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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 zzo38computer »

adastra22 wrote: post #232
zzo38computer wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The tab completion is very annoying when you’re trying to type. I think it is annoying if it completes it by itself, but tab completion can be helpful if you have to push the tab key (or whatever other key is mapped to autocompletion) to make the completion to work (although I don't need LLM to do tab completion).

Do you not use the tab key to indent code?

I don't indent with tabs, but I also don't usually use autocompletion in the text editor. I usually use tab completion in the command shell.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by insane_dreamer »

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…

Same here. Zeds task configurations are not nearly as versatile, easy to set up and run as pycharms especially when it comes to virtual envs. The debugger is superior in Pycharm too. But in terms of overall use Zed is good.

My other complaint is that pyright (used by Zed) isn’t nearly as good as pycharms type inspection.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by eviks »

max-privatevoid wrote: post #193
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.

You can add firewall block as another line if defense

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by v3ss0n »

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…

Low latency isn't working well on Linux for zer

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by v3ss0n »

Alupis wrote: post #224
jrvieira wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how does it compare to neovim in terms of input lag?

I have not tried neovim, admittedly. Compared to Eclipse, IntelliJ, and now VScode, it's a completely different animal in terms of fluidity and smoothness. Usually when I've attempted to explain it to others, people counter with things like "but my IDE already feels smooth", etc. I thought so too, until I tried Zed. My only "complaint" was/is(?) the plugin ecosystem. It's a fairly new editor, so things might change i…

Which platform? Input and UIlag is worse than vscode In Linux. Vscode is quite smooth for me

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by v3ss0n »

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.

Same experience here on Linux, where bast majority of potential users seems to be in Linux who loves vim mode, Zed's focus on Linux is pretty bad. I would say alpha quality at this point.

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by neoden »

toastercat wrote: post #40
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.

Wondering if you've tried rxi/lite or the community fork, Lite-XL [1] and how you've found the font rendering to be there? FWIW, I've yet to find a better text editor than Sublime Text. [1] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

Yes, I've tried them (Pragtical actually, which is another fork) and font rendering there is fine

Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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Post by neoden »

paraboul wrote: post #44
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.

Remember that Zed hasn't reached 1.0. On other platform, it is much faster and consume much less battery. Just like ghostty, to me the most attracting feature is knowing my editor/term is not backed by a browser engine.

> the most attracting feature is knowing my editor/term is not backed by a browser engine

How and why is this important? At any time I have two browsers with dozens of tabs and on top of it a slack client active, how another instance of a browser engine could hurt in this mad world?

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