folke/which-key.nvim
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💥 Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey helps you remember your Neovim keymaps, by showing available keybindings in a popup as you type.
17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2021-07-03 · latest 2026-08-28
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Even as a fairly confident nvim user, I still use and recommend < https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim >
comment by smoothbraindev · 2026-08-28 · in GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven -
…neovim that shows a popup with possible keybinds and descriptions whenever you begin any keybind: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by TonyStr · 2026-01-21 · in I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool -
folke/which-key.nvim: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim : > Customizable Layouts: choose from classic, modern, and helix presets or customize the window. LazyVim keymaps: https://www.lazyvim.org/keymaps
comment by westurner · 2025-10-10 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim -
…for 20 years, but still can't get enough of which-key[1] which I only installed ~6 months ago. 1: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by tasn · 2025-10-10 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim -
If you only wanted to use that feature, you could install the whick-key plugin that LazyVim uses: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by EPendragon · 2025-08-05 · in Customizing tmux -
…[2] plugin that helps you learn vim motions. [1]: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim [2]: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by jannes · 2024-02-01 · in Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim -
…memorize different hotkeys for the editor. The plugin is called whichkey, and this is their github https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by Malcolmlisk · 2024-01-16 · in Modeless Vim -
One of the innovations in the Vim space that I've appreciated a lot is which-key by folke for Neovim: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim It makes keybindings in vim discoverable, it's quite magical. For example, press g and get a…
comment by kzrdude · 2023-08-06 · in My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation -
…and such, which I like on normal neovim because I'm a scrub and don't know vim hotkeys by heart 0: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by fire · 2022-11-22 · in VSCode-Neovim: Use embedded Neovim in VSCode without emulation -
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WhichKey: Helix's Command Display but in Neovimstory by behnamoh · 2022-11-07 · 0 comments
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If you're using Neovim you want this one: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim New nvim api lets mappings add a desc which will get picked up automatically with this plugin.
comment by Graziano_M · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor -
…to a key by default, like the example of the 'earlier' command mentioned higher in this thread. [0] https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim [1] https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-which-key
comment by imbnwa · 2022-07-29 · in History and effective use of Vim (2019) -
…in my head, probably because I don't use them so much. I recently came across the which-key.nvim ( https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim ) neovim plugin, which helped me a lot to speed up finding what movement I want to do. It basically…
comment by capableweb · 2022-04-15 · in Neovim 0.7 Released -
…[2] for something similar to this. [1]: https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-which-key [2]: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by anonova · 2021-11-06 · in Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor -
> Has enough introspektion to allow something like emacs which-keys? Yes. https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by 21eleven · 2021-08-30 · in Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt -
which-key.nvim too, plus more features. Really useful for remembering/learning new plugin mappings. https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
comment by maddyboo · 2021-07-03 · in Neovim v0.5