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Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by aidenn0 »

Arch-TK wrote: post #119

I really don't get why this is the modern editor style of choice. 20% (35 chars) of screen space permanently wasted on a always on file browser (meanwhile the animation showcases fuzzy finding) 4% (7 chars) of screen space permanently wasted by line numbers (why are the numbers cut off on the right?) 2.7% (5 chars) of screen space taken up by a gutter So 27% of screen space effectively dead 99% of the time. Why do pe…

I haven't tried Zed and am unlikely to, but I get 238 characters of fantasque sans mono 11pt on my 1200p screen, so I could give up those spaces and still have two vertical panes (assuming Zed supports vertical panes and the file-browser isn't duplicated).

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by o11c »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #120
yoyohello13 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I should have been more specific and said FOSS. VSCode is still encumbered by the weight of a mega corp. It's like saying Chrome is open source. Sure it is, but it still exists to serve the corporation that owns it.

It's MIT licensed. So it's more FOSS than FOSS

It isn't 1860 anymore, "the freedom to take freedom away" no longer counts.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by whalesalad »

correct-horse wrote: post #167
whalesalad wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime Text 3 is still one of my favorite editors. I use VSCode lately because of its excellent "Remote SSH" integration - but when it comes to latency sublime has it beat. Zed does not feel fast on my machine, which is a 13900K/128gb ram. It is running in xwayland though, so that could be part of the problem. It feels identical to vscode.

| It is running in xwayland though It definitely isn't on my system, and I did not touch the configs at all; are you sure about that?

Fairly positive due to blurry cursors, but I have no way to verify.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by sa-code »

llagerlof wrote: post #72

Just a suggestion. One of the best features of pure text editors (and incredible, not all of them implement it) is autosave keeping the "unsaved" state of the file. For example, if you make some changes in a file (new or not), don't save the changes, close and open the editor, the state of the opened files are kept like I never had closed the editor. The unsaved files are still unsaved. New edited files are still the…

Sublime works this way and I do appreciate it

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by fragmede »

correct-horse wrote: post #153
TiredOfLife wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's MIT licensed. So it's more FOSS than FOSS

It's free software in letter, but not in spirit. True free software doesn't lock out non-official builds for zero technical reasons.

what about vscodium? for that reason, what was iceweasel?

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by silisili »

handsaway wrote: post #26

I tried zed for a few weeks because I'm generally sympathetic to the "use a native app" idea vs Electron. I generally liked it and its UX but: 1. VSCode is pretty damn fast to be honest. Very rarely is my slowdown in my work VSCode loading. Maybe I don't open very large files? Probably 5k lines of typescript at most. 2. Integration with the Typescript language server was just not as good as VSCode. I can't pin down e…

A few weeks ago I had this giant json text blob to debug. I tried Gedit first, and it just fell over completely. Tried vim next, and it was for some reason extremely slow too, which surprised me.

VSCode loaded it nearly immediately and didn't hang when moving around the file. I have my complaints about VSCode, but speed definitely isn't one of them.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by dario_od »

Sadly I can't run it in WSL.

thread 'main' panicked at crates/gpui/src/platform/linux/wayland/client.rs:143:51:

called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: UnsupportedVersion

note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by correct-horse »

mikaylamaki wrote: post #132
jak2k wrote: post #5

Now they just need a flatpak…

We have a flatpak build! It's not on flathub yet though :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...

I really don't have much to say, just wanted to thank you for officially releasing a Linux build, and supporting us at all. We, the silent majority, very much appreciate your work. Every release of every application brings out the moaners, this is to be expected. Thanks.

Re: Zed on Linux Is Here

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Post by Arch-TK »

Quot wrote: post #154
Arch-TK wrote: post #119

I really don't get why this is the modern editor style of choice. 20% (35 chars) of screen space permanently wasted on a always on file browser (meanwhile the animation showcases fuzzy finding) 4% (7 chars) of screen space permanently wasted by line numbers (why are the numbers cut off on the right?) 2.7% (5 chars) of screen space taken up by a gutter So 27% of screen space effectively dead 99% of the time. Why do pe…

> 20% (35 chars) of screen space permanently wasted on a always on file browser That is toggleable. Cmd+B on Mac. I usually keep it closed, but it's just a shortcut away when I need it. > 4% (7 chars) of screen space permanently wasted by line numbers You can disable that in the settings with: "gutter": { "line_numbers": false } > 2.7% (5 chars) of screen space taken up by a gutter You can also disable the other item…

I would damn hope you can configure/disable this. But why is it the default?

And if the answer is "discoverability" then where is the default-on fuzzy find, default-on command palette, default-on context menu, etc?

My point was not to claim Zed was bad because I had the ignorant misapprehension that it was incapable of being cleaner, my point was to ask why people desire such a cluttered workspace by default? Most people I see using these editors _don't_ disable all this clutter.

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