Visual selection gets cancelled when using with NERDTree and vim-devicons

[Frederick888]

Description

When using with NERDTree and vim-devicons, after opening NERDTree, visual selection in main buffer gets cancelled after ~1s.

Steps to reproduce

set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
let &packpath = &runtimepath

" vim-plug
call plug#begin()

Plug 'antoinemadec/FixCursorHold.nvim'
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'ryanoasis/vim-devicons'

call plug#end()

1. nvim -u /path/to/minimal.vim some_file
2. :NERDTree
3. Now in the main buffer, V and select a few lines
4. Wait for 1-2 seconds, the visual selection gets cancelled

NeoVim:

NVIM v0.4.4
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5

[p4p3r]

I'm experiencing the same. Visual line/block selection is cancelled as soon as I stop moving the cursor. In my case way less than a second.

[timtyrrell]

Ah, same! I was losing my mind this week trying to figure out what was causing it, finally landed me here. I am using neovim nightly, btw.

I haven't dug in much but found this: preservim/nerdtree#983 (comment)

Possibly also interesting: Xuyuanp/nerdtree-git-plugin#173

EDIT: I just switched to https://github.com/weirongxu/coc-explorer 🤷

[antoinemadec]

@Frederick888 @p4p3r @timtyrrell oopsy, this repo was "unwatched" and I didn't receive notifications.
Could you please try again, I fixed the Visual mode issue back in April: b5158c9

This should work just fine now, please let me know.

[Frederick888]

@antoinemadec I can confirm that with the latest plugins on neovim 0.5.1, the issue is no longer reproducible. Thank you.