vim.remap command seems not working.

[millionbonus]

• Click thumbs-up 👍 on this issue if you want it!
• Click confused 😕 on this issue if not having it makes VSCodeVim unusable.

The VSCodeVim team prioritizes issues based on reaction count.

---

What happened:
A new remapping options feature "vim.remap" was mentioned in change log . Then I tried it with the setting keybinding as same as issue #1543.

{
        "key": "F3",
        "command": "vim.remap",
        "when": "editorTextFocus",
        "args": {
            "value": ["a", "b", "c", "<Esc>"]
        }
}

As issue #1543 described. F3 can enter Insert Mode, insert bc and quit Insert Mode. However it seems not working.

How to reproduce it:

1. Changed keybindings.json as below:

[ 
    {
        "key": "F3",
        "command": "vim.remap",
        "when": "editorTextFocus",
        "args": {
            "value": ["a", "b", "c", "<Esc>"]
        }
    }
]

2. Restart vscode.
3. Click text area to ensure that editor was getting focus.
4. Press F3

What did you expect to happen:
Press F3 in text area can enter Insert Mode, insert bc and quit Insert Mode.

What happened instead?
Nothing happened.

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.1
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.7.0
• OS: Windows 10

[xconverge]

closing in favor of #1543

[FrankFrankWei]

Does vim.remap work now? I've tried this but this command does not work too.

[solson]

This does work today. I just figured out I can use the following in keybindings.json to use ctrl+/ to clear search highlights:

    {
        "key": "ctrl+/",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && vim.active && !inDebugRepl",
        "command": "vim.remap",
        "args": {
            "commands": [
                {
                    "command": ":nohlsearch"
                }
            ]
        }
    }

The trick is that the args must take this shape (as defined here):

interface ICodeKeybinding {
  after?: string[];
  commands?: { command: string; args: any[] }[];
}

The example use of "value" was either outdated or pseudocode — instead we use { "after": ["d", "d"] } to bind to the vim keys dd or { "commands": [...] } to bind to vim commands, as in my example.