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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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To any of the project members here: viewing the zed.dev home page using Safari on an iPhone shows text being cut off. I can’t seem to scroll to the right either to view the remaining content.

I have the same issue in Yandex Browser (based on Chrome) on Android.

You've chosen to let the Russians spy on your web browser?

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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I only joined Zed, the company, a week ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but: I've never really used real-time sharing (tried VS Code's Live mode and other apps) for longer than just 1-2 attempts, but at Zed things are different somehow. Everybody is constantly available in a channel and people just hop in or out. In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others, using Zed's live mode. No video,…

> In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others This sounds remarkably inefficient?

That may depend on what you're trying to do. If you are figuring out something tricky, then lots of quiet head down time is what you need. Every interruption hurts when you are concentrating.

However, a lot of the time is just figuring out how to glue together multiple systems. Being able to pull in various people to interface little bits is priceless. There is no flow here, only collaboration.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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I hope this leads to Zed being ported to other platforms (Linux, please!)

Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!

Excellent. A big reason I use Sublime is because it's cross platform (Mac at work, Linux at home).

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Looks awesome. Doesn't support syntax highlighting for Solidity yet and from a quick search, I couldn't tell if there's any plugin/extension I could install (or how to do it). Any pointers?

Uses tree-sitter, which you'll need to learn about. https://github.com/JoranHonig/tree-sitter-solidity

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Speaking of Linux, are there any other editors we can use today? I tried to look for one recently but couldn't find anything. (edit: I mean collaborative editors)

You're joking, right?

Looking for collaborative editors in particular. Two people editing at once, on different computers. Each person has their own copy of the file, on disk.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!

Since you are here I'll hijack the thread :) What about remote support ala vscode-server over SSH.

Please not ala vscode-server over SSH.

Do it proper like emacs tramp so it will connect to any platforms/architectures.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Zed developers, please don't. I don't want my core editor potentially sending out my code to who knows where or wasting cycles analyzing it. If people want this just let it be a plugin.

> Zed supports GitHub Copilot out of the box, and you can use GPT-4 generate or refactor code by pressing ctrl-enter and typing a natural language prompt. https://zed.dev/ Seems like that ship has sailed. Maybe it's a plugin already or could be in the future, but that's not on GP's suggestion.

I’d say the ship is in port but ready to sail. Before this does anything you have to provide your own API key. So it’s off by default. It’s just the button that is there.
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