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I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by gabeidx »

bjackman wrote: post #310

Zed is faster and less annoying than VSCode, I hope to switch to it permanently sooner or later. Annoyingly the only hard blocker I have right now is lack of a call-graph navigation widget. In VSCode you can bring up an expandable tree of callers for a function. Somehow I am completely dependent on this tiny little feature for reading complex code! The annoying thing is: "can't you just use an extension for this?" No…

Does "Find All References opt+shift+F12" function help mitigate this for you? It opens a buffer that you can use to navigate, and it's a built-in feature not an extension.

Or do you want a more graphical tree view?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by tripflag »

criemen wrote: post #220
ashvardanian wrote: post #210

I’m currently using a mix of Zed, Sublime, and VS Code. The biggest missing piece in Zed for my workflow right now is side-by-side diffs. There’s an open discussion about it, though it hasn’t seen much activity recently: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770 Stronger support for GDB/LLDB and broader C/C++ tooling would also be a big win. It’s pretty wild how bloated most software has become. Huge th…

> I’m currently using a mix of Zed, Sublime, and VS Code. Can you elaborate on when you use which editor? I'd have imagined that there's value in learning and using one editor in-depth, instead of switching around based on use-case, so I'd love to learn more about your approach.

in my case, I use zed for almost everything, and vscodium for three things:

search across all files; easier to navigate the results with the list of matching lines in the sidebar, and traversing the results with cursor up/down, giving full context

git; side-by-side diff, better handling of staging, and doesn't automatically word-wrap commit messages (I prefer doing that myself)

editing files which have a different type of indentation than what is configured in zed, since zed does not yet have autodetect

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

james2doyle wrote: post #160
adonese wrote: post #93

Sublime is quite good. I have always been using sublime for quick edits, dumping notes etc. But lately I came to appreciate it more as a lightweight IDE. I use go (lsp and some plugins) and ST (sqltools) in addition to package manager and project manager. I like how fast it is, how well polished the editor is. And generally all plug-ins i use work nicely. Also claude helped a lot (eg writing some shortcuts for specif…

I don’t think people realize how easy it is to make Sublime plugins. They can be as simple as a single .py file. No dependencies install step, no meta files, no rituals to go through. Just drop the .py file in the right directory. I’ve used Gemini to build about 3-4 plugins of various complexity and they all work great

> Just drop the .py file in the right directory.

Can I drop it in the 'wrong' directory and have ST pick it up from there? I like apps that are as flexible as possible when it comes to file organization.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by ThisNameIsTaken »

throwfaraway135 wrote: post #70

I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me. Other pain points: - Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395 - VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better

Zed has built in REPL for several languages, which does have image preview [0]

It uses the Jupytext format [1], for Python at least. Which frankly, is much more friendly to VCS than notebooks.

I agree on the 'format on save' as undesirable default, but disabling that was as easy as flicking a switch.

[0]: https://zed.dev/docs/repl [1]: https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #250
r4victor wrote: post #38

Hi, I'm the author of the post. I hope it resonates with many who got tired of VSCode and found Zed. I'd also like to add there are many small features I miss in Zed that I don't go over in the post, e.g. autodetect and respect file's indentation ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4681 ). But I see Zed is actively shipping the missing features, so I believe they'll improve significantly over the next year…

Have you tried using vim? Or rather nvim? If tinkering is your thing, feel free to completely do your own setup but out of the box lazyvim is pretty sane and you may not need much to get it to your liking. But it’s very nice to easily able to extend or modify to fit your workflow. I’m just curious what people are getting out of zed that seems like vim has available.

I use both zed and vim, but the former for 'big' work because of:

a) file tree - I really like being able to 'root' the view at a directory, explore the hierarchy, and easily open any file within it

b) LSP - Zed's auto-formatting is it's best feature, for me

I generally like a whole bunch of things the gui gives me, but I would probably drop zed if I could get these two features working as well (or, at least, almost as well) in vi.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by cpt_sobel »

emilecantin wrote: post #63

I switched to Zed from a tmux/nvim setup. I think Zed is the first editor I've tried that has a good enough Vim mode for me to switch and keep my built-up muscle memory.

I tried switching to Zed from vim / Idea Suite with IdeaVim, and I was disappointed that I could not just use my .vimrc, have they fixed it yet? It's currently the only blocker for me.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by scotty79 »

ustad wrote: post #317
bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

VS Code is a flagship product from Microsoft. Relying on “we try our best to push fixes as soon as possible” for a global opt-out setting feels below the engineering standards we’d expect. This should be fail-safe by design, not best-effort.

Everything in the world is best-effort at best. People who tell you otherwise about their pridhct are just lying to you. Do you prefer being lied to? Criticizing people for being honest about it is a good way to be lied to more.
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