vim: Pasting using CMD+V in visual mode doesn't fully replace selected lines

[teowelton]

Summary

Pasting Using CMD+V in Visual Mode Doesn't Fully Replace Selected Lines

Description

When attempting to replace lines in standard vim, if you select lines using visual mode, then paste using CMD+v, it replaces all selected content. In zed, however, it replaces only after the cursor. If using p instead of CMD+v in Vim mode, it will fully replace the selected content.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Ensure Zed is in Vim mode
2. Add content to a file
3. Select lines to replace using visual mode (Shift+v), ensuring that the cursor is in the middle of a line
4. Use CMD+V to paste and replace selected content instead of p

Expected Behavior: All selected content is replaced with content from clipboard
Actual Behavior: Only selected content past the cursor is replaced with content from clipboard

Demo:

Screen.Recording.2025-11-03.at.12.00.12.mov

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.210.4 (Zed)
OS: macOS 26.0.1
Memory: 64 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

[teowelton]

Depending on the complexity, I would be happy to take on this issue, assuming I get a bit of guidance on where to look in the codebase, as I'm not too familiar with it currently :3

[smitbarmase]

Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this.

Please feel free to open a PR. You might want to check out how we handle paste in VIM mode here:

zed/crates/vim/src/vim.rs

Lines 923 to 932 in 74bf1a1

	Vim::action(
	editor,
	cx,
	|vim, _: &editor::actions::Paste, window, cx| match vim.mode {
	Mode::Replace => vim.paste_replace(window, cx),
	_ => {
	vim.update_editor(cx, |_, editor, cx| editor.paste(&Paste, window, cx));
	}
	},
	);

[adriandlam]

any updates @teowelton? would be happy to take this on

[teowelton]

Hey @adriandlam! I've been super busy with other stuff recently, feel free to take this on if you would like! Otherwise I'll get around to it within a couple weeks probably.