Honest question - why use Zed, other than it is fast and “not VS Code”?
vscode has gotten way to bloated in recent years in my opinion. zed is just a really fresh Beath of air.
Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
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Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#42For anyone using Zed, how extensive is its ability to be configured/modded to emulate other editor behaviors, bindings, etc? Eg i want something akin to Helix, but i'm not interested in Zeds Vim mode. Nor am i interested in a straight Helix mode, as my own Helix usage is quite customized. Can i make my own Modes trees like Helix/etc offers? I'm aware of https://zed.dev/docs/helix , just not sure what the UX is to cus…
Don’t think you can do your own modes:
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/38e5c8fb66ac19f58... allows custom keybinds to actions
Modes look to be hardcoded (at the moment) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/vim/s...
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#43Okay, but what about Claude Code, the coding agent people actually use?
It’s working already, just not yet exposed in the UI.
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#44This in theory means you can use QwenCoder too since it’s a fork of Gemini CLI?
There is an open feature request https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/issues/88
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#45I like Zed. It's super fast and seems to be getting lots of improvement constantly. My issue with it is when I use it on my codebase, it doesn't like my (probably old style) eslintrc. So it decides to go ahead and reformat my file on save :(.
I would love to love Zed. In practice it’s everything I want.
But it’s a text editor first. And what I want, and it’s non negotiable, in a text editor is good text editing. Except font rendering is atrocious and broken on Linux ( what I use ) and on Windows ( what my employer force me to use ).
I understand it’s an alpha / beta. But still
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#46Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#47Okay, but what about Claude Code, the coding agent people actually use?
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconding this, it's the only editor other than emacs that has a vim-mode that feels like it's maintained by a long term vim user.
Any highlights?
It just feels smooth, like if you were in a modern vim. In most other editors that attempt implementing a vim mode, something constantly breaks the illusion. There are some some little annoyances in zed, but they are mostly behavior differences you can get used to. And they are still working on it, so I really see it as a new imagination of vim with many useful features built-in, like TS-based motions, or the way AI edit predictions work doesn't break the vim editing flow.
Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
#49When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.
I was extremely skeptical about Zed being a VC-backed company. A couple of days ago, I did some research, saw that the project is really being developed in the open, it's fully open source, and they are constantly adding ways to use the AI features without paying them money. So I decided to try it, and as a long-time vim user, I was sold. It's what neovim should have been once they forked. You could get these modern features in neovim with plugins, but the plugins constantly keep breaking. I'm really happy that I decided to give it a chance, and I don't see the project dying after the VC money is gone.