Helix: static commands & custom keymap binding

[jmevel]

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Problem

In Helix, Ctrl-s is not saving the current buffer but instead saving the cursor's position (command: save_selection).
This PR was recently merged which makes Zed behave the same as native Helix.

I personally like to bind Ctrl + s to execute a save_selection command but also perform a :write (short: :w).
To get this behavior here is what I have in my helix config.toml file:

[keys.normal]
"C-s" = ["save_selection", ":write"]

This file isn't interpreted by Zed so I wanted to make a custom binding in my keymap.json however I'm hitting two issues when trying to do that:

• First of all, a simple binding like this doesn't work: "ctrl-s": ["workspace::SendKeystrokes", ":write enter"]
  I honestly don't know why
• Also it doesn't seem possible to execute the save_selection command in any way. In Helix, static commands can be accessed by doing <space>? but trying that in Zed doesn't work. The ? is immediately interpreted as a search action instead of letting us execute a static command.

Anything I missed ?

Is there any workaround I haven't think about to solve either the first or the second issue (or even both !!!) ?
Even if that doesn't get me to my final goal, I'd love being able to solve one issue or the other.

Should I open proper Github issues ?

Let me know what you think of it. I don't mind opening one or two issues to track both problems even if the implementation takes a while. I think it would be better tracking them outside of a "discussion"

Thanks for your answers

[jmevel]

Ok, I actually just found out in this file that the save_location static command can be executed by doing a editor::SaveLocation

And I also solved the issue of "ctrl-s": ["workspace::SendKeystrokes", ":write enter"] not working: I needed to add a space between : and write

A working binding could then be written like this

"ctrl-s": [
  "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
  ": editor::SaveLocation enter : write enter",
],

Or also like this

"ctrl-s": [
  "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
  ": editor::SaveLocation enter : workspace::Save enter",
],

Discussion closed, I just needed a tiny bit more of research actually.