Bug 360558

Summary: Repeat character in vi mode doesn't work in Centos 7.2
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: David Jones <david.jones74>
Component: Vi Input ModeAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: dnicolas
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Jones 2016-03-15 14:01:20 UTC 
This is for version 3.14.8.

I'm unable to repeat a character using N => shift+i => character => esc.

This has been working for as long as I can remember on every other distro I've used, except CentOS 6. I would expect that CentOS 7 has a new enough version of Kate for this feature to be present. 

I tried enabling VI override of Kate shortcuts, but that didn't do it. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Kate
2. Enable VI mode
3. Try the "repeat character" vi shortcut.

Actual Results:  
Only the first character is created.

Expected Results:  
Create N identical characters.
Comment 1 Diego Gangl 2017-10-13 14:36:23 UTC 
Can't reproduce here on version 17.08.2
The characters are always repeated when going back to normal mode.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2017-10-25 14:41:25 UTC 
Reopen if you see the issue with newer versions.