Easymotion does not work in the Vim plugin under Code-Server

• Web Browser: Chrome
• Local OS: Windows or ChromeOS
• Remote OS: Ubuntu 16.04
• Remote Architecture: x86_64
• code-server --version: 3.9.3 fe2dc2deb08e378069891b622bb62ad1d261d1b1

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install the VSCodeVim extension.
2. Edit settings.json by copying over the quick example from the VSCodeVim page.
3. Enter the easymotion shortcut (<space><space>w)

Expected

The plug-in should highlight first letters of the various words in the text to jump to. This is what happens if the same sequence of actions is performed on the vanilla VSCode (even with --extensions-dir=.local/share/code-server/extensions).

Actual

The cursor is moved one word forward (as if just w was pressed)

Notes

I do not see any errors in the browser console (and the server-side logs are probably irrelevant is vscodevim is a purely front-end extension). For starters it would be nice to check whether the issue is reproducible by someone else.

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: No

[joshuali925]

possibly related https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/7238

code server used to install extensions on the server side, but after some version (4.x?) vim is installed to the browser. Vim plugins won’t work anymore due to the issue above, not sure if it’s intentional. I sent a PR about 2 weeks ago and this issue has been there longer but neither got any attention yet

[chromakode]

I’m running into this too on code-server v4.4.0. I’ve tried both installing the extension locally and via code-server --install-extension – in both cases, the EasyMotion mode does not activate.