@jeff.terrell ok I did a few more tests and I managed to narrow it down quite a bit. it’s happening whenever there’s a blank indentation in front of it. so for example, if my cursor is here

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qq i fo ESC q @q

fofoo

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I’m wondering if there’s something in my config that’s making this happen

confirmed it’s happening on other machines as well

with a fresh install of spacemacs

with a default .spacemacs as well?

yeah. I tried it on a machine that had never had spacemacs on it

it’s not happening in a new empty buffer. nor in .txt files

@bravilogy - Nice triage. Yep, I can reproduce. Looks like a legit (and fascinating!) bug. O SPC ESC qq i fo ESC q @q yields a line with ffooo. Nice find!

oh thanks for that! 😄 I thought I was going mental haha

Looks like this might not even be related to evil-mode: O SPC ESC <F3> i fo ESC <F4> <F4> does the same thing.

I tried it emacs way as well - C-x ( I believe

and it’s the same thing

not sure if behind the scenes they do the same thing but

In fact, you can reproduce this entirely within insert mode. O <F3> fo <F4> <F4> yields fofoo.

Oh OK I thought <F3>/`<F4>` was stock emacs, but I don't know. C-x ( does feel more emacs-y.

I believe there was another combination except fo that I’m trying to remember now

there was i character in there

but it was the same thing happening basically

Have you tried vanilla emacs?

This is really pretty interesting. Kudos.

I haven’t tried vanilla emacs because I don’t know anything in emacs haha 😄 I’m a hardcore vim user

but it’s not happening in vim for sure

Yeah, I'm not surprised about that. In general I've found vim's macros to be more reliable and robust than those in emacs.

btw, I didn’t know <F3> and <F4> 👍

Do you want to ask people in #emacs?

yeah sure I can do that

I can’t reproduce it in clojure files

I’m so eager to find out the issue that I completely forgot my lunch 😄

on an unrelated note to the above bug, is it possible to format my js code based on my eslint configuration file?

if anyone knows..