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Mapping down arrow (lines forward) to a key combo

#1

Hi,

I am trying to map moving the cursor a line down (e.g. the down arrow) to ALT+k (to recreate the arrow keys on the keyboard, so that I can move the cursor arround without leaving the home row) by doing this:

{ "keys": "alt+j"], "command": "move", "args": {"by": "characters", "forward": false} },

This works, but I noticed, that if I keep alt+j pressed, the cursor vanishes, and when I release the keys the cursor pops up some lines below. So the behaviour works, but it is bad that the cursor vanishes, as one can only estimate when to release the keys. This does not happen if I keep the down arrow key pressed. Is there a way to fix this?

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#2

I tested this issue on a different system using the same build of sublimetext (3047), and found that it does not occur there. So I have the problem in Ubuntu 13.10, but the problem does not occur in Ubuntu 12.04

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#3

However, in other applications (e.g. Emaics) this works as expected

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