Re: Can Vim remember modes when switching between tabs?

That would probably be the simplest solution, since it's so simple to
enter the Insert mode when coming back to the tab.

-Andrei

On Apr 27, 4:22 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:45:29 PM UTC-5, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > I originally noticed this in MacVim, but turns out this happens in the
> > terminal as well. If you have two tabs open and enter the Insert mode
> > in one, then switch to the other tab (by clicking on it in GUI, for
> > example), the Insert mode is still active. This wreaks havoc when I'm
> > editing something and want to quickly switch to the other tab to
> > search/look up/etc, because the Normal mode keystrokes get inserted
> > into the buffer.
>
> > Any workarounds for this?
>
> How about just always leaving insert mode when leaving the current tab page?
>
> autocmd TabLeave * stopinsert

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