Indent in VIM mode deselects

Bug Report
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Describe the Bug

In VIM mode, when you select a block of text and then do Shift-< to dedent or Shift-> to indent, Cursor deselects the block so you can’t do multiple indents/dedents in a row.

Steps to Reproduce

Use VIM mode, select text, try to indent or dedent multiple times.

Expected Behavior

I expect it to not deselect the text so you can indent/detent multiple times.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.44.9
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: 316e524257c2ea23b755332b0a72c50cf23e1b00
Date: 2024-12-26T21:58:59.149Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0

Additional Information

It’s frustrating.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, out of interest, does this happen in VS Code as well, or does this feature work as intended there?

3

I ran Visual Studio Code and installed VsCodeVim from the extensions manager. And that has the same issue.

4

Going on the theory that this is the same plugin, I added this to my settings.json:

    "vim.visualModeKeyBindings": [
        {
            "before": [
                ">"
            ],
            "commands": [
                "editor.action.indentLines"
            ]
        },
        {
            "before": [
                "<"
            ],
            "commands": [
                "editor.action.outdentLines"
            ]
        },
    ]

And it works great!

5

Glad to hear you figured this out!