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zed/crates/vim
Richard Feldman cb6e9a5070 vim: Don't steal focus from non-pane panels for search commands (#54012)
When the Agent panel (or any dock panel without its own pane) is focused
and a file is open in the center editor, pressing `/` in vim mode would
steal focus to the buffer's search bar instead of staying on the panel.

## Root cause

`Vim::pane()` calls `workspace.focused_pane()`, which falls back to the
center pane when a dock panel without its own `pane()` method is
focused. Vim search commands then open the `BufferSearchBar` on the
center pane and focus it, stealing focus from the panel.

## Fix

Add a guard in `Vim::pane()` that returns `None` when the resolved pane
doesn't actually contain focus. This prevents all vim search/match
commands (`/`, `?`, `n`, `N`, `*`, `#`, etc.) from stealing focus from
non-pane panels.

All 497 vim tests and 253 agent_ui tests pass.

Release Notes:

- Fixed vim search (`/`) stealing focus from the Agent panel when a file
is open in the editor.
2026-04-16 11:47:59 -04:00
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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.