot might help?– RichJun 22 at 14:22
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Vim allows the cursor shape to be customized. Depending on your system, Vim changes the cursor shape according to the mode it is in. By default, some of these are
- normal mode: a block cursor
- insert mode: a vertical bar
- operator pending mode: a "half cursor"
- replace mode: a horizontal bar (or "underscore")
To illustrate, Vim starts in normal mode. Hit i, and vim is now in insert mode. Now, any keypress gets inserted as text. Hit <Esc> to return to normal mode. Hit d, and vim is in operator pending mode, waiting for a motion to specify the text that this delete operator will work on. etc.
There are other modes too, such as visual, visualLine, to name a few. For more, see
:help vim-modes,:help mode-switching,:help 'showmode'.
For the vscode vim extension, the list of modes can be found here.
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@samuelnihoul Oh, I think that half-block cursor would be when vim is in operator-pending mode (eg. after one of
c,d,yis pressed, and vim is waiting for a motion/text-object). I have my edited my answer to include this detail. While I don't use the vscode vim extension, I believe this behavior work the same way in vscode vim.– husBJun 23 at 3:25