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You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by i-zu »

johnfn wrote: post #49

Zed seems really nice, and the usability has come a really long way in the last couple of months. That being said, I have one issue, and I hesitate to even bring it up because it seems so shallow: I hate all the themes! They all look so ugly and amateur. I know this is a really trivial thing, it's like complaining I don't like Python because it uses whitespace for indent or something, but I just can't get over it. VS…

I feel you. I still haven't found the light theme that would work for me. In VSCode I use Better Selenized. Even tried to import it to Zed but experience was a bit subpar.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by c-hendricks »

serbuvlad wrote: post #189

The one thing I love about VSCode is how trivially I can fire it up on a container or on a remote machine via SSH. If Zed had this I would switch tomorrow. So my question for Zed users is: does it? The UI is a tad idiosyncratic on Linux (can't speak for Macs) but DAMN is it fast, I love the generality of tasks.json (haven't played with debug.json yet), by far the best system I've ever used, and everything just works…

Zed has SSH editing. But when I tried it a couple of weeks ago, their in-ui git didn't detect a repo in a folder that very much used git, and ports you want mapped have to be specified ahead of time, there's no way to do it at runtime like in neovim/vscode

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by max-privatevoid »

3836293648 wrote: post #88

What is the point of this? Surely anyone who (correctly) has moral objections would require a fork getting rid of the code to support it entirely, not just a runtime toggle?

That's true for this and many other features of Zed. For example, telemetry can be disabled with a simple switch. However, I feel deeply uncomfortable knowing that my editor is ready to report every file I open, commit I make, code action I perform, etc. at a moment's notice, held back only by that one line in my config file.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by senko »

vlod wrote: post #124
dkersten wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone wants to use a terminal editor and of those people, not everyone wants to use vscode.

Learning a terminal editor will save your ass at 3am when production goes down. No joke.

Learning and wanting to use as a daily driver are very different things.

I use vim on my servers and for writing git commit messages. For everything else, I use another editor (used to be Sublime Text, then Vs code, now Zed).

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by eproxus »

eikenberry wrote: post #182
dkersten wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did you last try Zed? If it was recently then that hasn’t quite matched my experience, for me vim keybindings work quite well. But I did think the same when I first used Zed over a year ago.

I tried it a couple days ago. Lost me right off with the poor `:e` experience; popup box with no completion, fuzzy-matching, sub-directory support. Vim is a file oriented editor, not a project oriented one, so good file operations are table stakes.

I don’t quite get what Zed’s emulation of :e has to do with being a modal editor. It’s a completely different editor so of course the interface to interact with files is going to be different, but in my experience Zed’s implementation of modality when it comes to its Vim mode is extremely good. Even better than the already excellent NeoVintageous for Sublime Text.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

koito17 wrote: post #134

Started using Zed about a year ago and, besides Magit, it has managed to completely replace Emacs for me. I was missing a good debugger for a long time, but that also went GA a month ago or so. One thing that goes underappreciated is the input latency and how light on resources the editor is overall. Whenever I switch tabs to a web browser (or any web app), I can feel the lag in typing now, despite the fact I use an…

Not currently using Zed but low input latency is one of the things that’s kept me on Sublime Text over the years. Might give Zed a shot and see how it stacks up.

The other two editors I use a lot are Xcode and Android Studio, and while the first is usually fine, Android Studio (IntelliJ) feels servicable but a touch sluggish in comparison. Given the popularity of JetBrains IDEs I’m a bit surprised that there’s not more demand from customers to make it more responsive.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by Noumenon72 »

leafmeal wrote: post #98

The thing that's so sticky for me with JetBrains IDEs is their run configurations. Being able to configure all of the environment variables etc. for the actual code that I need to run, especially when connecting to a debugger or tests integrated with the IDE. I haven't seen anyone else complain about this so I figure I must be missing something. Does Zed let you set up run configurations like this? If not, how do use…

I love these too. I have a run config checked into my repo that runs three run configs, for `fastapi dev`, npm start, and launching a JavaScript debugger, with one click. I also like clicking on a test or script and just hitting "ctrl+shift+d" to launch that particular code with the debugger.

VS Code can launch a fleet of dev containers but it's just not as good of an experience to restart and debug.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by Aurornis »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #197
koito17 wrote: post #134

Started using Zed about a year ago and, besides Magit, it has managed to completely replace Emacs for me. I was missing a good debugger for a long time, but that also went GA a month ago or so. One thing that goes underappreciated is the input latency and how light on resources the editor is overall. Whenever I switch tabs to a web browser (or any web app), I can feel the lag in typing now, despite the fact I use an…

Not currently using Zed but low input latency is one of the things that’s kept me on Sublime Text over the years. Might give Zed a shot and see how it stacks up. The other two editors I use a lot are Xcode and Android Studio, and while the first is usually fine, Android Studio (IntelliJ) feels servicable but a touch sluggish in comparison. Given the popularity of JetBrains IDEs I’m a bit surprised that there’s not mo…

JetBrains IDEs with their zero-latency typing mode are actually some of the most responsive editors for typing performance: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

They can definitely feel a bit sluggish navigating around once you have a giant codebase and you’re using a lot of features, but code editing has been very responsive for me.

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