dot command does not work properly when inserting <Tab>/"/'/(/{/[

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BUG REPORT

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.x
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.7.0
• OS: Linux

Failure mode for tabs as spaces with the dot command:

What happened:

1. Press i to enter insert mode
2. Press <Tab> to insert tabs as spaces
3. Press <ESC> to exit insert mode
4. Press . to repeat the last command

What did you expect to happen:

• Insert another <Tab> (as spaces)

What happened instead:

• Cursor moves left one character and nothing was inserted

Failure mode for inserting " (double quote) with the dot command (the same behavior happens when inserting any of the following chars (, {, ', [):

What happened:

1. Go to the first line of an indented paragraph
2. Press i to enter insert mode
3. Press " (double quote), to insert a double quote
4. Press <ESC> to exit insert mode
5. Go down one line by pressing j
6. Press . to repeat the last command
7. Go down one line by pressing j
8. Press . to repeat the last command yet again

What did you expect to happen:

• Insert a " (double quote) to the beginning of the next line

What happened instead:

• Cursor moves left one character each time the "dot" command is used
  • This causes the insertion of the next " (double quote) to be in the wrong place

[Chillee]

The first part is a duplicate of #612 , which is also fixed by PR #1663 .

The second one is strange, I'll take a look later.

[Chillee]

This is the part of code that's causing issues for the second problem.
https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/blob/master/src/mode/modeHandler.ts#L895

It's not always true that vscode will insert a paired character. It depends on context.