Referencing Mark in VIM SED command fails to apply command correctly

[disaac]

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What did you do?

Created a mark in a file then referenced the mark inside of a VIM SED command.

Exact Keys Entered:

# in VIM normal mode created a mark a
ma
# Navigated below the mark several lines down 
jjjj
# attempted to reference the mark in a VIM SED replacement
# was trying to replace the beginning of each line with a comment
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'a,.s/^/#/g

What did you expect to happen?

I expected the VIM sed command to utilize the mark 'a' as a starting point for the replacement.

What happened instead?

No changes were made to the text between the mark 'a' and the line the command was entered at.

NOTE When using VIM the above command results in the expected behavior. The issue is only seen in Visual Code Studio with the VsCodeVim plugin.

NOTE I verified that the VsCodeVim SED command works fine with Global replacements and the Mark functionality works as expected for navigation. The issue seems isolated to referencing the mark inside of a sed command only.

Technical details:

• VSCode Version: 1.4.0 (1.4.0)
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.1.7
• OS: OSX 10.11.6 (15G31)

[johnfn]

Interesting - this is a feature I didn't even know existed. Thanks for the report, @disaac!

[rebornix]

Well while implementing #525, I've already added the basic mark support '< and '>, so the logic of supporting user-created marks should be similar but requires more consideration.

Anyone who wants to contribute a full-complete story instead of bug fixing can take this one.

[rebornix]

This one is already fixed I suppose :)