ZIm/crates/vim
Evan Simkowitz 607a9445fc
editor: Add minimap (#26893)
## Overview

This PR adds the minimap feature to the Zed editor, closely following
the [design from Visual Studio
Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_minimap).
When configured, a second instance of the editor will appear to the left
of the scrollbar. This instance is not interactive and it has a slimmed
down set of annotations, but it is otherwise just a zoomed-out version
of the main editor instance. A thumb shows the line boundaries of the
main viewport, as well as the progress through the document. Clicking on
a section of code in the minimap will jump the editor to that code.
Dragging the thumb will act like the scrollbar, moving sequentially
through the document.

![screenshot of Zed with three editors open and the minimap enabled,
showing the
slider](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4178d23a-a5ea-4e38-b871-06dd2a8f9560)

## New settings

This adds a `minimap` section to the editor settings with the following
keys:

### `show`

When to show the minimap in the editor.
This setting can take three values:
1. Show the minimap if the editor's scrollbar is visible: `"auto"`
2. Always show the minimap: `"always"`
3. Never show the minimap: `"never"` (default)

### `thumb`

When to show the minimap thumb.
This setting can take two values:
1. Show the minimap thumb if the mouse is over the minimap: `"hover"`
2. Always show the minimap thumb: `"always"` (default)

### `width`

The width of the minimap in pixels.

Default: `100`

### `font_size`

The font size of the minimap in pixels.

Default: `2`

## Providing feedback

In order to keep the PR focused on development updates, please use the
discussion thread for feature suggestions and usability feedback: #26894


## Features left to add

- [x] fix scrolling performance
- [x] user settings for enable/disable, width, text size, etc.
- [x] show overview of visible lines in minimap
- [x] clicking on minimap should navigate to the corresponding section
of code
- ~[ ] more prominent highlighting in the minimap editor~
- ~[ ] override scrollbar auto setting to always when minimap is set to
always show~

Release Notes:

- Added minimap for high-level overview and quick navigation of editor
contents.

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Co-authored-by: MrSubidubi <dev@bahn.sh>
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@zed.dev>
2025-05-07 23:11:09 +03:00
..
src editor: Add minimap (#26893) 2025-05-07 23:11:09 +03:00
test_data vim: Fix r enter indentation (#29838) 2025-05-05 16:57:32 +01:00
Cargo.toml agent: Render diffs for the edit file tool (#29234) 2025-04-23 15:43:33 -03:00
LICENSE-GPL chore: Change AGPL-licensed crates to GPL (except for collab) (#4231) 2024-01-24 00:26:58 +01:00
README.md Correct other end visual block functionality (#27678) 2025-03-28 20:52:38 +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.