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Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by vouaobrasil »

monax wrote: post #10
vouaobrasil wrote: post #8

I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).

You can remove all the AI stuff from the settings "collaboration_panel": { "button": false }, "assistant": { "version": "1", "button": false }, "chat_panel": { "button": false }, "notification_panel": { "button": false },

Oh, thanks, I'll look into that. I didn't know that was possible (I searched around a little but couldn't find it.) Does this disable connecting to an AI server though or just hide the buttons?

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by h3ctic »

_flux wrote: post #6

Zed certainly seems interesting! I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind. I don't think Zed has any way to extend its behavior beyond configuration options, and if it doesn't have a scripting language to go with it now, then it seems quite unlikely it will have a good one in the future either. Based on another comment here I did some more se…

I wondered about the same thing. Even though some parts of Emacs feel old it's still the best editor IMHO

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by timvdalen »

Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux:

    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path
    
    Caused by:
        Platform::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet
    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
    [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/zed.rs:661: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by johtso »

One thing that I didn't enjoy when taking Zed for a spin was the default of prettifying my code on-save. I feel like that's something that shouldn't be enabled by default. People are most likely going to try and jump in editing an existing project, and don't want the entire file getting reformatted.

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by hsn915 »

monax wrote: post #10
vouaobrasil wrote: post #8

I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).

You can remove all the AI stuff from the settings "collaboration_panel": { "button": false }, "assistant": { "version": "1", "button": false }, "chat_panel": { "button": false }, "notification_panel": { "button": false },

Cool. The only thing I was aware of is this one:

    "features": {
        "copilot": false
    }

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by trustno2 »

rafamvc wrote: post #7

Is anyone using zed with success? I tried to use but it seemed slow to search compared to sublime. Lots of features were nicer, but search is my most used feature. From all the other possibilities, this seem the one that I am more inclined to successfully transition to. I really liked sublime when I switched, but now it feels stuck in the past. I am waiting for the right time to try again. If you are using and liking…

I have used it only once, when I needed to inspect and lightly edit a giant json (50 GBs or so) and other editors got stuck on it.

It lacks so many features that others have that it makes no sense for me to use it as a daily editor.

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by yklcs »

I’m using Zed on macOS and like it so far. Only thing I wish they add is remote development like VSCode has. Zed seems to be focusing on collaborative development and the integrated AI assistant, but feels like remote programming is something closer to a lot more people’s use cases. I’d be willing to pay for a seamless remote experience with Zed.
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