motion does not work properly in visual mode

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new file with neovim plugin enabled
2. type iabc<Esc>yy99p to insert 100 lines of abc
3. type V
4. type M, or L, or <ctrl-f>, or <ctrl-d>

Expected behavior: Lines from line 2 to the middle or last line of the screen should be selected.

Actual behavior: Only line 2 is selected, while the cursor is at the middle or the last line of the screen.

[ssipos90]

+1, I use shift+V (visual line) with ctrl+d or ctrl+u for half page selection most of the times.

Only the viewport is moving, not the cursor.

[theol0403]

It looks like this is because vscode intercepts these commands and does not update neovim after scrolling. The reason vscode intercepts these commands instead of delegating to neovim is, according to @asvetliakov, “cursor jitter” and other problems.

However, when I disable the interceptions, it actually seems to work alright.

Here is how you can do this:

    {
        "key": "ctrl+d",
        "command": "-vscode-neovim.ctrl-d",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.ctrlKeysNormal && neovim.init && neovim.mode != 'insert'"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+u",
        "command": "-vscode-neovim.ctrl-u",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.ctrlKeysNormal && neovim.init && neovim.mode != 'insert'"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+f",
        "command": "-vscode-neovim.ctrl-f",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.ctrlKeysNormal && neovim.init && neovim.mode != 'insert'"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+b",
        "command": "-vscode-neovim.ctrl-b",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.ctrlKeysNormal && neovim.init && neovim.mode != 'insert'"
    },
    {
        "command": "vscode-neovim.send",
        "key": "ctrl+d",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.init && neovim.mode != insert || neovim.recording",
        "args": "<C-D>"
    },
    {
        "command": "vscode-neovim.send",
        "key": "ctrl+u",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.init && neovim.mode != insert || neovim.recording",
        "args": "<C-U>"
    },
    {
        "command": "vscode-neovim.send",
        "key": "ctrl+f",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.init && neovim.mode != insert || neovim.recording",
        "args": "<C-F>"
    },
    {
        "command": "vscode-neovim.send",
        "key": "ctrl+b",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && neovim.init && neovim.mode != insert || neovim.recording",
        "args": "<C-B>"
    },

Disabling H/M/L is a bit trickier, because it is defined here: https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim/blob/ba50a353ee5b188d963be7561803f96a587b733f/vim/vscode-scrolling.vim#L25-L30

Adding this to the bottom of my init.vim seems to have solved it:

  unmap H
  unmap M
  unmap L

However, I’m not sure if that works 100% of the time, because it seems like in some cases unmapping does not seem to have an effect (#631). Let me know if it works for you.