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Claude Code v2.1.219 ·

Vim NORMAL mode passes bare left arrow on an empty prompt to the editor

In vim normal mode, pressing left arrow on an empty prompt now works as expected.

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Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.219,
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What

The left-arrow gesture on an empty prompt did not work while idle in vim NORMAL mode, because only unshifted up and down were forwarded to the underlying input.

Details
  • The vim-mode key router now also forwards left when the buffer text is empty
  • This is the gesture guarded by the "Press ← again" arming notification, key left-arrow-again-for-agents
  • The arming state gained an explicit disarm helper that clears the timer and removes that notification; not every call site of the disarm could be determined
  • The guard itself reads tengu_left_arrow_editing_guard, fallback true
Evidence

left-arrow-again-for-agents

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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tengu_left_arrow_editing_guard Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.219: on

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