Weird cursor behaviour when typing brackets or parenthesis

[noncototient]

Environment

• OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32)
• vim: space-vim 0.5.0 @ 800

Problem Description

Typing brackets or parenthesis results in a strange cursor behaviour.

Whenever brackets or parenthesis are closed, the cursor jumps back to the first bracket and then jumps in front after the closing bracket.

I was not able to figure out which plugin results in this behaviour.

Also, weird cursor behaviour with lexima.vim (bracket/parenthesis autoclosing) plugin installed, where the cursor flicks between being a line and a block when deleting in insert mode.

[liuchengxu]

https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim/blob/master/layers/%2Bvim/programming/packages.vim#L13 , space-vim uses auto-pairs to obtain parentheses auto-closing when programming Layer enabled. Both auto-pairs and lexima.vim work well in my case, I can't reproduce your issue. Could you show me an example? And what's your Layers() function?

[noncototient]

Thanks for your quick reply!

Not sure what my layer is, I'm just using the default install. Couldn't find any docs on how to enable different layers just now when doing a quick search.

Take a look at this video, you can see how the cursor jumps back and forth: http://recordit.co/6OabGXCvaZ

[noncototient]

Also quick note. The brackets and parenthesis are not autoclosing. Have to close them manually.

[liuchengxu]

Try editing .spacevim in your home directory, use Layer command to enable programming Layer:

function! Layers()
    " Default Layers
    Layer 'fzf'
    Layer 'unite'
    Layer 'better-defaults'
    " Add programming Layer
    Layer 'programming'
endfunction

Then you need to run :so $MYVIMRC and :PlugInstall to install the neccessay plugins. Or you can reopen vim, it should install the missing plugins automatically.

Please refer to layer for more information.

[noncototient]

Added the programming layer and the issue is now fixed. Thank you so much @liuchengxu!

Loving this vim setup, man!

[zhenjun115]

auto-pairs will help you to complete bracket when you type the first left symbol, but it won't help you to complete broken bracket. It is not an issue.

[noncototient]

For anyone who is having the same issue even when using stock Vim, this behaviour is caused by showmatch functionality in Vim.

Check your .vimrc and see if its there, then remove it and the cursor should start acting normally again.

[tyy-x]

For anyone who is having the same issue even when using stock Vim, this behaviour is caused by showmatch functionality in Vim.

Check your .vimrc and see if its there, then remove it and the cursor should start acting normally again.

Thank you, this solved my problem.

[CFryerBrightSign]

I was experiencing very similar symptoms caused by colorscheme shine