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I'm using evil via spacemacs. When I exit insert state, the cursor moves to the left one character. Why is that? Is it a bug, or is it a feature? Can I turn it off?

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  • Today I realized that evil-normal-state and evil-force-normal-state is behaving different than each other. While (setq evil-move-cursor-back t) in my configuration using evil-normal-state moves the cursor back but evil-force-normal-state does not move the cursor back. I don't know did they do especially or is this kind of bug but I am using this feature :) – itirazimvar Apr 5 at 8:05
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"Moving one space left after leaving insert" is the default behavior in Vim, which evil (on top of which spacemacs is built) emulates by default. If you don't like that behavior, you can set (setq evil-move-cursor-back nil).

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  • Thank you! Now i see what a dumb question it was. I've checked my .vimrc, and it there is a inoremap <Tab> <Esc>`^ (i remap Esc to Tab). That's why i've never noticed it in Vim! – siphiuel Nov 13 '15 at 14:53

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