WhichKey helps you remember your Neovim keymaps, by showing available keybindings in a popup as you type.
classic
, modern
, and helix
presets or customize the window.local
, order
, group
, alphanum
, mod
, lower
, icase
, desc
, or manual
.timeoutlen
<esc>
Install the plugin with your package manager:
{ "folke/which-key.nvim", event = "VeryLazy", opts = { -- your configuration comes here -- or leave it empty to use the default settings -- refer to the configuration section below }, keys = { { "<leader>?", function() require("which-key").show({ global = false }) end, desc = "Buffer Local Keymaps (which-key)", }, }, }
Important
Make sure to run :checkhealth which-key
if something isn't working properly
WhichKey is highly configurable. Expand to see the list of all the default options below.
Default Options---@class wk.Opts local defaults = { ---@type false | "classic" | "modern" | "helix" preset = "classic", -- Delay before showing the popup. Can be a number or a function that returns a number. ---@type number | fun(ctx: { keys: string, mode: string, plugin?: string }):number delay = function(ctx) return ctx.plugin and 0 or 200 end, ---@param mapping wk.Mapping filter = function(mapping) -- example to exclude mappings without a description -- return mapping.desc and mapping.desc ~= "" return true end, --- You can add any mappings here, or use `require('which-key').add()` later ---@type wk.Spec spec = {}, -- show a warning when issues were detected with your mappings notify = true, -- Which-key automatically sets up triggers for your mappings. -- But you can disable this and setup the triggers manually. -- Check the docs for more info. ---@type wk.Spec triggers = { { "<auto>", mode = "nxso" }, }, -- Start hidden and wait for a key to be pressed before showing the popup -- Only used by enabled xo mapping modes. ---@param ctx { mode: string, operator: string } defer = function(ctx) return ctx.mode == "V" or ctx.mode == "<C-V>" end, plugins = { marks = true, -- shows a list of your marks on ' and ` registers = true, -- shows your registers on " in NORMAL or <C-r> in INSERT mode -- the presets plugin, adds help for a bunch of default keybindings in Neovim -- No actual key bindings are created spelling = { enabled = true, -- enabling this will show WhichKey when pressing z= to select spelling suggestions suggestions = 20, -- how many suggestions should be shown in the list? }, presets = { operators = true, -- adds help for operators like d, y, ... motions = true, -- adds help for motions text_objects = true, -- help for text objects triggered after entering an operator windows = true, -- default bindings on <c-w> nav = true, -- misc bindings to work with windows z = true, -- bindings for folds, spelling and others prefixed with z g = true, -- bindings for prefixed with g }, }, ---@type wk.Win.opts win = { -- don't allow the popup to overlap with the cursor no_overlap = true, -- width = 1, -- height = { min = 4, max = 25 }, -- col = 0, -- row = math.huge, -- border = "none", padding = { 1, 2 }, -- extra window padding [top/bottom, right/left] title = true, title_pos = "center", zindex = 1000, -- Additional vim.wo and vim.bo options bo = {}, wo = { -- winblend = 10, -- value between 0-100 0 for fully opaque and 100 for fully transparent }, }, layout = { width = { min = 20 }, -- min and max width of the columns spacing = 3, -- spacing between columns }, keys = { scroll_down = "<c-d>", -- binding to scroll down inside the popup scroll_up = "<c-u>", -- binding to scroll up inside the popup }, ---@type (string|wk.Sorter)[] --- Mappings are sorted using configured sorters and natural sort of the keys --- Available sorters: --- * local: buffer-local mappings first --- * order: order of the items (Used by plugins like marks / registers) --- * group: groups last --- * alphanum: alpha-numerical first --- * mod: special modifier keys last --- * manual: the order the mappings were added --- * case: lower-case first sort = { "local", "order", "group", "alphanum", "mod" }, ---@type number|fun(node: wk.Node):boolean? expand = 0, -- expand groups when <= n mappings -- expand = function(node) -- return not node.desc -- expand all nodes without a description -- end, -- Functions/Lua Patterns for formatting the labels ---@type table<string, ({[1]:string, [2]:string}|fun(str:string):string)[]> replace = { key = { function(key) return require("which-key.view").format(key) end, -- { "<Space>", "SPC" }, }, desc = { { "<Plug>%(?