Visual block mode doesn't navigate with gj/gk

[Cody157]

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Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): Bug Report

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.2
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.8.3
• OS: Windows 7 Professional SP 1

What happened:
Trying to navigate visual block mode with gj and gk resulted in no vertical movement or selection.

<ctrl-v>gj

What did you expect to happen:
The selection should now include the same block in the following line.

This happens regardless of whether it's navigating between multiple distinct lines, or a single, long word-wrapped line.

[nivv]

This seems to work for me, also I've re-mapped j to gj and k to gk like below:

    "vim.otherModesKeyBindings": [
        {
            "before": ["j"],
            "after": ["g", "j"]
        },
        {
            "before": ["k"],
            "after": ["g", "k"]
        }
    ]

[Cody157]

@nivv - Are you sure you're testing this with visual block mode, and not either plain visual or visual line modes? Both of those work for me, but visual block doesn't. I had the same keybindings, which is how I found the problem, and had to disable them to use visual block mode at all.

It's worth noting this used to work just fine, I don't know exactly what version it was where the problem started though.

This also on a different computer with some version updates,
Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.13.1
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.8.6
• OS: OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6

[Chillee]

Yeah this is a consequence of some changes we made to visual block mode to fix some other bugs (I think).

I don't think it should be too hard to fix.

[orn688]

Has there been any progress on this? I'm making the switch from vim to VS Code and I love it so far, but this fix would be really nice to have. I'd be willing to work on it myself if it really is fairly easy and if anyone can provide some starting guidance, because I have minimal experience with applications of this sort and zero experience with TypeScript.