Rebinding cmd-j and cmd-k to navigate in menus?

[nelsonr]

Hi,

I'm trying to rebind the keys to navigate up and down on the menus (e.g. "Search project files...").

I managed to rebind cmd-j to move down but trying to rebind cmd-k to move up never seems to work. This is what I have so far.

{
  "bindings": {
    "cmd-j": "menu::SelectNext",
    "cmd-k": "menu::SelectPrev"
  }
}

I tried to check if there was a specific context for the Menu but it doesn't seem that there's one.

[Moshyfawn]

I believe this is because cmd-k is the first "chord" keypress: I modifier, if you will, to allow another layer of keypresses like cmd-k cmd-w (2 chords).

[nelsonr]

Yes, that was also what I thought.

Meanwhile, I switched it to use ctrl-j and ctrl-k, which is fine as well.

It would be nice to have the option of overriding it in specific contexts.

[nelsonr]

After checking it again. I noticed that it actually works, but since there's a delay, due to it being a chord, it's not immediately noticeable. It also works for context menus, with the same behavior.

[nelsonr]

Ok, so I believe I found a solution.

In order to be possible to use cmd-k as its own keybinding, it requires disabling all the default chords where it's used. This can be done by copying all instances of it from the default keymap into your keymap and then setting everything to null.

With this, Zed will no longer introduce a delay when using cmd-k.

[
  {
    "context": "Workspace",
    "bindings": {
      "cmd-k s": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-s": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-t": null,
      "cmd-k m": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-left": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-right": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-up": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-down": null,
      "cmd-k shift-left": null,
      "cmd-k shift-right": null,
      "cmd-k shift-up": null,
      "cmd-k shift-down": null
    }
  },
  {
    "context": "Pane",
    "bindings": {
      "cmd-k u": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-w": null,
      "cmd-k up": null,
      "cmd-k down": null,
      "cmd-k left": null,
      "cmd-k right": null
    }
  },
  {
    "context": "Editor",
    "bindings": {
      "cmd-k cmd-d": null,
      "cmd-k ctrl-cmd-d": null,
      "cmd-k cmd-i": null
    }
  },
  {
    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
    "bindings": {
      "cmd-k enter": null
    }
  },
]