Last time I heard about Zed I was intrigued. Now i'm interested, going to give it a go.
Zed 1.0
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Re: Zed 1.0
#652Too 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
Personally I don't hate tab. Sometimes even it's more convenient to have a tab on the side with all the state, instead of reopening modal. What I hate though is really unintuitive and "non-standard"[1] shortcuts in search tab. For example "find in project": cmd+shift+f Whereas for "find and replace in project" I'd expect: cmd+shift+r , but it's: first toggle find, then toggle find and replace. Ok, absolutely fine, bu…
I was like: "it should be Ctrl+Shift+H, of course, right?"
So different tastes :-)
What you describe later is "Auto-populate the find dialog with current text under cursor". VSCode has a setting for that; I guess Zed will eventually end upnadeing one too.
Re: Zed 1.0
#653Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never thought of Zed as Sublime replacement, but now that you've mentioned – why not? I use Sublime only as blazingly fast temp note taking that doesn't lose them on exit, but I see Zed fits the job perfectly. One less close product hopefully!
Sadly this is how I use Sublime as well, though not anymore, on work systems the new Notepad app has tabs finally, and can do exactly that...
many became used to this behavior with notepad++ and though it's not cross-platform, if you never entirely left windows, you're possibly still using it. especially if it's to paste giant json blobs, as npp has a plugin system, with json formatting and the like ~
anyways, sometimes i think about npp when subline is mentioned
Re: Zed 1.0
#654I tried Zed for a few days and loved it, but had to switch back to Cursor because I've become dependent on Cursor Tab. The problem is that Cursor Tab seems kinda psychic, and I didn't realise how conditioned I'd become to just expressing a few keystrokes in the right place and have Tab pick up my intentions. If you're refactoring, you can move between files and it'll remember what you just did in a tab you just close…
When was the last time you tried? We recently released a new model and are doing a lot more iterative improvement https://zed.dev/blog/zeta2
Re: Zed 1.0
#655Zed 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?
Hey, support engineer at Zed here.
If you have a reproducible setup for a bug we don't know about, we'd love to get a proper report of it.
You can schedule 15mins with me here: https://calendar.app.google/fyLQkqvne7EdvR8XA
Re: Zed 1.0
#656Any benchmarks? Scrolling is using 16% of my GPU (vs 5% in Sublime). Also things like mouse-down to activate a tab (vs mouse-up in Zed) make Sublime feel faster.
I recently tested input latency on Mac Mini M2 Pro, keypress to visible pixel (p95 value). - Zed 36.8ms (26.3 avg) - Sublime 33.5ms (25.9 avg) - VSCode 31.7ms (20.6 avg) - Hackerman Text 15.3ms (12.5 avg) All editors tested as stripped down as possible, minimal UI etc., empty file, no syntax highlighting. Mostly surprised by VSCode tbh. Testing on sqlite3.c (with syntax highlighting): Zed 60.5ms, Sublime 37.1ms, VSCo…
That's a useful metric to track. Could you explain how you measured those numbers?
Re: Zed 1.0
#657Can you fix the CLI on Windows? You broke it a few versions ago. 'zed --version' and all the other flags don't work. Maybe broken command parser or something, im not sure. Zed with zero flags still launches it. I particularly want to be able to pass it filenames for quick opening and --new and --wait. Used to work. Thanks!
Zed support engineer here, that sounds like a bug!
I have `zed --version` working on my Windows machine:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> zed --version
Zed 1.0.0 5ec84a926ef83865afb92d2a3d1ca3b419572cf9 – \\?\C:\Users\mrg\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\Zed.exe
If you're up for it, we can pair next week to get a proper bug report filed
Re: Zed 1.0
#658Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used. I subscribe to the monthly plan just to give you guys the funding you need, even if my funding is a tiny drop in the bucket. I always wanted a feature rich alternative to Sublime Text that can run anywhere and do basically anything I need from it. I've use JetBrains IDEs for years (been subscribed annually since 2017), but since Zed I have…
Never thought of Zed as Sublime replacement, but now that you've mentioned – why not? I use Sublime only as blazingly fast temp note taking that doesn't lose them on exit, but I see Zed fits the job perfectly. One less close product hopefully!
Ever thought about Heynote? https://heynote.com/ I love it.
Re: Zed 1.0
#659Does it work on Ubuntu yet? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14237
Yes, I run it daily on Ubuntu.
Re: Zed 1.0
#660I tried Zed for a few days and loved it, but had to switch back to Cursor because I've become dependent on Cursor Tab. The problem is that Cursor Tab seems kinda psychic, and I didn't realise how conditioned I'd become to just expressing a few keystrokes in the right place and have Tab pick up my intentions. If you're refactoring, you can move between files and it'll remember what you just did in a tab you just close…
When was the last time you tried? We recently released a new model and are doing a lot more iterative improvement https://zed.dev/blog/zeta2
Thanks for the reply! I gave it a solid week at the start of this month, about 3 weeks ago.
The only other thing I didn't like (and this is subtle, but I had not realised that I took it for granted): In Cursor, you can close and reopen a tab, and the undo history is kept. Working on a large repo, this comes up surprisingly often.
Save -> Close -> Assume everything is fine -> Do something more -> Oh no! That was a mistake! -> Cmd+Shift+T -> Undo. Cursor will comply; Zed says there's nothing to undo. So you're back to reverting chunks of code in git.
I will try Zeta again shortly. The biggest thing I'm looking for is that I can move between files and the context of recent changes persists, and the assistant treats it has highly relevant. Comes up a lot when refactoring.