zed/crates/vim
Lukas Wirth 357ee0fa3f
vim: Fix helix select next match panic when search wraps around (#51642)
Fixes ZED-4YP

Sort and deduplicate anchor ranges in do_helix_select before passing
them to select_anchor_ranges. When the search wraps past the end of the
document back to the beginning, the new selection is at a lower offset
than the accumulated prior selections, producing unsorted anchors that
crash the rope cursor with 'cannot summarize backward'.


Release Notes:

- Fixed a panic in helix mode with search selecting wrapping around the
document end
2026-03-16 11:14:26 +01:00
..
src vim: Fix helix select next match panic when search wraps around (#51642) 2026-03-16 11:14:26 +01:00
test_data vim: Fix dot repeat ignoring recorded register (#50753) 2026-03-16 10:05:14 +00:00
Cargo.toml Remove unreferenced dev dependencies (#51093) 2026-03-09 13:22:12 +01:00
LICENSE-GPL
README.md Correct other end visual block functionality (#27678) 2025-03-28 20:52:38 +00:00

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.