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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by onehair » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 8:48 PM UTC

diegs wrote: post #200

unshavedyak wrote: post #111

I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allo…

I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts. Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model. I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring. I have been followi…

The truly pluggable editor is emacs. I too spent months trying out neovim, then emacs, then finding helix. Spent a year on helix, then zed because I would rather have something more complete, and brought with me all i could of helix modal editing.

But emacs. Emacs is the one that can truly become anything you like. And with lsp and treesitter being finally in it. I've finally came to my senses and started building my helix in it.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by kridsdale3 » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

malshe wrote: post #257

This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code terminals and faced no issues. So what is the advantage of using it natively like this?

If you're going to live in the terminal, please do yourself a favor and replace Terminal.app with iTerm2, and replace bash with zsh.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by norman784 » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 8:55 PM UTC

ZpJuUuNaQ5 wrote: post #60

I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and…

OTOH I'd ten to prefer as less plugins as possible in VSCode, just because they are inherently dangerous, I'd like Zed plugins that are WASM, so they don't have access to the world.

But I agree that VSCode Typescript support is better than Zed, it works with weird projects setup, while Zed has more troubles. I at work VSCode and Zed/Helix for my projects, generally I use Zed when want to do some AI stuff, otherwise I just use Helix.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by hn_saver » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…

"even pulling up a file via search is more accurate in Cursor"

Huh? it takes it sometimes like 40s to find some file with the fuzzy search for me. In that time im going to the terminal running a "find" command with lots of * before I get some result in cursor

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by zeld4 » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

the integration is nice, but has some rough edges, I ran into situations that things becomes hard to stop

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by dimgl » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:03 PM UTC

I tried it and I think it's still missing a few important features.

- I don't want to constantly auto-accept. The point of auto-accept is that it auto-accepts. Seems like a bug.

- It'd be great if I could go back to a specific message and delete the ones I don't want, similar to the CLI version.

- Where is Plan Mode? Maybe I just couldn't figure out how to get to it.

- I can't easily see Background Tasks.

- How do I change models?

- How do I create new sessions (via /new for instance)? Why is `/clear` not supported?

- I don't want to see the entirety of the edits in the terminal. Can they be collapsed by default? Or maybe show a preview?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by bobbylarrybobby » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:05 PM UTC

unshavedyak wrote: post #111

I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allo…

Neovim can run in server mode, where other editors send it user input and then Neovim sends back the buffer. This is how I use vim in VSCode — not the Vim extension but the Neovim extension, which uses the real Neovim, which of course reads my Neovim config and plugins and makes them available to VSCode. So it seems like helix “just” needs a server mode, and then you can integrate it into any editor.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by eli » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:10 PM UTC

hajile wrote: post #193

ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…

I was somewhat surprised to find that Zed still doesn't have a way to add your own local autocomplete AI using something like Ollama. Something like Qwen 2.5 coder at a tiny 1.5b parameters will work just fine for the stuff that I want. It runs fast and works when I'm between internet connections too. I'd also like to see a company like Zed allow me to buy a license of their autocomplete AI model to run locally rathe…

You don't have to buy a license; the autocomplete model is open source https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta

It is indeed a fine tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-7B

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by mikaylamaki » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:10 PM UTC

skeptrune wrote: post #101

It's interesting that VSCode has its own Claude code extension which works well and does most of this. Zed has a lot of these micro-battles ahead where it has to spend money building solutions that VSCode's community shipped without their core team putting in any effort at all.

Actually, Anthropic built that integration themselves.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by yonisto » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

audunw wrote: post #250

yonisto wrote: post #237

I know it is not popular around here, but until Zed gets a windows version: Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead

There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.

Thanks. I might once I'll be in a mood to get frustrated by rough corners :-)