(.*)%)?", "%1" }, { "^%+", "" }, { "<[cC]md>", "" }, { "<[cC][rR]>", "" }, { "<[sS]ilent>", "" }, { "^lua%s+", "" }, { "^call%s+", "" }, { "^:%s*", "" }, }, }, icons = { breadcrumb = "»", -- symbol used in the command line area that shows your active key combo separator = "➜", -- symbol used between a key and it's label group = "+", -- symbol prepended to a group ellipsis = "…", -- set to false to disable all mapping icons, -- both those explicitly added in a mapping -- and those from rules mappings = true, --- See `lua/which-key/icons.lua` for more details --- Set to `false` to disable keymap icons from rules ---@type wk.IconRule[]|false rules = {}, -- use the highlights from mini.icons -- When `false`, it will use `WhichKeyIcon` instead colors = true, -- used by key format keys = { Up = " ", Down = " ", Left = " ", Right = " ", C = " ", M = " ", D = " ", S = " ", CR = " ", Esc = " ", ScrollWheelDown = " ", ScrollWheelUp = " ", NL = " ", BS = "", Space = " ", Tab = " ", F1 = "", F2 = "", F3 = "", F4 = "", F5 = "", F6 = "", F7 = "", F8 = "", F9 = "", F10 = "", F11 = "", F12 = "", }, }, show_help = true, -- show a help message in the command line for using WhichKey show_keys = true, -- show the currently pressed key and its label as a message in the command line -- disable WhichKey for certain buf types and file types. disable = { ft = {}, bt = {}, }, debug = false, -- enable wk.log in the current directory }
WhichKey automatically gets the descriptions of your keymaps from the desc
attribute of the keymap. So for most use-cases, you don't need to do anything else.
However, the mapping spec is still useful to configure group descriptions and mappings that don't really exist as a regular keymap.
Warning
The mappings spec changed in v3
, so make sure to only use the new add
method if you updated your existing mappings.
Mappings can be added as part of the config opts.spec
, or can be added later using require("which-key").add()
. wk.add()
can be called multiple times from anywhere in your config files.
A mapping has the following attributes:
string
) lhs (required)string|fun()
) rhs (optional): when present, it will create the mappingstring|fun():string
) description (required for non-groups)string|fun():string
) group name (optional)string|string[]
) mode (optional, defaults to "n"
)boolean|fun():boolean
) condition to enable the mapping (optional)boolean
) hide the mapping (optional)string|wk.Icon|fun():(wk.Icon|string)
) icon spec (optional)string
) proxy to another mapping (optional)fun():wk.Spec
) nested mappings (optional)vim.keymap.set
. These are only used for creating mappings.When desc
, group
, or icon
are functions, they are evaluated every time the popup is shown.
The expand
property allows to create dynamic mappings. Only functions as rhs
are supported for dynamic mappings. Two examples are included in which-key.extras
:
require("which-key.extras").expand.buf
: creates numerical key to buffer mappingsrequire("which-key.extras").expand.win
: creates numerical key to window mappingslocal wk = require("which-key") wk.add({ { "<leader>f", group = "file" }, -- group { "<leader>ff", "<cmd>Telescope find_files<cr>", desc = "Find File", mode = "n" }, { "<leader>fb", function() print("hello") end, desc = "Foobar" }, { "<leader>fn", desc = "New File" }, { "<leader>f1", hidden = true }, -- hide this keymap { "<leader>w", proxy = "<c-w>", group = "windows" }, -- proxy to window mappings { "<leader>b", group = "buffers", expand = function() return require("which-key.extras").expand.buf() end }, { -- Nested mappings are allowed and can be added in any order -- Most attributes can be inherited or overridden on any level -- There's no limit to the depth of nesting mode = { "n", "v" }, -- NORMAL and VISUAL mode { "<leader>q", "<cmd>q<cr>", desc = "Quit" }, -- no need to specify mode since it's inherited { "<leader>w", "<cmd>w<cr>", desc = "Write" }, } })
There's two ways that which-key can be triggered:
ModeChanged
event for visual and operator pending modeBoth can be configured using opts.triggers
and opts.defer
.
