agent: Improve discoverability of the quote selection action (#40897)
This PR renames the `agent::QuoteSelection` to `agent::AddSelectionToThread` _and_ adds it as a menu item in both the right-click context menu within regular buffers as well as the "Selection" app menu. We've received feedback in the past about how hard to discover this feature is, and after watching [the Syntax podcast crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRK3PeVFfVE) recently struggle with doing so—and then naturally looking for it in the context menu and not finding it—it felt like time to push a change. I think the rename + the availability in these places could help bringing it to surface more. The same action can be done in Cursor through the `cmd-l` keybinding, but in Zed, that triggers `editor::SelectLine`, which I don't want to override by default. However, if you're using Cursor's keymap, then `cmd-l` does trigger this action, as expected. <img width="500" height="1812" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-22 at 12 01@2x" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dfc2c41c-8d0a-4a1a-8ea1-1bd5d1aa1171" /> Release Notes: - agent: Improves discoverability of the previously called "quote selection" action—which allows to add a text selection in a buffer as context within the agent panel—by renaming it to "add selection to thread" and making it available from the right-click editor context menu as well as the "Selection" app menu.
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ To begin, type a message in a `You` block.
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As you type, the remaining tokens count for the selected model is updated.
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Inserting text from an editor is as simple as highlighting the text and running `agent: quote selection` ({#kb agent::QuoteSelection}); Zed will wrap it in a fenced code block if it is code.
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Inserting text from an editor is as simple as highlighting the text and running `agent: add selection to thread` ({#kb agent::AddSelectionToThread}); Zed will wrap it in a fenced code block if it is code.
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@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Usage: `/terminal [<number>]`
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The `/selection` command inserts the selected text in the editor into the context. This is useful for referencing specific parts of your code.
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This is equivalent to the `agent: quote selection` command ({#kb agent::QuoteSelection}).
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This is equivalent to the `agent: add selection to thread` command ({#kb agent::AddSelectionToThread}).
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Usage: `/selection`
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