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Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

I’ve been trying to love Zed for months now and still run into constant snags. It’s frustrating to use with TypeScript. Support is very intermittent as basic features randomly break and come back during the same session. Want to jump to a declaration? Maybe it’ll work. Want information about this type? If you’re lucky. How about autocomplete for existing types, variables, and functions? This probably breaks most often.

I update the editor regularly, have tried heaps of suggested fixes and reset settings each time. It’s a mess.

It’s a beautiful, fast, powerful editor and I want to use it, but I’m pretty frustrated. I keep hoping an update will address the autocomplete at least, but as of last week it will still stop functioning while I’m working.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Post by syndicatedjelly »

I’ve been spending the weekend getting setup in NeoVim and have enjoyed the process so far. It’s definitely not for people who want a plug-and-play IDE, but if you want to see all the programming details that are involved in a text editor (and learn some Lua along the way), then I highly recommend it.

Fair warning, it is HIGHLY recommended you come in with a working knowledge of Vim first.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Post by brittlewis12 »

xmstr wrote: post #15

"Zed collects anonymous telemetry data to help us understand how people are using the app." No thanks!

simple as two config options in `.zed/settings.json` (or `~/.config/zed/settings.json`):

``` { "telemetry": { "diagnostics": false, "metrics": false } } ```

for anyone who wants a fast, modern, resource-minimal, gpu-native text editor that is open source.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Post by IanCal »

sealeck wrote: post #12
levzettelin wrote: post #5

God, how often are people gonna post this editor here. I guess you can sell everything as long as it says "AI".

It's a pretty decent editor to be fair. The AI features are probably there to raise money from investors.

AI integration is really handy for coding. I wouldn't consider an editor that didn't have decent support for models and getting diffs back.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Post by linsomniac »

sealeck wrote: post #12
levzettelin wrote: post #5

God, how often are people gonna post this editor here. I guess you can sell everything as long as it says "AI".

It's a pretty decent editor to be fair. The AI features are probably there to raise money from investors.

Mmm, AI integration for coding is table stakes for any development tool right now IMHO. Even for things as simple as "I have an idea about how I'd check to see if the time is between midnight and 4:30am, but I don't have the python datetime module locked into memory, how would you do it" is extremely useful.
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