By default opts.triggers
includes { "<auto>", mode = "nixsotc" }
, which will setup keymap triggers for every mode automatically and will trigger during ModeChanged
.
Note
Auto triggers will never be created for existing keymaps. That includes every valid single key Neovim builtin mapping. If you want to trigger on a builtin keymap, you have to add it manually.
triggers = { { "<auto>", mode = "nixsotc" }, { "a", mode = { "n", "v" } }, }
Tip
To manually setup triggers, you can set opts.triggers
to:
triggers = { { "<leader>", mode = { "n", "v" } }, }
For ModeChanged
triggers, you can configure the opts.defer
option. When it returns true
, the popup will be shown only after an additional key is pressed. So yaf
, would show which-key after pressing ya
, but not after y
.
Tip
Defer some operators:
---@param ctx { mode: string, operator: string } defer = function(ctx) if vim.list_contains({ "d", "y" }, ctx.operator) then return true end return vim.list_contains({ "<C-V>", "V" }, ctx.mode) end,
There's multiple ways to set icons for your keymaps:
<leader>g
for example, to apply to all git keymaps.The icon
attribute of a mapping can be a string
, which will be used as the actual icon, or an wk.Icon
object, which can have the following attributes:
icon
(string
): the icon to use (optional)hl
(string
): the highlight group to use for the icon (optional)color
(string
): the color to use for the icon (optional) valid colors are: azure
, blue
, cyan
, green
, grey
, orange
, purple
, red
, yellow
cat
(string
): the category of the icon (optional) valid categories are: file
, filetype
, extension
name
(string
): the name of the icon in the specified category (optional)Tip
If you'd rather not use icons, you can disable them by setting opts.icons.mappings
to false
.
When the WhichKey popup is open, you can use the following key bindings (they are also displayed at the bottom of the screen):
<esc>
to cancel and close the popup<bs>
go up one level<c-d>
scroll down<c-u>
scroll upHydra mode is a special mode that keeps the popup open until you hit <esc>
.
-- Show hydra mode for changing windows require("which-key").show({ keys = "<c-w>", loop = true, -- this will keep the popup open until you hit <esc> })
Four built-in plugins are included with WhichKey.
Built-in key binding help for motions
, text-objects
, operators
, windows
, nav
, z
and g
and more.
Shows a list of your buffer local and global marks when you hit ` or '
Shows a list of your buffer local and global registers when you hit " in NORMAL mode, or <c-r>
in INSERT mode.
When enabled, this plugin hooks into z=
and replaces the full-screen spelling suggestions window by a list of suggestions within WhichKey.
The table below shows all the highlight groups defined for WhichKey with their default link.
Highlight Group Default Group Description WhichKey Function WhichKeyBorder FloatBorder Border of the which-key window WhichKeyDesc Identifier description WhichKeyGroup Keyword group name WhichKeyIcon @markup.link icons WhichKeyIconAzure Function WhichKeyIconBlue DiagnosticInfo WhichKeyIconCyan DiagnosticHint WhichKeyIconGreen DiagnosticOk WhichKeyIconGrey Normal WhichKeyIconOrange DiagnosticWarn WhichKeyIconPurple Constant WhichKeyIconRed DiagnosticError WhichKeyIconYellow DiagnosticWarn WhichKeyNormal NormalFloat Normal in th which-key window WhichKeySeparator Comment the separator between the key and its description WhichKeyTitle FloatTitle Title of the which-key window WhichKeyValue Comment values by plugins (like marks, registers, etc)RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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