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Claude Code v2.1.247 ·

Vim mode passes the cursor around instead of stashing it

Vim mode always knows your cursor now, so some keys no longer silently do nothing.

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What

The vim keybinding hook no longer keeps the text buffer in a stored reference; the buffer and cursor are handed into key handling, mode switching, insert-exit and dot-repeat as arguments. Handlers that used to give up when the stored reference was empty always have a cursor now, and entering visual mode uses the caller's offset directly instead of falling back to zero. Insert-mode remap detection and its telemetry are unchanged.

Evidence

cancelPendingRemap: ie,

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

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