Intellij 14 weird editor/cursor behaviour

Question

I just upgraded my Intellij IDEA to version 14, but I have the problem that my cursor in the editor window is acting \"different\". It starts of in a sort of protected mode,

Answer 1

ideaVim plug in is the problem, disable that and that misbehaviour will be gone.

Mac OS X Yosemite / IntelliJ IDEA 14 CE / us keyboard layout /

Answer 2

On the top menu, go to Tools > Vim Emulator

Answer 3

Disabling/Uninstalling the ideaVim plugin seemed to fix the problem for me. The plugin description hints that you can configure it via a configuration script in ~/.ideavimrc, which there may also be options to get "normal" behavior with the plugin installed but I haven't looked into that though because the plugin doesn't seems all that useful to me. I hope this helps other people to fix their issues with IntelliJ 14.

Answer 4

Disable Vim Emulator for Intellij.

Answer 5

Settings > IDE Settings > Editor > Appearance > Disable Use block caret

This fixed the issue for me.

Answer 6

It seems you have entered into insert mode. I have mac and I entered some combination of keys which somehow enabled insert mode. The use block caret was not ticked for me. I found this mentioned on JetBrains thread to get out of insert mode

In short, press on mac to get back into editing mode with the normal cursor

⌥ + ⌘ +  v