The project wide search looks quite unusable compared to Visual Studio Code. You only see the matches one file at a time.
Zed is now available on Windows
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Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#282Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.
I also backed out from using Zed a couple months ago, but since last week, Linux font rendering looks good to me both on full HD and HiDPI displays.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#283Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minimise, close options etc.) do not seem to work. I'm guessing with the DirectX rendering backend, the 'app' is rendered more akin to a video game than a native win32 process. Also after in…
> I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat. For what it's worth, the zed executable on Linux weighs 3.2 MB. EDIT: Sorry, the nix store is too good at hiding things from me. It's actually around 337 MB plus webrtc-sys.
What does a desktop text editor have to do with WebRTC?
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strangely it's the actual binary's .text section that's about 400MB. Time to dive in!
Welcome to static linking of large applications. The world moved into dynamic linking in the 1980's for a reason. It is cool to advocate for a return to static linking when it is basic CLI tools.
I think there should be a best-of-both-worlds type of linking - during compilation, the linker places a statically compiled library at a certain address, but doesn't include it in the binary. Then, during startup, the OS maps the same library to the given address (sharing the data between processes). This would improve memory use and startup time both and performance, avoiding dynamic linking.
Of course you need to match the exact versions between the compiled executable and the dependency, but this should be a best practice anyways.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#285Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significan…
One of the reasons why I'm not fully switching yet is a Zed's inability to update the currently open file with changes made elsewhere [1]. All the other editors I use are aware of outside changes, but not Zed. And I'm just not willing to close and reopen the file to get fresh contents. Eventually, I'll forget to do it and lose some work. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15791
How do other editors handle this in your experience? I’m pretty sure VSCode behaves exactly the same, with the addition of a manual “merge” editor when you try to save, but never shows changes live for a modified file.
Changes to open files without any modifications in the buffer are always shown. Are you using any kind of containers or virtual fs that might be interfering?
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#286I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.
You can easily disable automatic downloading of extensions.
https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#auto-install-extensions
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if it’s delta, it cannot patch itself when running on Windows. So it runs the updater, creates a new exec and switches to it after relaunch. Same as Chrome or Firefox.
OS deficiency. And maybe programs shouldn't be allowed to update themselves.
Is it? On Linux, you can overwrite the file, but the underlying inode will still be open, and the 'invisble' old version will linger around - you don't have any easy way short of restarting everything to make sure the new versions are being used.
And with Chromium this directly leads to crashes - when you update the browser as its open, the new tabs will open with the new version of the binary, with the old ones still using the old binary - which usually leads to crash.
I prefer 'you cannot do X' instead of 'we allow you to do it, but it might misbehave in unpredictable ways'.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#288Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significan…
What does having a DevContainer get you? I’m all for documenting every bit of my setup, but beyond that…
I am a big fan of using it when working with somewhat complicated toolchains, especially if they need to be compiled. Cleaning up the file system is as simple as deleting the container and starting a new one. OCaml on windows comes to mind.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
This is one of those things that make me question whether I experience the world fundamentally differently than many of you. I have never, ever felt “latency” in editor UI. Any editor UI. It’s editing text for Pete’s sake. I can only type so fast, or read so fast.
Have you ever used a display running over 60hz refresh rate?
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#290Technically, Zed's Super Compete will almost never catch up with Cursor, or even as good as the free Windsurf. If you look a little closer, you will see that the cursor and cursor completion requests are not initiated by the editor itself, which only interacts with the lsp. Yes. They all come with an LSP, taking free windsurf as an example, when windsurf starts, it will start a process in /Applications/Windsurf.app/C…
Paragraphs are overrated.