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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by tacitusarc »

poetril wrote: post #118

I quite like Zed, I've consistently driven it for months at a time. But there are two things that add enough friction that over that month or so I end up bailing back to one of my other editors (vscode/neovim). The search experience being a new tab with no sidebar option and the diff viewer being a multibuffer view with no option to see the entire contents of a file you are diffing. That being said, I love the softwa…

These are also two of my primary gripes.

There has been substantial improvement, but the search and symbol follow UX is really bad. Hoping the fix that.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by f311a »

malcolmgreaves wrote: post #151
f311a wrote: post #11

Too bad they did not include better search UI into this release. When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape. Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478

> Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape. How else are you going to have “a quick glance at code” *across* project files without using a new view for that? It sounds like you’re describing something impossible. Zed’s across files search solves this in a similar way as other tools. Except that in zed you can also edit the code where your search results show up. Zed…

Just look at the PR, it's shows how it will look like. It's modal instead of a persistent tab.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by jenadine »

sev_verso wrote: post #80

I've been using the editor since the early days and have always been a fan of its visual look and feel, so I was pretty happy to see its UI library open sourced. I wish GPUI could become the go-to Rust UI library and not just an editor backend. For that, a couple of changes would be highly desirable: being able to switch the GPU backend from Metal to wgpu (so it could be mixed with vello, for instance), and the abili…

What's so good about GPUI?

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by dmix »

throwa356262 wrote: post #45

Zed seems to have many fans on HN. But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains. Maybe it's better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?

On MacOS I never really felt there was a noticeable performance difference to using Zed vs VSCode. I still like the idea of it being Rust/GPU based but just like those GPU optimized terminals (Kitty, Alacritty, etc) the difference is usually pretty marginal for day to day stuff.

The only time VSCode gets slow is if you use a bunch of poorly written plugins, which hasn't been an issue for me in years. It's just like Chrome, chrome is extremely fast as a base but you can mess it up by not being careful with what you add to it.

I still plan to revisit Zed in another year or so once it progresses further, as I find it's still behind Cursor in many ways.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by askedrelic »

sixtyj wrote: post #111
Meekro wrote: post #44

I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it wit…

Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)

I use Sublime as a scratchpad and never save anything, so this is an important feature for me. It's worked flawlessly for years.

I've tried Zed several times like this and it continues to lose data.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by _verandaguy »

mtoner23 wrote: post #122
Meekro wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coming from Sublime, I'd never even heard of a Language Server when I first tried Zed. As I recall, disabling particular kinds of warnings required copy-pasting some pretty exotic incantations into my project config. All of it was poorly documented, and it felt like I was doing something nobody expected me to do. Instead, I should have been able to mouse over a particular warning and say "don't warn me again about th…

LSP is how all editors work today and its simplified everything so so much. you should figure them out

While this comment is overly general (some major editors ship without LSP support built in; many more do not have a sane configuration out-of-the-box), it is useful to learn about them and how your editor of choice integrates with them.

The landscape isn't generally intuitive, unfortunately, and while it's getting better, understanding the differences and interop places between LSP, Treesitter, DAP, your editor, and the underlying language-specific tooling can be a big, confusing time hog.

That said, and to be clear: LSP's been a huge boon for me. I used a minimal, kinda-broken configuration for a while with Python, then rebuilt the whole thing when I switched to Rust for work, and holy hell, this thing's awesome.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by teekert »

I like Zed, I had only a few issues switching from VSCode. And I love the responsiveness of the crew in the repo! Keep it up, you're my default!

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by chwzr »

I would really love to see an iOS remote control app for zed. I am using it on throw away microvms via ssh. Would love to have the zed server running there, control agents via phone and occasionally use my Mac to connect to the server and use the desktop app as normal for review and hand coding

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by jordyjor »

johnfn wrote: post #88

I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes. Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.

I use "Melange Light". Feels simple and clean, if you like light themes at all.
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