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I am trying to find out the word count in selected text in neovim. For some reason, g_ctrl-g works perfectly fine in normal mode, but when I try it in visual mode after selecting some text, nothing happens. I have confirmed that the key combo has not been remapped to anything else.

I don't know how to diagnose the problem. My config is heavily modified now but I based it on https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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  • It should work :-) At least it works on my end. Maybe the result is overridden by some message. I would try :set cmdheight=2. What is the result of :verbose vmap g<C-g>? Does it work when you start Neovim with nvim -u NONE -i NONE or with nvim --clean?
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Commented Jul 17 at 17:53
  • Ah you got it. Setting the cmdheight to 2 shows it above -- VISUAL --. With nvim --clean it shows briefly instead of -- VISUAL -- without modifying the cmdheight. I assume this is because of some plugin?
    – K G
    Commented Jul 17 at 20:26
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    @KG it's likely a plugin is the culprit (triggering a redraw or something, possibly). See How to debug my vimrc. Even with showmode on in Vim, v_g_CTRL-G stays for several seconds for me
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Jul 17 at 20:43
  • Ok I figured out that the issue is with which-key. Upgrading it seems to have solved it.
    – K G
    Commented Jul 18 at 8:33

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The message could be hidden by the --VISUAL‐- message.

To avoid it you could give more room to the message area with:

set cmdheight=2
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    Yes that is indeed the problem. Would you know how to make it work without increasing thecmdheight?
    – K G
    Commented Jul 17 at 23:38
  • If a plugin triggers a redraw <C-l> the message is gone forever :-|. I believe there is nothing to do :-|
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Commented Jul 18 at 6:04
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    Ok I figured out that the issue is with which-key. Upgrading it seems to have solved it.
    – K G
    Commented Jul 18 at 8:33
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    Thanks for the feedback! Welcome to Vim :-)
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Commented Jul 18 at 8:57

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