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The Zed Debugger Is Here

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Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#31
post #22

Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/

They don’t support windows, they don’t support regular screens on Linux… are they a Mac shop basically?

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Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#32
I'm very happy to see work on the debugger. This is the main feature preventing me from switching full time to zed.

Unfortunately, "here" is not accurate. Not having a watch window, a stack trace view, and no mention of data breakpoints in the announcement still keeps the "beta" tag. I know those features will arrive eventually, but what is described is definitely not sufficient for 97% of my debugging sessions.

I would also have liked to see more in the announcement of multiple simultaneous debug sessions, and on how multithreaded debugging is planned. There are really cool things that can be done with multithreaded debugging further down the line that I'd be interesting in hearing about (like how RemedyBG has a DAW-like UI for freezing certain threads, or hitting one button to "solo" a thread and freeze all others).

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#33

Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/

Using it daily on my 1920x1200 laptop screen in Linux and works just fine.

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#34
post #22

Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/

They don’t support windows, they don’t support regular screens on Linux… are they a Mac shop basically?

Using it with regular screen in Linux, works just fine.

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#35

It's a niche feature, but what's keeping me from switching yet is that they zed doesn't support ctrl+scroll to zoom/change font size yet. Because I am accustomed to a non-US keyboard layout that doesn't make the regular key bindings for changing zoom easy, I got too used to doing it this way. It's honestly looking to be a great modern IDE with almost everything I'm wishing for.

It is funny that accidental scroll while holding Ctrl changing font size is one of my most hated features in IDEs, like who the hell ever needs to change their optimal font size to any other value. It's fascinating to me that this is a dealbreakingly important feature for someone else.

I often use it when sharing my screen. I like the feature quite a lot.

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#36

It's a niche feature, but what's keeping me from switching yet is that they zed doesn't support ctrl+scroll to zoom/change font size yet. Because I am accustomed to a non-US keyboard layout that doesn't make the regular key bindings for changing zoom easy, I got too used to doing it this way. It's honestly looking to be a great modern IDE with almost everything I'm wishing for.

May I ask which layout is that? On most that I have encountered (using hr daily), + and - don't require modifiers.

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#37
post #22

Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/

They don’t support windows, they don’t support regular screens on Linux… are they a Mac shop basically?

Yes. Originally they were Mac-only, then they went open-source and the community added support for Linux and Windows, but AFAICT they've never invested in anything but Mac

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#38
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an ugly workaround, but if you install BetterDisplay (it's a free tool) and set your LoDPI screen to HiDPI, text rendering looks good.

Oh I'll have to try that. Zed looks woeful on my 1440p monitor when I was trying it at work, which is a shame because I quite like it otherwise.

In what way? I e been using it on my 1440p for over a year and it looks fine. Am I missing something?

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#39
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I'll have to try that. Zed looks woeful on my 1440p monitor when I was trying it at work, which is a shame because I quite like it otherwise.

In what way? I e been using it on my 1440p for over a year and it looks fine. Am I missing something?

On my system (Linux, 4k display without scaling) the fonts look awful, but bumping up the font weight more or less fixes it.

Re: The Zed Debugger Is Here

#40
I was interested in Zed, but lost all interest when they started integrating "AI". I'm tired of "AI" everywhere.

I'll just stick with Neovim until something better comes around. Which probably won't happen until after the "AI" bubble bursts.

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