Vim: cannot jump to the previous occurrence of a character in visual mode

[ethanppl]

Steps to reproduce

1. Type a line (the line has to contain a character that occurs two times), e.g. type 123 123 123 in a line
2. Go to the 3 in the middle in normal mode
3. Type v to go into the visual mode, and type F3 to find the previous occurrence of 3

Expected result

It should highlight 3 123

Actual result

It cannot find the previous option, even typing ;

Environment

• Operating system:

Windows

• Debug info:

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.1.16
	Installer version: v1.1.9
	Operating system: Windows 10 Home 10.0.22621
	Login status: not logged in
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: off
	Legacy editor: off
	Base theme: dark
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 3
	Plugins enabled: 0

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none

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Additional information

• It won’t work only when the cursor is highlighting the character that you are searching for, and the highlight is going in the “forward” direction
  • This means, if your cursor is on 2 and do vF3 it will work
  • Or if you cursor highlighted 23 and currently placed on top of 2, and do vF2 it will also work
  • But if your cursor is highlighting 23 and the cursor is placed on top of 3, and do vF3 it will not work
• After it’s stuck, typing ; will not move the cursor forwards (backwards in the line) but typing , will move the cursor backwards (forwards in the line).
• Forward search in visual mode works, i.e.vf3 will work
• Backward search in normal mode also work, i.e. just F3 will jump to the previous occurrence

[WhiteNoise]

1. Does it happen in the sandbox vault?
2. Does it happen in source mode?
3. Does it happen here https://codemirror.net/5/demo/vim.html ?
4. Does it happen here https://codemirror-vim--util.repl.co/ ?

[ethanppl]

1. Does it happen in the sandbox vault? Yes
2. Does it happen in source mode? Yes
3. Does it happen here CodeMirror: Vim bindings demo ? Yes
4. Does it happen here https://codemirror-vim--util.repl.co/ ? Yes

I find another weird issue:

1234567
beehive

Assuming the word beehive is at position 1-7:

• If the cursor is on position 3: do vfe will highlight positions 3-7 as expected
• If the cursor is on position 2: do vfe will highlight positions 2-7 instead of 2-3
• If the cursor is on position 3: do vFe the cursor doesn’t move, instead of highlighting 3-2, which is the issue pointed out above

[WhiteNoise]

open a feature request here https://github.com/replit/codemirror-vim/issues

[ethanppl]

Submitted: Cannot/Buggy jump to the next/previous occurrence of a character in visual mode · Issue #95 · replit/codemirror-vim · GitHub. Thanks for the guidance.

[WhiteNoise]

thank you

[WhiteNoise]

Let me know if this works when you get 1.2.4