Custom vim keybinding to quickly delete content in quotes, brackets, etc.

[speri203]

Recently came across this editor and I have been impressed by the speed of it. I generally use neovim as my main editor 99% and if I am able to incorporate my frequently used keybindings then I can attempt to daily drive Zed. The keybindings I would like to incorporate are:

jj - to substitute for Esc (use a delay to determine if actually typing jj or to use Escape)
ciq/diq - to clear and insert or delete content inside single/double quotes (same for yanking)
cib/dib - to clear and insert or delete content within brackets/parentheses/curly braces (same for yanking)

I have come across the documentation on the website outlining how to create custom vim keybindings but I am not able to find any built in API "vim::" call to accomplish this. Has anyone been able to figure this out/help me out?

[danielkvores]

I have the same issue with jj and I can't understand why it doesn't work. I've tried alternatives like jk, but still not luck, when I'm in insert mode the j won't be displayed which is weird because g works perfectly fine in insert mode even though there are multiple commands utilising g, f.e. gn

[mrnugget]

Just FYI: this is currently being fixed. In an upcoming Zed release you should then be able to bind jk to switch to normal mode, for example.

[speri203]

Just FYI: this is currently being fixed. In an upcoming Zed release you should then be able to bind jk to switch to normal mode, for example.

Awesome, looking forward to the update. Do you happen to have any updates regarding the 2nd and 3rd keymaps I have mentioned in the post? Chain actions for yanking/clearing/deleting content found within special characters? The functionality already semi exists. For example, if I want to change content within single quotes then I would do ci' and for double quotes ci". What I would like to do is ciq which would "change" content within quotes irrespective of single or double. Similar behavior for cib which would change content in (),[],{}

[mrnugget]

I don't think that's possible yet without changing the code. See the default vim.json here:

{
    "context": "Editor && VimObject",
    "bindings": {
      "w": "vim::Word",
      "shift-w": [
        "vim::Word",
        {
          "ignorePunctuation": true
        }
      ],
      "s": "vim::Sentence",
      "'": "vim::Quotes",
      "`": "vim::BackQuotes",
      "\"": "vim::DoubleQuotes",
      "(": "vim::Parentheses",
      ")": "vim::Parentheses",
      "[": "vim::SquareBrackets",
      "]": "vim::SquareBrackets",
      "{": "vim::CurlyBrackets",
      "}": "vim::CurlyBrackets",
      "<": "vim::AngleBrackets",
      ">": "vim::AngleBrackets"
    }
  }

What we'd need is a vim::AnyParenBracket or vim::AnyQuote object. Doesn't seem to hard, but it doesn't work yet. Noted 😄

[speri203]

Awesome, thanks for the engagement! The nvim-surround plugin in neovim is what gives the capability of the ciq, diq, cib, etc.. I figure id post the link here as well so you can have a reference https://github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround

[ConradIrwin]

Currently we're prioritizing vim compatibility over custom keybindings; that said, there are a number of commonly used vim plugins I'd like to emulate.

Is there a plugin that you use to provide the objects that you use? (I don't think q is defined in vim, so we could probably make it work as you suggest, b in vim and zed just matches ( and )).

[speri203]

I use the pre-build LazyVim distribution and the functionality came out of the box but after some digging I believe I found the plugin responsible for this functionality, nvim-surround. The video demoing the plugin uses something similar dsq to remove quotes that wrap a word.
https://github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround

[tusharxoxoxo]

how to enable treesitter context in zed?

[mrnugget]

Can you clarify what you're looking for? A text motion to select tree-sitter contexts? These already exist, you just need to copy them to your keybindings:

zed/assets/keymaps/default.json

Lines 336 to 337 in ac74a72

	"alt-up": "editor::SelectLargerSyntaxNode",
	"alt-down": "editor::SelectSmallerSyntaxNode",

[tusharxoxoxo]

Got it

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