Replace mode in Vim

[schacon]

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I'm having a very hard time using the vim mode, as it doesn't appear to support the replace mode.

It's pure muscle memory for me now, so I had to look up what I was even doing, but when I hit 'r' I expect the editor to go into 'replace mode' where typing will start overwriting characters. I do this so often that it makes vim mode very difficult for me to use.

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[crawshaw]

Note that r appears to be supported now, which in vim means "replace the current character with whatever character is typed next.

What is not yet supported is R which is multi-character replace mode (which keeps tripping me up).

[schacon]

@crawshaw yeah, that's what I'm doing. but it's so commonly used for me that it's very difficult to use a vim mode without it.

[weartist]

writing a code to support that feature, and I'll commit an MR later

[ConradIrwin]

This is merged and should land in Zed 0.128 (due to Preview on Wednesday, and stable a week later)

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