I'm rooting for Zed. Used it for a few months at the start of this year, but came back to VSCode. I think Zed can potentially be a replacement for Sublime Text or equivalent, but it's far from one for VSCode. There's too much missing currently and too many bugs (at least from when I last used back in March).
Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
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Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
#22Is anyone using zed with success? I tried to use but it seemed slow to search compared to sublime. Lots of features were nicer, but search is my most used feature. From all the other possibilities, this seem the one that I am more inclined to successfully transition to. I really liked sublime when I switched, but now it feels stuck in the past. I am waiting for the right time to try again. If you are using and liking…
Use it for 50% of my dev work now. It has improved significantly in the last six months. The vim support is quite decent already.
Search hasn't been an issue for me yet. It feels instant and I like that I can use my keyboard for browsing search results in one view, just like in Sublime. Might depend on the project size, although I use it on bigger projects, too.
The one thing I'm missing is Git support. After getting used to Gitlens, it's really hard to move back to the command line.
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#23I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).
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#24I’m using Zed on macOS and like it so far. Only thing I wish they add is remote development like VSCode has. Zed seems to be focusing on collaborative development and the integrated AI assistant, but feels like remote programming is something closer to a lot more people’s use cases. I’d be willing to pay for a seamless remote experience with Zed.
sshfs/rclone as solution?
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#26I no longer code, except for the occasional fun and the usual front-end for marketing and documentation pages. This is why I wanted an editor that I could load up my entire drive or each of the entities, and that wouldn’t hang up on me. I’m beginning to learn VIM and will likely retire with it but for now I was looking for something I'm familiar with.
Zed came really close to being an open-source editor I can use for now, and the Sublime Text key binding was an icing on the cake. Unfortunately, with its regular nudges to do this, do that, install this, install that -- I gave up on it and went back to Sublime Text. ST is just there, super-fast, loads anything I throw in, and just silent - no nothing.
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#27Zed certainly seems interesting! I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind. I don't think Zed has any way to extend its behavior beyond configuration options, and if it doesn't have a scripting language to go with it now, then it seems quite unlikely it will have a good one in the future either. Based on another comment here I did some more se…
> I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind.
I guess there are different hats emacs users wear, or things that are in Emacs' favour.
e.g. in terms of "Emacs is just a good tool", it's very good at being a keyboard-driven tool.
If these fancy features like multiplayer catch on, I'd expect someone would figure out a way to do something like that in Emacs.
It's probably due to Emacs being so customisable that allowed it to get Magit, which is an outstandingly good user interface for Git.
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#28Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux: [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path Caused by: Platform ::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0 [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00…
I get those too, but the Zed window is still open and I'm able to edit a file just fine. I'm on Fedora 38 FWIW.
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#29It's written in some GUI framework where I'm unable to resize, maximize or minimize the window.
> - [ ] Add Client Side Decorations for resizing / moving
…is currently on top of their Linux roadmap.
Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
#30Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux: [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path Caused by: Platform ::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0 [2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00…
I get those too, but the Zed window is still open and I'm able to edit a file just fine. I'm on Fedora 38 FWIW.
Hmm, the process segfaults right after, so I assumed this was the cause.
Looking at the output again, I think there's another unrelated issue that happens at the same time, where Vulkan is unable to start due to ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER.
EDIT: Yes, I was missing a driver. I had a driver installed (amdvlk), but that apparently didn't work, and vulkan-radeon does.