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fantacellandJakub Konka 25172f990b helix: Change selection cloning (#38090)
Closes #33637
Closes #37332
and solves part of
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33580#discussioncomment-14195506

This improves the "C" and "alt-C" actions to work like helix.
It also adds "," which removes all but the newest cursors. In helix the
one that's left would be the primary selection, but I don't think that
has an equivalent yet, so this simulates what would be the primary
selection if it was never cycled with "(" ")".

Release Notes:

- Improved multicursor creation and deletion in helix mode

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Co-authored-by: Jakub Konka <kubkon@jakubkonka.com>
2025-10-16 16:36:31 +00:00
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This contains the code for Zed's Vim emulation mode.

Vim mode in Zed is supposed to primarily "do what you expect": it mostly tries to copy vim exactly, but will use Zed-specific functionality when available to make things smoother. This means Zed will never be 100% vim compatible, but should be 100% vim familiar!

The backlog is maintained in the #vim channel notes.

Testing against Neovim

If you are making a change to make Zed's behavior more closely match vim/nvim, you can create a test using the NeovimBackedTestContext.

For example, the following test checks that Zed and Neovim have the same behavior when running * in visual mode:

#[gpui::test]
async fn test_visual_star_hash(cx: &mut gpui::TestAppContext) {
    let mut cx = NeovimBackedTestContext::new(cx).await;

    cx.set_shared_state("ˇa.c. abcd a.c. abcd").await;
    cx.simulate_shared_keystrokes(["v", "3", "l", "*"]).await;
    cx.assert_shared_state("a.c. abcd ˇa.c. abcd").await;
}

To keep CI runs fast, by default the neovim tests use a cached JSON file that records what neovim did (see crates/vim/test_data), but while developing this test you'll need to run it with the neovim flag enabled:

cargo test -p vim --features neovim test_visual_star_hash

This will run your keystrokes against a headless neovim and cache the results in the test_data directory. Note that neovim must be installed and reachable on your $PATH in order to run the feature.

Testing zed-only behavior

Zed does more than vim/neovim in their default modes. The VimTestContext can be used instead. This lets you test integration with the language server and other parts of zed's UI that don't have a NeoVim equivalent.