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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by giancarlostoro »

vunderba wrote: post #104
giancarlostoro wrote: post #58

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I love Sublime, but I don't want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is now, Zed is everything I wanted Sublime to be. Honestly, I wanted VS Code but fully native, and I feel like that's what I'm getting from Zed. I feel like some people will be put off by all the "AI" mentioned by Zed, but you're sleeping on a top tier editor where you can just ignore the AI stuff if you don't want it. It's very high qua…

I finally moved off Sublime a few months ago because I wanted something open source and stumbled on KDE/kate. It's been a perfect substitute. https://github.com/kde/kate

Actually, I do like Kate, but Zed seems to give me the best of everything I want. It's like they know exactly what I want out of an editor, they provide way more than I need, but that is okay too.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by Lapel2742 »

alternatex wrote: post #136
Enpece wrote: post #29

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I do agree that Zed's default themes aren't great. They look too 'plain' for my taste. Bit more contrast can't hurt either. BUT: It's very easy to just choose a different theme and there are plenty to choose from by now. It's even possible to make your own theme and they even have a first-party theme editor ( https://zed.dev/theme-builder ) which works great. They should maybe include some descriptions for each color…

Thank you for the tips. I didn't know it was possible to install other themes as extensions.

There is also https://zed-themes.com/ with theme previews.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by sixtyj »

nh2 wrote: post #200
sixtyj wrote: post #111

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Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)

> Software update deletes this memory. Are you sure? I believe Sublime preserves all your unsaved tabs even on update.

Last time I have updated (half a year ago) it deleted tabs. And since that time I haven’t been brave enough to update it again as I have too many tabs unsaved :)

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by megalomanu »

Congrats to the team! Fantastic editor, it really brought me joy after years of VSCode/Cursor. I love how it's crafted, you can feel the soul behind each decision.

What I love:

- the speed, of course

- the high consistency between features, tabs, and panes, while Cursor looks like a crumbly assemblage of plugins. At first I was worried about the lack of plugins, but Zed made me realize you don't need many

- the visual elegance: the padding, the proportions... It reminds me of the best of JetBrains (though I haven't used their products in years). It feels closer to the IDEs I used in the past (for Java or C#), in the sense that it seems to encompass everything you need, without the heaviness.

- the numerous keyboard shortcuts, often displayed visibly, which makes them easier to remember

- the transparency of their roadmap and their velocity: now that we finally have the vertical git diff as promised, my doubts are gone!

Truly one of my favorite pieces of dev software in 15 years.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by johnfn »

xpe wrote: post #165
johnfn wrote: post #88

I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes. Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.

What's your favorite theme, maybe we can point you to something close? If you have any special needs or usability issues (colorblindness is common), that's probably relevant too. I use the default theme + the Catppuccin Icon Theme : https://github.com/catppuccin/zed-icons

I really like the default Cursor theme - One Dark is also OK.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by nielsbot »

Does a native UI experience have no value these days? I mean--amazing achievement building an alternate GPU-accelerated UI framework from scratch, and I do love the responsiveness, but this leaves you with a non-native app that doesn't follow OS conventions and will not get appearance and behavior updates going forward without a lot of additional effort.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by 8note »

ziml77 wrote: post #145
gozzoo wrote: post #113

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I'm using the latest free/unregistered version (4200) and I haven't experienced any limitiation so far

There isn't any other than the occasional message when you save that tells you to buy the product. It's about as close to freeware as a paid product can get. I do suggest people pay though, it's cheap for a one-time purchase. The only reason I've ever seen the message at all is because I spent months being too lazy to dig up the license key to send to my work email. (That should also say something about how little I…

on paid 3, i get a popup every time i try to do anything telling me i must upgrade and pay again, so i've steadily just stopped using sublime. Didn't install it on the new computer

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by sixtyj »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #170
sixtyj wrote: post #111

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Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)

> Software update deletes this memory. While there was a bug where the session was lost when updating, this was fixed years ago.

Great, good to know. Thanks. I wasn’t brave enough to test, so I hope you are a human not a dog that tries to prank me :))

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by vunderba »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #201
vunderba wrote: post #104

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I finally moved off Sublime a few months ago because I wanted something open source and stumbled on KDE/kate. It's been a perfect substitute. https://github.com/kde/kate

Actually, I do like Kate, but Zed seems to give me the best of everything I want. It's like they know exactly what I want out of an editor, they provide way more than I need, but that is okay too.

I think I need to give Zed another look. A while back, it seemed like they’d shifted gears toward prioritizing AI, and I lost interest because I was looking for a more pure IDE with solid LSP support, good debugging tools, and so on.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by 8note »

nh2 wrote: post #200
sixtyj wrote: post #111

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Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)

> Software update deletes this memory. Are you sure? I believe Sublime preserves all your unsaved tabs even on update.

i lost all the open tabs last time i upgraded sublime.

burned once, twice shy; i wouldnt update without spending an hour making up names for random junk files

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