External keyboard loses half its function when software keyboard is hidden about ivim HOT 11 CLOSED

What about when you are not hiding the software keyboard?
Is the caps lock key mapping enabled?
What do you mean by "the default Apple keyboard is disabled"?

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Sorry for the terse explanation.

When the software keyboard is shown, all buttons work as expected.

caps lock is mapped to esc. I can't remember if it worked but I think it didn't.

Disabled as in, in General/keyboard, only my 3rd party keyboard is enabled.

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I haven't tried re-creating with the apple keyboard. I'll do that now

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The apple keyboard autohides, and can't be displayed while the keyboard is connected. However it works fine in this situation. When this keyboard is not in the available keyboards, the problem occurs. Some 3rd party keyboards will hide themselves, and the problem won't occur until the screen is held, at which point it reoccurs.
Seems like holding to hide keyboard, when an external one is connected, disables most input.

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Because of the limitation of the APIs, the caps lock mapping is implemented in a very restricted way. Except for the default English keyboard, other keyboards are not well supported.

Your problem is probably caused by this. So you can disable the caps lock mapping to see whether it works or not.

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Will do. It would be a shame if that were the problem, it's bloody brilliant having my pinky do what it expects to.

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Also to clarify, caps lock does indeed send esc (mapped to backspace in vim). This is even with non-default keyboards.

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Yes, but the most annoying part in the caps lock mapping implementation is that the uppercase letters need special handling. Which is the main reason why non-standard keyboards would not work.

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Aah, true. That includes backspace, ; and :?

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You can check out the implementation of the external keyboard in file https://github.com/terrychou/iVim/blob/master/iVim/VimViewController%2BExternalKeyboard.swift

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Sorry, just got back into using this. Can confirm that switching back to no caps mapping doesn't solve the problem.

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