assistant panel interacts weirdly with vim modes.

[kurtbuilds]

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There are a few bugs I currently see when using vim mode and using the Assistant panel.

1. While in insert mode in Editor panel, use a hotkey to open the assistant panel. For me, focus appears to get "lost", and I have to click into the panel to start typing.
2. While in normal mode, a hotkey does correctly open and focus the assistant panel. However, it opens the panel in normal mode. I would expect the panel to be opened in insert mode. (As one data point that this is the correct/expected behavior, the inline assistant has been designed this way, where, regardless of editor mode (normal or insert), the inline assistant will be in insert mode when opened.

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[ConradIrwin]

I cannot reproduce 1 by being in a buffer then typing i cmd-?. t seems to land in normal mode correctly? Are you doing something different?

2. Is an interesting idea. The inline assistant doesn't support vim mode at all; so this would be a bit different in that it would be lvim-enabled buffer that defaults to insert mode; which seems a bit odd. (That said, I think it's common to just use that buffer as a chat, so it may be fine...)