Key Bindings

Custom key bindings

Accessing custom key bindings

You can add custom key bindings or change existing ones in your keymap (keymap.json). You can open your keymap.json using CMD + K, CMD + S

Adding a custom key binding

To customize key bindings, specify a context and the list of bindings to set. Re-mapping an existing binding will clobber the existing binding in favor of the custom one.

An example of adding a set of custom key bindings:

[
  {
    "context": "Editor",
    "bindings": {
      "ctrl-w": "editor::SelectLargerSyntaxNode",
      "ctrl-shift-W": "editor::SelectSmallerSyntaxNode",
      "ctrl-c": "editor::Cancel"
    }
  }
]

You can see more examples in Zed's default.json and vim.json

There are some key bindings that can't be overridden; we are working on an issue surrounding this.

All Key bindings

Editor

Pane

Buffer Search Bar

Workspace

Following

Project panel

Vim mode

Vim mode is currenly in active development.

Vim mode is a work in progress

Fundamental parts of the Vim mode experience are still missing. We will continue devloping it and will make an annoucement when we consider it ready for full time use.

Enabling Vim mode

You can enable Vim mode by adding vim_mode: true to your settings.json.

More about settings in Configuring Zed.

Please report issues you encounter while using Vim mode, but read the above note first and try not to report missing commands as they are still actively being added.

Vim key bindings

We expect our Vim key bindings to be standard. You can find a Vim key binding cheat sheet here: Devhints.io Vim cheatsheet