editor on Saurabh Kumar

Vim motion tips for Zed

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:01 +0000

Vim motion tips for Zed. Turn on relative line numbers, and let vim mode switch them to absolute in Insert mode, so you get jump distances in Normal mode and context while typing.

{ "relative_line_numbers": true, "vim": { "toggle_relative_line_numbers": true } }

[[ / ]] jump between function definitions in a large Django or FastAPI file.
f: moves to the end of an if, def or class line.

Hidden Gems: Community Edition

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Zed’s Hidden Gems: Community Edition thread collects users’ favourite Zed features and workflows, a companion to Hidden Gems: Team Edition. One tip from it: point agent.commit_message_model at gemini-2.0-flash on a free Gemini API key to write commit messages.

panphora/overtype

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

panphora/overtype: The markdown editor that’s just a textarea with a small size footprint and a minimum looking UI https://overtype.dev (⭐3431)

Navigating VS Code terminals from the keyboard

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

VS Code’s built-in terminals are hard to move between from the keyboard. These keybindings.json entries fix it, adapted from jbranchaud’s TIL:

cmd+[ / cmd+]: previous / next terminal
cmd+1 to cmd+5: terminal by position
cmd+n: new terminal; cmd+w: kill it
cmd+t: toggle between terminal and editor

{ "key": "cmd+]", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNext", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+[", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+1", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusAtIndex1", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+2", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusAtIndex2", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+3", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusAtIndex3", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+4", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusAtIndex4", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+5", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusAtIndex5", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+n", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.new", "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported" },
{ "key": "cmd+w", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.kill", "when": "terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+t", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus", "when": "!terminalFocus" },
{ "key": "cmd+t", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal" }