While using Powershell 5, when I type git rebase -i <sha> vim fires up and I get the a list of commits on their pick lines.
Moving the caret to the start of any of those lines and changing pick to squash, s, fixup, f etc appears to be blocked initially. It would appear that the cursor keys should be hit randomly, random characters entered and eventually vim lets text be entered as I intend.
What is vim doing here and is it simply an option? How do you stop it?
[EDIT] I realise that the initial mode of vim may not be the mode I'm looking for, however I'm not sure how to check that, change it or anything related. If the initial mode of vim, as entered when typing git rebase... does need changing, a good answer to this question would be how to change that mode once vim has started up.