vim: QWERTZ keyboard breaks ^ to move to begin of the line

[vpereira]

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I am on vim mode, and pressing ^ don't move the cursor to the first word of the line as expected, and works on vim/nvim. I can fallback pressing 0, but i want to understand if it's a problem on my environment or bug.

Environment

Zed: v0.158.2 (Zed)
OS: macOS 14.4.0
Memory: 36 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

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[skejeton]

Works just fine for me. Do you happen to use a different keyboard layout? On US keyboards, for instance, the caret character is on the number row (Number 6).

In some keyboard layouts, it's either positioned in the home row, or can be a combining character, which will not immediately send a key press to the program as it awaits another key press, in this case you would need to input the caret symbol and then press enter.

As far as I know, Zed adapts to the keyboard layout instead of using scan codes, similarly to Vim.

[JunkuiZhang]

Yeah, this sounds like a keyboard layout thing.

[vpereira]

Works just fine for me. Do you happen to use a different keyboard layout? On US keyboards, for instance, the caret character is on the number row (Number 6).

Yes a standard macbook M3 german keyboard.

As far as I know, Zed adapts to the keyboard layout instead of using scan codes, similarly to Vim.

Yes i thought the same, vim and neovim work out of the box, with this keyboard layout, zed for some reason couldn't figure it out. Any idea how to debug it further?

[JunkuiZhang]

How to type ^ on german layout?

[vpereira]

How to type ^ on german layout?

its located top left.

[JunkuiZhang]

I assume that this key is a dead key? As someone from China, I'm not familiar with dead keys, so I have a few questions:

• On your keyboard layout, do you need to press ^ + space to output the ^ character?
• When using nvim or vim, do you use ^ + space to move the cursor to the beginning of the line? Or something else?

[vpereira]

Hey @JunkuiZhang, thank you for your help!

On your keyboard layout, do you need to press ^ + space to output the ^ character

No, I just press the key on the top left (as depicted in the image) and it works

When using nvim or vim, do you use ^ + space to move the cursor to the beginning of the line? Or something else?

I just use the ^ and it moves to the begin of the line - or to be precise, to the first word of the line. So nvim and vim it works as expected. With zed in vim mode however doesn't.

[ConradIrwin]

Thanks for reporting, this is a bug, and I'll add it to the list for revamping as part of #17031

[JunkuiZhang]

Hey @JunkuiZhang, thank you for your help!

On your keyboard layout, do you need to press ^ + space to output the ^ character

No, I just press the key on the top left (as depicted in the image) and it works

When using nvim or vim, do you use ^ + space to move the cursor to the beginning of the line? Or something else?

I just use the ^ and it moves to the begin of the line - or to be precise, to the first word of the line. So nvim and vim it works as expected. With zed in vim mode however doesn't.

Do you also only need to press the ^ key to output the ^ character in insert mode? I did a simple test on Windows and found that I need to press ^ space to produce the ^ character. Additionally, in Vim, I also have to use ^ space to move the cursor.

[vpereira]

Do you also only need to press the ^ key to output the ^ character in insert mode?

In Vim, and in Zed, in insert mode, just pressing ^ is enough to print the ^ character.

[JunkuiZhang]

In Vim, and in Zed, in insert mode, just pressing ^ is enough to print the ^ character.

Interesting, so I guess macOS handle this differently from Windows. BTW, I'm gonna buy an ISO german keyboard for testing, dose the keyboard look the same with the one you are using?

And is the left-bottom Strg key a ctrl key?

[vpereira]

Interesting, so I guess macOS handle this differently from Windows. BTW, I'm gonna buy an ISO german keyboard for testing, dose the keyboard look the same with the one you are using?

Yes

And is the left-bottom Strg key a ctrl key?

Yes! "strg" means "Steuerung" which translates to "Control"

[JunkuiZhang]

Interesting, so I guess macOS handle this differently from Windows. BTW, I'm gonna buy an ISO german keyboard for testing, dose the keyboard look the same with the one you are using?

Yes

And is the left-bottom Strg key a ctrl key?

Yes! "strg" means "Steuerung" which translates to "Control"

Great, thanks!