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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by jryio »

Zed is a durable piece of software, rather than the current trend of cheap disposable software. Regardless of whether humans or agents use a tool like this, durability is a benefit for both.

Congrats to the team

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by tensegrist »

chuckadams wrote: post #21
f311a wrote: post #11

Too bad they did not include better search UI into this release. When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape. Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478

Whereas I'm not a great fan of modals for anything where I'd like to refer back to what I'm working on. I guess I'd just prefer some tabs to open as a split by default and close with esc, maybe call them something like "ephemeral tabs"? Basically, steal some ideas from emacs.

in emacs with embark you can export the contents of an ephemeral buffer into a persistent one, which is the best of both worlds and more besides

for file search, edit in the persistent buffer can rename files

for grep, edits in the persistent buffer edit across files

and so on

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by kevinfiol »

Congrats to the Zed team! I've been using a combination of Zed + Gram [1] (which I predict may lag behind this 1.0 release in features/fixes). They are both nice, fast editors. However, I switched to Sublime Text 4 again recently and... I'm surprised to see how much clunkier Zed feels than Sublime. I can't put my finger on it, but Sublime, although lacking in features, feels considerably more polished and performant.

[1] https://gram.liten.app/

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by Meekro »

I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it with Zed, and turning all those warnings off is not trivial.

For each kind of warning, I wish there was a button that said "don't warn me again about issues like this one in this project." Then I could keep the interesting warnings (like undeclared variable) and ditch the ridiculous ones.

Re: Zed 1.0

#45

Post by throwa356262 »

Zed seems to have many fans on HN.

But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains.

Maybe it's better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by WD-42 »

Meekro wrote: post #44

I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it wit…

You should be able to just turn off the language server. Go to the lightning bolt icon in the bottom bar, "Stop all servers" or just the PHP one lighting up your source code.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by the__alchemist »

I am posting this because I want to like and use Zed because it's so fast and responsive (Especially on my tablet, which JB turns into a space heater), and has neat functionality like being able to switch to whatever set of hotkeys you use. And I greatly respect the small binary/download size and fast install. From experimenting in Python and rust:

  - Doesn't highlight typos in variable, functions, class/struct names etc. Doesn't highlight rust borrow-check, invalid method etc errors.
  - Doesn't seem to understand either language beyond superficial syntax
  - "Go to definition" (Ctrl + B) Doesn't do anything
  - Doesn't show which versions are valid in Cargo.toml and pyproject.toml
  - No ability to move functions/classes/structs etc to different modules
  - Doesn't seem to understand rust feature gates
  - Doesn't seem to understand what fields a struct has, or params a function has, let a lone what types are valid in them.
  - Rename seems naive
Overall: It is taking a superficial view of the code base, and treating it more as text than a cohesive structure.

edit: Thank you very much for those who have pointed out I needed to disable restricted mode. This has added some introspection and in-line error handling. Some of my concerns are partially-mitigated. It seems when introspection and in-line editing/complete/data appears is inconsistent (But working in many cases), and I do not yet know what rules define this. Refactoring tools like moving are still absent. I will continue to use Zed on my tablet with the LSPs enabled, and observe.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by cowboy_henk »

f311a wrote: post #11

Too bad they did not include better search UI into this release. When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape. Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478

Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.
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