In Evil, Ctrl-o is not working like in Vim

Fri Jun 6 13:59:28 CEST 2014

Ed Kostas <edu500ac <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> When I press Ctrl-o in insert state, then press :w, Evil remains in normal
> state after executing the colon command.  
> 
> When I press Ctrl-o in Vim, then the :w command, the command is 
> executed and Vim returns to the insert state.
> 
> In other words, in Vim, Ctrl-o executes one command and remains
> in insert state. In Evil, it remains in Normal state after executing the 
> command.  
> 
> It would be fine if Ctrl-o had exactly the same behaviour in Evil and
> in Vim. Is there any reason for this not being so?
> 

By the way, I found a patch on a merge request for Evil
 (Commit: #9c2cd49 Parent: #8a9aeae) that seems to be 
addressing the problem. I applied the foresail patch, 
but it did not solve the problem of colon commands.