default app level keyboard shortcut not working under visual mode

[kindadolf]

Thanks so much for the contribution. I love it overall. I do have an issue with triggering some useful keyboard shortcuts that originally comes with some apps. for example, in PowerPoint, if I select a word using the following vim command 'vw'. It goes from normal to visual mode as expected. However, If I now want to bold the selected text by pressing 'Ctrl + b', it doesn't work as expected. I believe it works under normal mode if I choose to ignore all unused keys in your setting. but there is no such corresponding setting under visual mode. Can you please enable that?

[rcmdnk]

It seems difficult problem because
Ctrl+b is an one of common move shortuct keys of Vim.
In Normal/Visual modes, these movement shortcuts keys are enabled.

Maybe we can implement a key bind which disable vim_ahk for one time.
(Like Ctrl+o to enable normal mode in Vim, but reversed)

Although it may take a time to see such a new function,
if you want to fix a.s.a.p.,
here is a manual fix procedure:

• Add following lines at the top of vim_ahk/lib/vim_move.ahk:

#If WinActive("ahk_exe POWERPNT.exe") and (Vim.State.StrIsInCurrentVimMode("Visual"))
^b:: Send, ^b
#If

This overwrites Ctrl+b behavior in Visual mode on PoerPoint.
If you want to enable Ctrl+b to change the bold status for all apps,
please try following code:

#If  Vim.IsVimGroup() and (Vim.State.StrIsInCurrentVimMode("Visual"))
^b:: Send, ^b
#If

[kindadolf]

Thanks for the suggestion and explanation, really appreciate it. Before seeing you comments, I ended up just commenting out the ^b shortcut entirely at file vim_move.ahk. I decided to do that since I usually use gg to go to the top anyway. (let me know if ^b does anything different from gg though)