Vim EasyMotion for VS Code not activating

Question

Does anyone use Vim with VSCode? For some reason, my <leader> key (space), does not activate the easy-motion plugin (I made sure it is enabled in the settings), but just moves the cursor to the right once. I am new to VS Code, am I missing something? I still haven't figured out how .vimrc works with VS Code.

TIA!

Answer 1

It's not nessesary to use .vimrc file for vscode unless you want some customized behaviors.

• Make sure you've enbaled the easymotion in vsvim settings:

  "vim.easymotion": true
  
  (in your settings.json file)

• When it comes to VSCode, easymotion will be triggered by double press <leader> key.
  Different from Terminal Vim, for example: (in your case <leader> is set to space)

  space + space + 2 + s
  
  after you press the above keys, your status bar should look like this.

Hope it would help you get into Visual Studio Code quickly.