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Search/replace (:%s/text/new text \t) to insert tab character (\t), inserts literal "\t" instead

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BUG REPORT

What happened: I used the command in normal mode:

:%s/text-a/text-b\t>/g

Instead of of tab character the literal “\t” was inserted after “text-b”.

What did you expect to happen: A tab character should have been inserted after “text-b”. I tested in a normal vim and it works.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Just use the example above

Environment:

Extension Version: 0.11.3
OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.16299
VSCode version: 1.21.1

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (3 by maintainers)

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xconvergecommented, Apr 1, 2018

FYI you can switch to use neovim for these sorts of commands in the future, you might have better luck!

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim#neovim-integration

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knetworxcommented, May 25, 2020

For posterity: Large GIF (574x310)

VS Code Details: Version: 1.45.1 Commit: 5763d909d5f12fe19f215cbfdd29a91c0fa9208a Date: 2020-05-14T08:33:47.663Z Electron: 7.2.4 Chrome: 78.0.3904.130 Node.js: 12.8.1 V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0 OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0

vscodevim version: 1.14.5