Re: Weird 's' command behavior.

Ok, so it's finally happened once again.
I was mistaken about 'cl' though, it behaves incorrectly, same as 's' does.
I've checked the mapping for either 's', 'c', 'l', 'cl'... I couldn't
really think of anything else related to this and no, none of them are
being mapped to anything. 'c<space>' does the same thing.
I'll try leaving this vim session open in case any of you think there's
something I could try to troubleshoot this. I've closed the files I was
working on and re-opened them with another vim session and that's
working correctly.



On 09/21/2015 10:55 PM, sycc wrote:
> Te respond to both tests:
> 1) I'm certain it's not an issue with me typing a 2 accidentally. Once
> this starts happening I've tried manually hitting the 's' a single
> time, tried 2s, 3s (as explained in the first email), 'cl' works as
> 's' should. Next time this happens I'll try mapping 'cl' to 's' as Bee
> suggested to see what happens. But yes, I'm certain that's not it
> because once it starts, it's persistent and doesn't go away until
> restarting vim. It is a possibility, however, that I might be entering
> some sequence that could cause this instead of some other regular
> commands, like 'noh' which I use quite frequently and have been
> mistyping some times because of the new keyboard.
> 2) I'm also certain it's not the keyboard. Once the problem starts,
> it's just that 's' command that behaves weirdly. If I go into insert
> mode I can type an "s" without trouble whatsoever, same thing in any
> other applications, terminal, etc.
>
> I'll keep my eyes open until it happens again and check if it's
> somehow been remapped.
>
> Thank you all for your suggestions!
>
>
> On 09/21/2015 10:39 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2015-09-21 19:21, sycc wrote:
>>> Given all that, I was left thinking I might be accidentally hitting
>>> some command sequence that would change its behavior, I'm breaking
>>> in a new keyboard and making quite a bit of mistakes while typing
>>> so it's a possibility I think
>> Given this new information, that would be my top suspicion. My
>> laptop keyboard has a column that sometimes double-strike or skip
>> (makes typing passwords a real joy; enough that I got a USB keyboard
>> to lessen the annoyance), and my netbook has tighter spacing and an
>> odd arrangement that frequently causes me to hit the wrong key until
>> my fingers have adapted to that particular keyboard. So with that in
>> mind, your attempts to type a "w" or "q" on your new key-board's
>> spacing might cause you to bump "2" to get the effect you're seeing.
>> Other possibilities might be a short in the keyboard or some sort of
>> gunk that's causing a neighboring key to trigger.
>>
>> So my next tests would be:
>>
>> - if you can take notice of whether you recently typed a "w" or "q"
>> preceding the "s", there might be some neighbor bumping. Using
>> "set showcmd" in your vimrc would show you if you have a pending
>> "2" as your count.
>>
>> - try using/borrowing/buying an alternate keyboard to see if the
>> issue persists. If it doesn't, it's likely a hardware issue
>>
>> -tim
>>
>>
>>
>

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