zed's great but they need to prioritise remote ssh like vscode. literally the main way most people do dev
Huh? I haven't seen remote SSH used in the past few companies I've worked at. Usually it's a local docker setup.
Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
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#152This is awesome news. Thank you very much!
I looked at Zed some time ago and even though I liked it, it being closed source and not very popular didn’t make me “trust” that it was gonna last.
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#153Does Zed have vim keybindings?
It does https://docs.zed.dev/general/vim. The support seems limited however, for example 'L' or 'H' movement does not seem to be supported.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
“Please don’t do it like a 4x4 truck, do it proper, like a bicycle” — there is some overlap between those things, but for people who are actually making full use of the former, the latter is not a useful suggestion
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#155A really really solid editor with some very good choices made, with exactly one exception: The LLM integrations. It's annoying to disable (3+ settings in different ways?) and by default on.
+1, I don’t think such stuff should be ever enabled by default.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#156I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…
> VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed.
I guess you haven't used Sublime Text before?
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#157There are some free code editor but no good free ide. Jetbrain are the main player and their products are paid. I am finding a jetbrain alternative that is free
emacs. Totally free and open source since 1976. oh, sorry, you asked for an IDE and not an operating system... /s seriously, budget a day or two for the ergonomics and a week for wrangling plugins, but some of the most productive developers in the world use emacs and they never need to worry about vendor issues, porting issues, not having a GUI, support for some weird file type, ability to create some funky type of m…
If you have to install plugins then it's not an IDE, it's just a text editor.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
nano, pico, vim, VS Code, Brackets, Notepadqq, Gedit, Kate, Leafpad, Geany
I was particularly looking for collaborative editing; two people editing the same file at once and each has a local copy of the file so they can run the code. Perhaps one could use a normal editor for this if there were some underlying command-line tool and/or plugin to do the actual file synchronization. Do you know of any?
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
It should be. There's AccessKit integration in egui (the most prominent Rust immediate mode GUI implementation) now, thanks to Matt Campbell's work. I would welcome GPUI and Zed adopting that, and I'm sure Matt can offer help in getting it integrated.
Zed developer here, I've actually looked at how to implement AccessKit in Zed, though I couldn't find a quick way of jumping into it beyond 'read the egui PR' at the time. If anyone wants to take a stab at it I'd love to help out and make it happen :)
Hi, lead AccessKit developer here. Sorry I haven't written much documentation yet. For now, the best way to learn how to use it is indeed to study the egui PR.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#160I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…
> VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed. I guess you haven't used Sublime Text before?
I had to stop using sublime because it kept updating its search index at inconvenient times and slowing to a crawl.
That and self updating in ways that broke my most important plugin.