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Vim Mode: Unexpected Behavior with Line Deletion and Yank/Undo Operations

Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — sid374
Activity 9 comments · opened Apr 7, 2025 · closed Jun 10, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (sid374, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Bug Description
I can use "dd" to delete a line in vim mode, but I cannot undo or paste that line if I accdentally delete. Also, DD deletes _the whole message_ rather than the forcefully wrapped line that I'm currently on which is quite confusing.

Environment Info

  • Platform: macos
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: ~0.2.64~ 0.2.90
  • Feedback ID: c894889d-5428-4a45-a009-98e0416db4c0

Errors

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9 Comments

chad-fossa · 1 year ago

I would say that "dd" deleting the whole message is especially confusing because the "home" key takes me to the beginning of the line correctly (not the start of the message)

sid374 contributor · 1 year ago

What's happening here is that we're deleting the "logical" line which is not the same as the visual line in your prompt input. The prompt input line wraps around automatically depending on the width of your terminal.

A "new line" is only created when you hit "shift+enter" (if you're on iterm2 and have run /terminal-setup successfully) or option-enter if you're on apple terminal.

I don't think deleting a "visual line" is quite right in this scenario, "logical" line seems to be the right boundary

chad-fossa · 1 year ago

imho it feels like whatever the decision, Normal Mode -> "I" or "A" (capitol) should match. Right now, "I" or "A" takes you to the start/end of a visual line, but "dd" deletes the logical line.

This would be significantly less annoying if we could just "p" or "P" the line back into place

chad-fossa · 1 year ago

I would say even that this is triple-confusing. Hitting "j" and "k" move up/down between the visual line which reinforces the fact that this is indeed a separate line we are on, but then DD removes the logical line.

chad-fossa · 1 year ago

Current Claude Version: 

➜  ~ claude --version
0.2.90 (Claude Code)

And actually even more confusing / worse is when I am on the last line of a multiple logical line message, then I go "up" a line and I hit "dd", it deletes the wrong line! I'm going to try and reproduce that...

Queue'd up message to send to claude (using enter while claude was working and typing, then repeating for each line):

do we want to have the .husky hooks created by some sort of "repository clone down" or "yarn install" event handler?  Or is it fine to just commit the .husky files directly?  Is that what the "prepare" script is for?
what the heck is a "_" directory?
I don't think we need the detect-changes script.  We should remove it and all references to it, it's just complicating things unnecessarily.
And let's remove the deprecated lines from the husky file also please
I think the github actions are not running possibly because we're doing a directory check -- that's likely unnecessary.

Then on the last line, going "up" to the "And let's remove the deprecated lines from the husky file also please" and hitting "dd" removes the "I think the github actions..." line instead!

This is very easy to reproduce:

  1. Open claude
  2. Enter insert mode
  3. paste the above multi-line message
  4. hit the "j" key -- first time goes to the start of the current line. Second time goes up to the "And let's remove..." line
  5. hit "dd" twice on the "And let's remove..." line
  6. Note that the "I think the github..." line is deleted instead!

Also, note that the arrow keys don't seem to work in normal mode (only in insert mode)

chad-fossa · 1 year ago

Note also that "d$" and "d^" operate on the visual line

sid374 contributor · 1 year ago

Thanks for the reports, these are super helpful. We'll look into this soon

sid374 contributor · 1 year ago

This should be fixed in the next release!

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