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Nathan Sobo 3a8d012d1a Fix macOS find query seeding (#56681)
Closes #55619

### Summary

- Route `buffer_search::UseSelectionForFind` through
`BufferSearchBar::deploy` instead of updating the query editor directly.
- Add an explicit seed-query override to `deploy`, so the Cmd-E action
can force `SeedQuerySetting::Always` while regular deploy callers
continue to pass `None` and respect the user’s
`seed_search_query_from_cursor` setting.
- By going through `deploy`, Cmd-E now also runs the search path that
keeps buffer-search navigation state in sync:
  - shows/initializes the search bar for the active searchable item
  - applies the seeded query via `search_suggested`
- calls `search`, which updates the query editor, search options, active
search query, search history, and macOS find pasteboard
  - refreshes `searchable_items_with_matches` and `active_match_index`
  - activates the current match after the search completes
- This ensures the subsequent Cmd-G action has the expected active
query, match list, search token, and active match index to select the
next result.
- Add a macOS-only end-to-end regression test using the default macOS
keymap with `simulate_keystrokes("cmd-e")` and
`simulate_keystrokes("cmd-g")`.

### Validation

- `cargo test -p search test_cmd_e_then_cmd_g_uses_selection_for_find`
- `cargo fmt --check --package search --package zed_actions`
- `./script/check-keymaps`
- `cargo check -p search`
- `cargo check -p workspace`
- `cargo check -p vim`

Release Notes:

- Fixed macOS Cmd-E/Cmd-G find behavior so Cmd-E seeds find from the
cursor or selection and Cmd-G advances through the newly seeded matches.
2026-05-13 23:35:10 +00:00
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2026-05-13 23:35:10 +00:00
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Design notes:

This crate is split into two conceptual halves:

  • The terminal.rs file and the src/mappings/ folder, these contain the code for interacting with Alacritty and maintaining the pty event loop. Some behavior in this file is constrained by terminal protocols and standards. The Zed init function is also placed here.
  • Everything else. These other files integrate the Terminal struct created in terminal.rs into the rest of GPUI. The main entry point for GPUI is the terminal_view.rs file and the modal.rs file.

ttys are created externally, and so can fail in unexpected ways. However, GPUI currently does not have an API for models than can fail to instantiate. TerminalBuilder solves this by using Rust's type system to split tty instantiation into a 2 step process: first attempt to create the file handles with TerminalBuilder::new(), check the result, then call TerminalBuilder::subscribe(cx) from within a model context.

The TerminalView struct abstracts over failed and successful terminals, passing focus through to the associated view and allowing clients to build a terminal without worrying about errors.

#Input

There are currently many distinct paths for getting keystrokes to the terminal:

  1. Terminal specific characters and bindings. Things like ctrl-a mapping to ASCII control character 1, ANSI escape codes associated with the function keys, etc. These are caught with a raw key-down handler in the element and are processed immediately. This is done with the try_keystroke() method on Terminal

  2. GPU Action handlers. GPUI clobbers a few vital keys by adding bindings to them in the global context. These keys are synthesized and then dispatched through the same try_keystroke() API as the above mappings

  3. IME text. When the special character mappings fail, we pass the keystroke back to GPUI to hand it to the IME system. This comes back to us in the View::replace_text_in_range() method, and we then send that to the terminal directly, bypassing try_keystroke().

  4. Pasted text has a separate pathway.

Generally, there's a distinction between 'keystrokes that need to be mapped' and 'strings which need to be written'. I've attempted to unify these under the '.try_keystroke()' API and the .input() API (which try_keystroke uses) so we have consistent input handling across the terminal