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Jony
Jony

Reputation: 1779

Intellij 14 weird editor/cursor behaviour

I just upgraded my Intellij IDEA to version 14, but I have the problem that my cursor in the editor window is acting "different". It starts of in a sort of protected mode, which looks like the insert mode but it isn't, where I can't insert anything. After pressing some keys like a it changes back to normal except that sometimes it goes in a selection mode and by that I mean if I hit backspace instead of deleting the character as expected it just selects/highlights it. I find this behavior really annoying and I hope one of you can help me.

Additional Information:

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Intellij 14.0

Please ask if i can provide any additional information which might be helpful.

Upvotes: 62

Views: 33470

Answers (8)

Jony
Jony

Reputation: 1779

Disabling/Uninstalling the ideaVim plugin seemed to fix the problem for me. The plugin description hints that you can configure it via a configuration script in ~/.ideavimrc, which there may also be options to get "normal" behavior with the plugin installed but I haven't looked into that though because the plugin doesn't seems all that useful to me.

Upvotes: 103

tausif
tausif

Reputation: 712

It seems you have entered into insert mode. I have mac and I entered some combination of keys which somehow enabled insert mode. The use block caret was not ticked for me. I found this mentioned on JetBrains thread to get out of insert mode

In short, press on mac to get back into editing mode with the normal cursor

⌥ + ⌘ +  v

Upvotes: 2

Laban Bwire
Laban Bwire

Reputation: 93

Create your shortcut key to Disable or Enable Insert/Ovewrite mode

Go to the Keymap section of your preferences and add your keyboard shortcut to the Toggle Insert/Override command.

Upvotes: 1

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 2288

If your cursor looks like this:

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Go to tools:

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Turn off Vim Emulator:

Cursor should go back to normal.

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Upvotes: 6

Amey Shirke
Amey Shirke

Reputation: 714

Settings > IDE Settings > Editor > Appearance > Disable Use block caret

This fixed the issue for me.

Upvotes: 3

Prashant Srivastav
Prashant Srivastav

Reputation: 1743

screenshot

Disable Vim Emulator for Intellij.

Upvotes: 45

Vmetal
Vmetal

Reputation: 271

On the top menu, go to Tools > Vim Emulator

Upvotes: 27

Benjamin Papp
Benjamin Papp

Reputation: 109

ideaVim plug in is the problem, disable that and that misbehaviour will be gone.

Mac OS X Yosemite / IntelliJ IDEA 14 CE / us keyboard layout /

Upvotes: 8

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