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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 sisk »

gwking wrote: post #15
jchw wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could it really be that simple?! Holy shit. It really is that simple. Thank you.

Even after figuring this out for myself I still struggle to do it fluently.

There's a setting that will allow you to double-click to open a file from the multibuffer which I find more natural:

  { "double_click_in_multibuffer": "open" }

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by pzmarzly »

jwpapi wrote: post #18

I mean all good but I still wonder if building an editor is really sustainable you basically only fight for new coders everybody else will just stay with vs or IntelliJ because of muscle memory I know you can share keymaps but it never works 100% Like I must’ve been tremendously more disappointed with my current ide to even consider switching

Counterexample: I went Sublime Text 2 -> ST3 -> Atom -> VSCode -> Zed, and every time barely noticed a difference in editing experience. The keymaps were >95% compatible after each of these switches. But I guess that was the happy path given these editors share lineage.

OTOH I was never able to switch to Jetbrains IDEs for long, because everything was too different, even after installing compat keymaps.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by neoden »

Sadly, I came back to using VS Code recently. There's a lot to like in Zed but imo that decision to write their own rendering framework is unfortunate, because of ridiculous problems in Linux still not resolved like poor font rendering, especially on low-DPI screens, or visible lags of UI which is being developed to be blazingly fast. So far, VS Code is faster for me.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by xeonmc »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #16
ricokatayama wrote: post #14

Do you know what I like more than AI in my IDE (which I adore, by the way)? It's an IDE that respects the developer.

Yep, fwiw there's often live coding interviews done in the editor of your choice that require AI to be off. As in even if you love AI and use it a lot you should have the ability to turn it off.

Aw shucks, I guess that rules out Notepad on Win11 then.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by lvl155 »

I tried Zed many times. In fact I try to use it at least once a month because it is indeed fast. However, I just think it’s a half-baked product and I don’t want to invest too much time into it. Wish they didn’t get distracted by AI and focused on making a viable VSCode replacement as an IDE/Editor.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by xpe »

jchw wrote: post #5

I am really, really starting to like Zed. I noticed recently that it now respects my EditorConfig files, which was one of my biggest gripes before recently. In general almost everything that I didn't love about Zed has been fixed. I have only tried it a couple of times, but Zed's AI assistant view indeed works as promised, doing about as well as Cursor does. Now there's just one thing that is a bit annoying... It's k…

> I don't know if there's anything we can do to make sure Zed succeeds sustainably and doesn't eventually get enshittified, but I'm crossing my fingers that for once we can have nice things.

This is a good conversation to have. We can start by pointing this out and encouraging broader interest. Zed has been my daily driver for over a year.

I'll make a claim -- does anyone disagree (?) -- the incentives are not pointed in the right direction. Unless developers are paying directly for the functionality they want, that's misalignment. So enshittification seems probable, maybe inevitable, unless something structural changes.

OTOH, because they charge for their editor, JetBrains has incentives that are better in line with customers.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by cgag »

neoden wrote: post #24

Sadly, I came back to using VS Code recently. There's a lot to like in Zed but imo that decision to write their own rendering framework is unfortunate, because of ridiculous problems in Linux still not resolved like poor font rendering, especially on low-DPI screens, or visible lags of UI which is being developed to be blazingly fast. So far, VS Code is faster for me.

Doing their own rendering is one of the most attractive things about it imo. I am on macos though.
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