"Peekaboo"-like UI for Vim registers

[ddbrierton]

As Zed builds out its support for Vim registers it would be nice to have a pleasing UI for them. There is a popular plugin for Vim called vim-peekaboo and there is similar functionality in neovim + LazyVim although in the latter case I am unsure which specific plugin provides the functionality. Typing " in normal mode, or ctrl-R in insert mode brings up a UI element listing the contents of the registers together with their name.

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I would love to see something similar in Zed.

[domi413]

#10910

[ddbrierton]

While a full Which-Key like UI would certainly be nice, if they choose not to go down that route there is still a case for a UI for the registers. I was thinking very much along the lines of what they currently have implemented for :reg, only being triggered automatically by typing " or ctrl-R.

[ddbrierton]

I should add: I don't mean that " and ctrl-R should be aliases for :reg, obviously I could do that now by setting those keymaps. I mean that having pressed " you should be able to continue by either the normal Vim way, e.g. ap or by using the up and down arrows and pressing return. Currently :reg only allows the latter.