Tree navigation does not work

[kryshac]

Describe the bug
If we set "workbench.list.keyboardNavigation" with "filter" or "highlight" does not work as long as the vim extension is active

Screenshots
without the vim extension:

with the vim extension:

[SimonAKing]

I'm having the same problem.
And, at the moment, there seems to be no configuration option for the 'sidebar' .

[asilvadesigns]

same. I thought this PR was supposed to fix this #3432

[RononDex]

Having the same issue here

[jpoon]

@joaomoreno

[joaomoreno]

The VIM extension defines custom keybindings for tree navigation, as always: hjkl, for example.

Because of that, you must toggle the tree filter mode. VIM configures / for that. So, you press / and then you type to filter/search, just like in VIM.

What the PR did was exactly that: it left VIM's old behavior in and allows you to use the filter feature, with the key /, since that's the least disrupting thing for VIM users.

@jpoon We might want to document this for VIM users.

[BosEriko]

I get this as well but random. When I close and open my VS Code it sometimes works normally for me.

[asilvadesigns]

@joaomoreno @jpoon documentation would be great, I'm still not sure if I have a problem with my setup or it just isn't working. Thanks for all the harrd work!

[coffenbacher]

How do I escape / filter mode and get back to hjkl? Generally I / for a file and find it, but then can't get back to regular browsing. Is esc the only option? That's okay, just a bit distant for me...

[jpoon]

Feel free to submit a PR updating our readme (maybe the FAQ section?). I am trying my hardest to adhere to https://twitter.com/jasonthepoon/status/1093375866929786880 :)

[damassi]

I've found that search works and then stops working, same with navigation and file / folder deletion. All in all I think the new Explorer (plus VSCode-Vim) has quite a few bugs to iron out before its stable. (I ended up downgrading to November release.)

[fengchaoyuan]

A problem for me is that after using toggleVim command, the explorer sidebar still uses the vim hjkl movement shortcuts and not the highlight search. Only after manually disabling the whole extension could I get the highlight search on without needing to use the / key.

[jpoon]

How do I escape / filter mode and get back to hjkl? Generally I / for a file and find it, but then can't get back to regular browsing. Is esc the only option? That's okay, just a bit distant for me...

@coffenbacher as far as i can tell, it's just esc for now.

A problem for me is that after using toggleVim command, the explorer sidebar still uses the vim hjkl movement shortcuts and not the highlight search. Only after manually disabling the whole extension could I get the highlight search on without needing to use the / key.

@fengchaoyuan Yes, that is by-design. We can't disable this sort of functionality with toggleVim as it's all defined in the package.json (ie. not in the js code). I've actually been wanting to remove toggleVim, as it's a bit confusing and the implementation is incomplete, but wasn't sure if people used it. Did you have any other intentions with using it?

Again, feel free to submit a PR to add this to our docs.

[jon301]

@jpoon actually I use toggleVim a lot when doing pair programming with other folks who don't use Vim
Please don't remove it it's quite useful :)

[RononDex]

I found that the issue with vim is that only shift+7 works in the explorer to activate the search.

Note that I am on a swiss-german keyboard, which has a slash on the numpad and one on shift+7.
Even with vim disabled, only shift+7 works for me