diff --git a/src/actions/actions.ts b/src/actions/actions.ts
index 75bfb08e03a..7cb39713ad4 100644
--- a/src/actions/actions.ts
+++ b/src/actions/actions.ts
@@ -524,6 +524,10 @@ export class DeleteOperator extends BaseOperator {
           vimState.cursorPosition = start;
         }
 
+        if (vimState.effectiveRegisterMode() === RegisterMode.LineWise) {
+          vimState.cursorPosition = vimState.cursorPosition.getLineBegin();
+        }
+
         vimState.currentMode = ModeName.Normal;
 
         return vimState;
diff --git a/test/mode/modeNormal.test.ts b/test/mode/modeNormal.test.ts
index e80d0b5b5c0..08853d9388c 100644
--- a/test/mode/modeNormal.test.ts
+++ b/test/mode/modeNormal.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 "use strict";
 
-import { setupWorkspace, cleanUpWorkspace, assertEqualLines, assertEqual } from './../testUtils';
+import { setupWorkspace, cleanUpWorkspace, assertEqual } from './../testUtils';
 import { ModeName } from '../../src/mode/mode';
 import { ModeHandler } from '../../src/mode/modeHandler';
 import { getTestingFunctions } from '../testSimplifier';
@@ -34,98 +34,74 @@ suite("Mode Normal", () => {
         assertEqual(modeHandler.currentMode.name, ModeName.Normal);
     });
 
-    test("Can handle 'x'", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            'i',
-            't', 'e', 'x', 't',
-            '<esc>',
-            '^', 'l', 'l',
-            'x',
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines(["tet"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle x",
+      start: ['te|xt'],
+      keysPressed: 'x',
+      end: ["tet"],
     });
 
-    test("Can handle 'dw'", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(
-            'itext text text'.split('')
-        );
-
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>',
-            '^', 'w',
-            'd', 'w'
-        ]);
-
-        await assertEqualLines(["text text"]);
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(['d', 'w']);
-
-        await assertEqualLines(["text "]);
-
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(['d', 'w']);
-        await assertEqualLines(["text"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dw",
+      start: ['one |two three'],
+      keysPressed: 'dw',
+      end: ["one |three"],
     });
 
-    test("Can handle dd last line", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione\ntwo".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>', '^',
-            'd', 'd'
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines(["one"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dw",
+      start: ['one | '],
+      keysPressed: 'dw',
+      end: ["one| "],
     });
 
-    test("Can handle dd single line", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>',
-            'd', 'd'
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines([""]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dw",
+      start: ['one |two'],
+      keysPressed: 'dw',
+      end: ["one| "],
     });
 
-    test("Can handle dd", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione\ntwo".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>', 'g', 'g',
-            'd', 'd'
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines(["two"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dd last line",
+      start: ['one', '|two'],
+      keysPressed: 'dd',
+      end: ["|one"],
     });
 
-
-    test("Can handle dd empty line", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione\n\ntwo".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>', 'g', 'g', 'j',
-            'd', 'd'
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines(["one", "two"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dd single line",
+      start: ['|one'],
+      keysPressed: 'dd',
+      end: ["|"],
     });
 
-    test("Can handle cc", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione\none two".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>', '^',
-            'c', 'c', 'a', '<esc>'
-        ]);
-
-        assertEqualLines(["one", "a"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dd",
+      start: ['|one', 'two'],
+      keysPressed: 'dd',
+      end: ["|two"],
     });
 
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle dd empty line",
+      start: ['one', '|', 'two'],
+      keysPressed: 'dd',
+      end: ["one", "|two"],
+    });
 
-    test("Can handle yy", async () => {
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents("ione".split(""));
-        await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents([
-            '<esc>', '^',
-            'y', 'y', 'O', '<esc>', 'p'
-        ]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle 'cc'",
+      start: ['one', '|one two'],
+      keysPressed: 'cca<esc>',
+      end: ["one", "|a"],
+    });
 
-        assertEqualLines(["", "one", "one"]);
+    newTest({
+      title: "Can handle 'yy'",
+      start: ['|one'],
+      keysPressed: 'yyO<esc>p',
+      end: ["", "|one", "one"],
     });
 
     newTest({
diff --git a/test/testSimplifier.ts b/test/testSimplifier.ts
index 0e673d33c03..11563b714e9 100644
--- a/test/testSimplifier.ts
+++ b/test/testSimplifier.ts
@@ -142,6 +142,36 @@ class TestObjectHelper {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Tokenize a string like "abc<esc>d<c-c>" into ["a", "b", "c", "<esc>", "d", "<c-c>"]
+ */
+function tokenizeKeySequence(sequence: string): string[] {
+    let isBracketedKey = false;
+    let key = "";
+    let result = [];
+
+    for (const char of sequence) {
+        key += char;
+
+        if (char === '<') {
+            isBracketedKey = true;
+        }
+
+        if (char === '>') {
+            isBracketedKey = false;
+        }
+
+        if (isBracketedKey) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        result.push(key);
+        key = "";
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
+
 async function testIt(modeHandler: ModeHandler, testObj: ITestObject): Promise<void> {
     let helper = new TestObjectHelper(testObj);
 
@@ -158,7 +188,7 @@ async function testIt(modeHandler: ModeHandler, testObj: ITestObject): Promise<v
     await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(helper.getKeyPressesToMoveToStartPosition());
 
     // assumes key presses are single characters for now
-    await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(testObj.keysPressed.split(''));
+    await modeHandler.handleMultipleKeyEvents(tokenizeKeySequence(testObj.keysPressed));
 
     // Check valid test object input
     assert(helper.isValid, "Missing '|' in test object.");