Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by mxstbr » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 6:37 PM UTC

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

#2

Post by tengbretson » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

I've found Zed's vim mode to be great for learning vim without having to give up all of my muscle memory built up from using vscode for so long.

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by squidsoup » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

I’m currently using VS Code with the Neovim extension. Has anyone migrated to Zed from Code? Curious what your experience has been.

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by jmclnx » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

When I hear about zed, I have to think for a bit to realize it is not zed.exe that came with Zortech c v1.0 for MS-DOS :)

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by bww » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

I’ve also recently switched (largely) from Vim to Zed and I also think that Zed is in many ways great.

At the same time it’s been pretty frustrating to use an editor that is spending so much time building AI integrations, REPLs, and so fourth when basic things like cut and paste and common Vim motions still have so many bugs.

I’d love to see them prioritize getting the basics solid first.

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by jph00 » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:22 PM UTC

bww wrote: post #5

I’ve also recently switched (largely) from Vim to Zed and I also think that Zed is in many ways great. At the same time it’s been pretty frustrating to use an editor that is spending so much time building AI integrations, REPLs, and so fourth when basic things like cut and paste and common Vim motions still have so many bugs. I’d love to see them prioritize getting the basics solid first.

Yeah I feel the same way. The fact that Zed uses the system clipboard as the default register in vim mode, for instance, made it impossible to use in practice for me -- having every yank replace my clipboard was a bit of a nightmare!

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by riz_ » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:23 PM UTC

I'm wondering if the author ever tried one of the many neovim distributions, which solve a lot of the problem they're describing. All of the plugins and integrations necessary are already set up to create a nice fully featured IDE-style environment. E.g. LazyVim, AstroVim or NvChad

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by AlexErrant » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:25 PM UTC

I die inside whenever I use `\` for word boundary regex. Neovim has no plans to change this either. I'll likely switch eventually so I don't have to know two flavors of regex. One is hard enough.

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by bibanez » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:27 PM UTC

I used Zed on Linux and liked it a lot... until I couldn't write a space in english layout (still worked on alternative layouts). Strange

Re: Leaving Neovim for Zed

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Post by saghm » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

squidsoup wrote: post #3

I’m currently using VS Code with the Neovim extension. Has anyone migrated to Zed from Code? Curious what your experience has been.

I've used VS Code for my Rust development for several years, and I tried out Zed for a couple weeks earlier in the summer. The integration with `rust-analyzer` wasn't super smooth though, so I've switched back for now but would consider trying it again when it's more mature.