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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by eviks »

Barrin92 wrote: post #136
WD-42 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VSCode (and all Electron based editors) have undeniable input latency. Zed is built by the same team that developed Atom and Electron and one of their stated goals is to make up for the shortcomings of these technologies. If you don't feel that VSCode is slow, it's because you are used to it.

>If you don't feel that VSCode is slow, it's because you are used to it. I don't think this is a fair claim. When you start doing an apples to apples comparison, that is to say make full use of IDE and auto-completion features it's difficult to see a difference given that the latency and speed of the plugins starts to dominate any millisecond difference in input latency or rendering speed.

The difference in startup speed is measured in seconds, bit milliseconds. And difference in input speed can be dozens of ms, which is also noticeable

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by fatata123 »

IshKebab wrote: post #113
pimeys wrote: post #68

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It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.

VSCode is actually not slow. The problem is to make it useful you need to add quite a few extensions, and those can be slow. That itself wouldn't be too bad but VSCode doesn't expose any information about what is causing the slowness. You end up with "VSCode is slow and it could be due to any one of the dozen extensions I have installed", which effectively means that VSCode is slow. It remains to be seen if Zed can a…

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by fatata123 »

rtfeldman wrote: post #187
jm4 wrote: post #46

Not sure if anyone from Zed is here. I tried this out and got the following error: Internal error: { "details": "can't load supported slash commands" }

We just pushed a fix! Here's how to get it: - Start a new Claude Code Thread, which will kick off the background download of the new Claude Code ACP adapter. - Wait a few seconds, then start another Claude Code Thread. The new thread will use the updated one. We're working on a nicer UX for getting updated versions, which we'll definitely ship before Claude Code support leaves beta!

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by FrenchTouch42 »

iknowstuff wrote: post #339
gm678 wrote: post #198

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For what it's worth, I think Zed now has a default keybind to open settings.json: Ctrl+, I assume that keybind is also configurable?

protip on macOS cmd+, is the standard keybind for opening any app's settings.

Minus web browsers. I read your comment and literally zoomed haha. Totally blanked out.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by andreygrehov »

mac-monet wrote: post #329
scottcorgan wrote: post #192

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I'll third this. AI autocomplete is THE most efficient and helpful feature of Cursor, not the agents.

I have recently been using Zed much more than cursor. However, the autocomplete is literally the only thing missing, and when dealing with refactors or code with tons of boilerplate, its just unbeatable. Eagerly awaiting a better autocomplete model and I can finally ditch Cursor.

Out of curiosity, why not just stick to Cursor instead?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by SquidJack »

hajile wrote: post #193
ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…

I was somewhat surprised to find that Zed still doesn't have a way to add your own local autocomplete AI using something like Ollama. Something like Qwen 2.5 coder at a tiny 1.5b parameters will work just fine for the stuff that I want. It runs fast and works when I'm between internet connections too. I'd also like to see a company like Zed allow me to buy a license of their autocomplete AI model to run locally rathe…

thats why i created myself nanocoder 0.5b FT for autocomplete in couple of days going to release a v2 version much better

https://huggingface.co/srisree/nano_coder

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by nkantar »

FrenchTouch42 wrote: post #344
iknowstuff wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

protip on macOS cmd+, is the standard keybind for opening any app's settings.

Minus web browsers. I read your comment and literally zoomed haha. Totally blanked out.

They mean holding the Command key when pressing the comma key, which should work.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by ffin »

cnqso wrote: post #162
ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…

What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app

I find Zed has some really frustrating UX choices. I’ll run an operation and it will either fail quietly, or be running in the background for a while with no indication that it is doing so.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by barkerja »

andreygrehov wrote: post #345
mac-monet wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have recently been using Zed much more than cursor. However, the autocomplete is literally the only thing missing, and when dealing with refactors or code with tons of boilerplate, its just unbeatable. Eagerly awaiting a better autocomplete model and I can finally ditch Cursor.

Out of curiosity, why not just stick to Cursor instead?

For me, the editor is still the most important component of my tooling. The AI features are secondary to my needs/wants when it comes to an editor.

Zed is hitting all the checkboxes when it comes to performance and user experience (yeah, I care about that in my editor).

I'm not a hardcore user of AI, but I do make use of Zed's inline suggestions and occasional use of Opus 4.1 through my Zed subscription.

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