Does anyone know what this popup is, the line with a slash through it and the number one?
It seems to only happen in vim normal mode, and only after moving the cursor to the right. I believe it is showing where the cursors started, though I’m not sure how to use it, or if I can disable it.
I’m on MacOS, and I just tried holding down the lowercase l key.
So it’s a MacOS thing. This is the accent character selection menu. It can be disabled with this command.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
Rather than disable it, I wonder if this should be considered a bug, since when you are in normal mode, it shouldn’t really be registering as a text field.
I guess you are triggering it by holding down l to navigate sideways?
(Although I’ll consider disabling the pressandhold on my end too. I always use alt+keys to chord-type special characters and accents.)
Also some unsolicited vim advice if it’s welcome: there may be more ergonomic ways to move around, than holding down a key: w, [count]w, f[char], /[pattern], etc.
Yes I was triggering it by holding now the l key. After your original message I tested it with other keys as well to the same results just with different accents.
While researching how to disable it, I found that there might be a bug in last MacOS where this accent menu doesn’t appear at all.
As for it being a bug, I’m not sure. I did find some folks talking about ApplePressAndHoldEnabled for VSCode as well. Link
I would expect nothing less from another vim user than to tell me I’m navigating wrong 
lol, guilty! 
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