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Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
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Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#32Zed is the only GUI editor I've used as my daily driver after 15+ years of development (hardcore vim fan). Vim Mode is wonderful, the terminal pane works well, UI is butter-smooth, LSP integration beats VS Code's IMHO, and the LLM-powered autocomplete works well (haven't tried chat/generation). Nice themes, too.
The lack of debugger support will put some off, but I bet they'll get to it someday. It's already progressed so much in the four or five months I've used it (esp. Vim Mode).
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#33I use cursor and vim now. I have been on vim for 15+ years. Are there LLM extensions that make vim work like all these new AI editors? I would prefer to stay in 100% vim world, but the productivity benefits from LLMs with composer mode and context is so powerful.
What is cursor in this context? A vim plugin?
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#34I use cursor and vim now. I have been on vim for 15+ years. Are there LLM extensions that make vim work like all these new AI editors? I would prefer to stay in 100% vim world, but the productivity benefits from LLMs with composer mode and context is so powerful.
What is cursor in this context? A vim plugin?
If they’re talking about the Cursor I’m familiar with, it is “The AI Editor”. Basically it’s a fork of vscode with LLMs built in
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#35Biggest dealbreaker for me using Zed is that it’s not a TUI but a full on GUI app. I might as well just use VSCode with vim bindings at that point.
I still prefer neovim+lazy, but Zed is really pretty good and way way way faster than VSCode. Really, my only stumbling block with Zed is simply that while its vim mode is pretty decent, it's not the same as my neovim+lazy setup. However as pointed out in TFA, it looks like the Zed folks are doubling down on the vim bindings:
It's be kinda cool if Zed had a TUI mode (in that the rendering engine would generate VT escape sequences).
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#36Zed is great! I used it exclusively for Advent of Code in Go this year and I was marvelous!
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#37Zed is the jam
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#38Biggest dealbreaker for me using Zed is that it’s not a TUI but a full on GUI app. I might as well just use VSCode with vim bindings at that point.
For me the problem is that it takes several seconds for Zed to open a file from across the network. Mostly just small code files. They are instant when I open them with vim in the terminal. I open so many files that the delay becomes a slog.
I've been editing directly in the terminal for many years and was looking forward to moving back to a real desktop IDE, but I bounced right off of this. Does it not happen for you or it's just not that bad? Does anyone know of a solution?
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#39I wanted to like Zed but tying buffers to tabs is a deal breaker for me. They have really good vim motion support but don't let you view any buffer in any pane.
Re: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
#40I wanted to like Zed but tying buffers to tabs is a deal breaker for me. They have really good vim motion support but don't let you view any buffer in any pane.
I'm curious what's your usecase?