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Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by wolfadex »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #16
wolfadex wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me the "killer feature" is a graphical editor (like VSCode or the Jet Brains editors) but with performance more like vim. I'm also very much enjoying the modal editing, which VSCode lacks.

>> I'm also very much enjoying the modal editing, which VSCode lacks. The VSCode Vim plugin works great: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevi...

When I specified the modal editing I was referring to how the workspace search in Zed brings up each result in an editable "window" allowing me to make edits across my whole project from 1 tab. VSCode's workspace search feels much more limited in comparison.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by Zambyte »

wolfadex wrote: post #8
lbhdc wrote: post #2

Zed seems like its gotten a lot of buzz on HN, and its great to see new players in the space. For those who have used it, what are some of the killer features?

For me the "killer feature" is a graphical editor (like VSCode or the Jet Brains editors) but with performance more like vim. I'm also very much enjoying the modal editing, which VSCode lacks.

FWIW Emacs also fits that bill.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by riiii »

I don't know if it's just me but vscode feels like it isn't as fast as it used to be. The terminal also keeps getting messed up on Linux.

Will definitely try one this out!

Although the amount of plugins and community knowledge of vscode is immense.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by choilive »

gavmor wrote: post #13
choilive wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its killer feature seems to be speed. Otherwise I dont see much of a reason to use it over VS Code.

Have you had much success with VS Code's multiplayer extensions? I've found them buggy to the point of useless, but maybe things have improved. Zed, on the otherhand, is developed by people who understand pair programming, which is my priority.

No not much experience there since multiplayer editing has never really been a part of my personal workflow (mostly a lot of screensharing), but I can definitely see that being useful for people that use it regularly.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by pcthrowaway »

lbhdc wrote: post #2

Zed seems like its gotten a lot of buzz on HN, and its great to see new players in the space. For those who have used it, what are some of the killer features?

I haven't used Zed in the last year, but Zed's search across codebase display was divine. I don't want to necessarily open the file when looking at search results to see additional context in the matching sections. Zed brings up a view with all the results where you can expand context, and IIRC even edit in the results panel without having to open the entire file.

It's also collaboration-first, and unlike VS code, I believe the software behind collaboration mode is open source

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by whalesalad »

deciduously wrote: post #31
whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

Pipe the script to cat before you pipe it to sh and take a look. It's downloading an executable to ~/.local/bin. If that's not your preference, there are many other options for obtaining the software, via your distribution or manually. I feel the backlash to this pattern is pretty overblown. They're not attempting to hide anything, just make the common case convenient.

Sure, but that convenience will come to bite you later. What happens when you want to update it?

Their full install docs is like 5 lines of code so it is much preferred to do it that way. Every distribution is different. The ideal install here would be to add a unique apt repo for zed and then it becomes part of my normal update process. Updating a binary in a directory is not the end of the world... but I would prefer to know that upfront versus needing to hunt down where it was placed in order to do the updates.

edit its 4 lines. seeing this is much preferred to parsing a bash script that is intended to support all distributions:

    wget https://zed.dev/api/releases/stable/latest/zed-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
    mkdir -p ~/.local
    tar -xvf zed-linux-x86_64.tar.gz -C ~/.local
    ln -sf ~/.local/bin/zed ~/.local/zed.app/bin/zed

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by igorguerrero »

whalesalad wrote: post #15

Really dislike the one line installer. How is it installing? Flatpak? Adding an apt repo? Manual install? Fortunately docs go into better detail, https://zed.dev/docs/linux I'm on Debian anyway so who am I kidding expecting this to be in apt :D

I hope it gets packaged, on NixOS there's a package already on stable and unstable.
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