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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by sapiogram »

sroussey wrote: post #192
sapiogram wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is incorrect, I have tried the editor on both MacOS and Linux, and texts looks like crap on both if you're using your screen at its native resolution. The difference is easily visible in screenshots. Example Zed screenshot, using "Ayu Light": https://i.ibb.co/Nr8SjvR/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-11-10... Same code in VS Code: https://i.ibb.co/YZfPXvZ/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-13-41...

Looks like anti-aliasing on a hi-dpi monitor which you shouldn't do.

It's not, the font renderer just sucks outside of high-DPI displays.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by senko »

dtkav wrote: post #309
ntonozzi wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The old panel still exists, they call it a text thread.

Yeah, but text threads cannot be used as context in the inline assist right now so there's no way to apply the code.

What, that was a thing? I was copypasteing manually, which was annoying and error prone, that's why I like the new agent panel more.

Oops, I guess.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by sapiogram »

dvtkrlbs wrote: post #79
lordofgibbons wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on Linux (Ubuntu) and haven't had this blurry font issue with any other application that I've installed over the years.

Yeah the reason is Linux is supporting non integer scaling. Apple stubbornly doesn't

This issue happens without any scaling at all, on both Linux and MacOS.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nurumaik »

askonomm wrote: post #14
lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

1440p monitor would probably be why the text is blurry - there simply isn't enough pixels to make things smooth without resorting to special hacks to improve LowDPI text rendering, which with more and more displays being HiDPI many don't bother doing.

I remember coding on 640x480 monitor long ago and having no issues with text rendering

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by terminalbraid »

seafoamteal wrote: post #6

I generally use Neovim, but Zed was the first code editor that made me go, "Wow, I can see myself actually using this." My only gripe is the "Sign In" button at the top that I can't seem to remove. But apropos TFA, it's nice to see that telemetry is opt-in, not opt-out.

> that I can't seem to remove

It's open source, builds extremely well out of the box, and the UI is declarative.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nurumaik »

gunalx wrote: post #308

Like iy way more than the old one. (really didnt like how i couldnt just copy code blocks in one click) The new one seems interresting but useless without the agentic toolcalling, witch seems to be unsupported by most (even tool capable models like o4-mini or gemini2.5-pro. I would like to be able to supply debug info like before, as well as importing regular text threads into the context.

I really liked to be able to copy with 3-4 keypresses and now I have to reach for the mouse. Ig can't satisfy everyone

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by WD-42 »

sapiogram wrote: post #175
lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

Thank you, I bring this up in every Zed thread on the internet, hopefully the devs will eventually fix it. Until they do, Zed is simply unusable on regular-DPI displays, at least in light mode. See these screenshots: Example Zed screenshot, using "Ayu Light": https://i.ibb.co/Nr8SjvR/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-11-10... Same code in VS Code: https://i.ibb.co/YZfPXvZ/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-13-41...

Zed defaults to a font weight a little thin for my taste, increase it and it will probably solve your issue. I don’t see anything really wrong with the first screenshot, might just be a matter of what you are used to.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jojohohanon »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

Does your monitor have a nonstandard rgb pattern? If zed is trying to do its own subpixel rendering then getting the pattern wrong is going to mess up your results.

(Or are you using it in vertical orientation?)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by kristopolous »

SafeDusk wrote: post #84

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

I'm doing something similar https://github.com/kristopolous/llmehelp

The goal is composable semantic routing -- seamlessly traversal between different tools through things like saved outputs and conversational partials.

Routing similar to pipewire, conversation chains similar to git, and URI addressable conversations similar to xpath.

This is being built application down to ensure usability, design sanity and functionality.

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