When entering visual mode from insert mode <c-o>v vim is in "(insert) VISUAL"
mode and will reenter insert mode after a finished operator. However there
seems to be another "INSERT VISUAL" mode that can be entered like so:
let g:modal = ""
function! Modal()
if g:modal != ""
execute "normal! ".g:modal
let g:modal = ""
endif
endfunction
autocmd! InsertEnter * call Modal()
nnoremap ,i :<c-u>let g:modal = "v"<cr>i
nnoremap ,s :<c-u>let g:modal = "gh"<cr>i
now ,i in normal mode will enter an insert mode, where <esc> goes to visual
mode with the just inserted text selected. Now this seems useful, but drawing
is quite buggy in "INSERT VISUAL" mode. However "INSERT SELECT" entered by ,s
seems less useful: the user types some text, press <esc>, now the typed text is
selected and will be overwritten by the next thing the user types.
Sending ["ex", "normal! v"] over a channel to a vim being in insert mode has
the same effect.
Are these modes intentional behavior? I can't find them in the documentation.
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