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João Soaresanddino 0361eff982 editor: Refresh active debug line highlight on theme change (#59274)
# Objective

Fixes #58736

Pause the debugger on a breakpoint, switch your theme, and the active
debug line keeps its old highlight color until you step again or restart
Zed.

## Solution

The highlight stores a concrete color grabbed from the theme back when
`go_to_active_debug_line` ran. A theme switch goes through
`theme_changed`, which refreshes brackets, semantic tokens, and outline
symbols but never re-applies that highlight, so it stays stale.
Re-running `go_to_active_debug_line` from `theme_changed` re-resolves
the color against the current theme.

## Testing

Added a regression test in `debugger_ui` that stops at a debug line,
swaps the theme's `editor.debugger_active_line.background`, and checks
the highlight follows. It fails on `main` and passes with the fix.

Also tested by hand on Windows: started a debugpy session, paused at a
breakpoint, switched themes from the theme selector, and watched the
active line recolor live without stepping or restarting.

## Self-Review Checklist:

- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [ ] The content adheres to Zed's UI standards
([UX/UI](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
and
[icon](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/icons/README.md)
guidelines)
- [x] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable

## Showcase

Paused at a breakpoint, switching themes from the theme selector.

| Before | After |
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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/653a7e1b-3a99-4316-b1c9-b16ed7a7a8ba
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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22a4c876-30f2-44c5-aad9-0f860639074c
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Release Notes:

- Fixed the active debug line color not updating when switching themes
while the debugger is paused
([#58736](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58736)).

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Co-authored-by: dino <dinojoaocosta@gmail.com>
2026-06-16 17:42:36 +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.