test: reduce flakiness (#24443)

Avoid consecutive RPC requests involving :startinsert or :stopinsert,
because consecutive RPC requests may be processed together, before the
:startinsert or :stopinsert takes effect.

Also change some feed_command() to command() to make tests faster.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/terminal/ex_terminal_spec.lua b/test/functional/terminal/ex_terminal_spec.lua
index 28751a3504..5204b61f57 100644
--- a/test/functional/terminal/ex_terminal_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/terminal/ex_terminal_spec.lua
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ describe(':terminal', function()
   end)
 
   it('nvim_get_mode() in :terminal', function()
-    command(':terminal')
+    command('terminal')
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='nt' }, nvim('get_mode'))
     feed('i')
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='t' }, nvim('get_mode'))
@@ -108,17 +108,19 @@ describe(':terminal', function()
   end)
 
   it(':stopinsert RPC request exits terminal-mode #7807', function()
-    command(':terminal')
+    command('terminal')
     feed('i[tui] insert-mode')
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='t' }, nvim('get_mode'))
     command('stopinsert')
+    feed('<Ignore>')  -- Add input to separate two RPC requests
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='nt' }, nvim('get_mode'))
   end)
 
   it(':stopinsert in normal mode doesn\'t break insert mode #9889', function()
-    command(':terminal')
+    command('terminal')
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='nt' }, nvim('get_mode'))
-    command(':stopinsert')
+    command('stopinsert')
+    feed('<Ignore>')  -- Add input to separate two RPC requests
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='nt' }, nvim('get_mode'))
     feed('a')
     eq({ blocking=false, mode='t' }, nvim('get_mode'))