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Dino 0410b2340c editor: Refactor cursor_offset_on_selection field in favor of VimModeSettings (#44889)
In a previous Pull Request, a new field was added to `editor::Editor`,
namely `cursor_offset_on_selection`, in order to control whether the
cursor representing the head of a selection should be positioned in the
last selected character, as we have on Vim mode, or after, like we have
when Vim mode is disabled.

This field would then be set by the `vim` crate, depending on the
current vim mode. However, it was noted that
`vim_mode_setting::VimModeSetting` already exsits and allows other
crates to determine whether Vim mode is enabled or not. Since we're
already checking `!range.is_empty()` in
`editor::element::SelectionLayout::new` we can then rely on simply
determining whether Vim mode is enabled to decide whether tho shift the
cursor one position to the left when making a selection.

As such, this commit removes the `cursor_offset_on_selection` field, as
well as any related methods in favor of a new `Editor.vim_mode_enabled`
method, which can be used to achieve the same behavior.

Relates to #42837 

Release Notes:

- N/A
2025-12-15 19:18:18 +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.