Give users a way to know which vim mode is on currently pragmatically

[nikitavoloboev]

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Describe the feature

I write quite a bit of Rust now as I imagine @zed-industries does too.

I want to build this use case:

When in normal mode and a line is selected like so:

I want to add ; to the end of the line.

If however I am in insert mode, I want to just insert ;.

To achieve this, I need to know what vim mode I am currently on. Give users a way to know it please.

Thank you.

[ConradIrwin]

Hey @nikitavoloboev – what are you using to automate this?

In the keyboard bindings file we have a notion of mode (it's not well documented yet, but see here: #5337).

We don't yet have a way to do a "remap" in the vim style (I assume you do something like :nmap ; A;<escape> in vim to make this work), so you won't yet be able to instruct Zed to insert a specific character at the end of the line from the keyboard bindings file.

[nikitavoloboev]

Hey @nikitavoloboev – what are you using to automate this?

So related to this, I really need this supported by Zed:

#4474

Basically if above is supported and I can get the current line number and file path.

I can then under the hood, press that keybind and trigger a CLI that would run some transformation on the current file/line I am working on.

For example for above case, it will know that if I am at end of line and the file is a rust file, add ; to end of line. If its a rust file but I am not at end of line, then add ; to end of line instead. If neither of those cases is true, do something else.

I can't do any of that if I can't get the information of current file open and current line active from Zed.

Hope my use case is clear and it can be added. ♥️

[ConradIrwin]

Makes sense, thanks for explaining!

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