Equals command not working as expected

[joshslark]

I'm used to working with VSVim in Visual Studio and I'm migrating to JetBrains Rider with IdeaVim. One common task that I use vim emulation for is to visual select a group of lines and auto-indent them using the equals command. However, with IdeaVim in Rider, it doesn't seem to do anything. My expectation is that it would trigger the Code > Auto-Indent Lines function. Could someone advise me as to how ideavim is intended to work with the Equals command.

I'm including a link to the Vim help file to eliminate any ambiguity of what I mean by the equals command.

Thanks

[Mishkun]

https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/src/com/maddyhome/idea/vim/package-info.java#L153
This documentation says that = command indeed formats visual selection, and is works for me in IntelliJ Idea. Did you try to trigger Code > Auto-Indent Lines by hand using menu to see if it does anything at all in your file?

[joshslark]

Yes, triggering it by hand achieves the desired effect, but triggering it using the = command is essentially a no-op. The UI acts as though I triggered a command, but nothing changes.

I tried a couple of different experiments. It works when I trigger it using the ex command :action AutoIndentLines. I turned on action tracking and it is calling AutoIndentLines action. Strangely, AutoIndentLines quits working from all three triggers when action tracking is enabled.

[Mishkun]

What if you try to add map = <Action>(AutoIndentLines) into yout ideavimrc file?

[joshslark]

It looks like everything works properly when I add that line to my ideavimrc file. Thanks for the help!

[Mishkun]

@joshslark can you share your ideavimrc file? Maybe some odd plugin is overriding this behaviour?

[joshslark]

I actually didn’t have an ideavimrc file before you made the suggestion. Now, I have one with just that single line that you suggested.

I think you should be able to reproduce the problem just by installing Jetbrains Rider with the Ideavim plugin. I believe it was happening to me on multiple computers with the initial configuration.