Multicursors and fd

[gdkrmr]

Typing fd gets you out of whatever mode you are in. This is nice if you work in the terminal and there is a delay when typing [ESC]. When having multiple cursors, this does not work as intended, you actually get out of insert mode but on all secondary cursors "fd" is being inserted. Where do I start looking to fix this?

[lebensterben]

https://develop.spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION.html#escaping

[lebensterben]

According to Lewand, arranged from most to least common in appearance, the letters are: etaoinshrdlcumwfgypbvkjxqz

xz is a good choice

[gdkrmr]

the issue is not the choice of "fd" the issue is that if I use multiple cursors in insert mode and press "fd", the letters fd get inserted into the document at the secondary cursors.

[lebensterben]

Do you use evil-mc or multiple-cursor?
How to reproduce this?

[gdkrmr]

I am using evil-mc. To reproduce:

• enable multiple-cursor layer and use vim mode
• Open a file
• move your cursor to any symbol that appears more than once
• Press C-n as often as you want to create multiple cursors
• Go to insert mode, type something
• Press fd to get out of insert mode.
  Result:
  All your cursors will be in normal mode but the secondary cursors will have typed either f or fd.

[lebensterben]

Try

(setq evil-escape-inhibit-functions '((lambda () evil-mc-cursor-state)))

[gdkrmr]

If you use the multiple-cursors layer, then C-n should be bound to evil-mc-make-and-goto-next-match [1]. evil-paste-pop-next should be bound to C-k [2].

[1]

spacemacs/layers/+misc/multiple-cursors/README.org

Line 80 in bc51b6a

| ~C-n~ | evil-mc-make-and-goto-next-match |

[2]

spacemacs/layers/+distributions/spacemacs-bootstrap/packages.el

Line 235 in 95280d1

("C-k" evil-paste-pop-next)

[lebensterben]

If you use the multiple-cursors layer, then C-n should be bound to evil-mc-make-and-goto-next-match [1]. evil-paste-pop-next should be bound to C-k [2].

[1]

spacemacs/layers/+misc/multiple-cursors/README.org

Line 80 in bc51b6a

| ~C-n~ | evil-mc-make-and-goto-next-match |

[2]

spacemacs/layers/+distributions/spacemacs-bootstrap/packages.el

Line 235 in 95280d1

("C-k" evil-paste-pop-next)

it was shadowed by another package. dear my new reply

[gdkrmr]

This is actually a known problem gabesoft/evil-mc#41 and people tried to fix it #12159

[lebensterben]

Try

(setq evil-escape-inhibit-functions '((lambda () evil-mc-cursor-state)))

@gdkrmr

Does this fix it?

[gdkrmr]

This disables evil-escape when having multiple cursors, right? It works, but is not what I want.

[lebensterben]

you haven't tried it.
Evil-escape is still working

[lebensterben]

to be clear, this is not a bug of Spacemacs,
and a workaround is provided.
so I'm closing this.

[gdkrmr]

to be clear, this is not a bug of Spacemacs,

agreed

and a workaround is provided.

the workaround doesn't work for me. fd is supposed to switch out of insert mode with multiple cursors, the workaround disables evil-escape instead.