Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Terminal UIArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.247,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
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.