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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by pmarreck »

seoulbigchris wrote: post #405
yndoendo wrote: post #253

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Fun fact. I do not financially support any restaurant that has a Wall-street ticker. I wish more people would do this. There should be no reason to fund some CEO on Wall-street when we can benefit more by funding local communities. P.S. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and to engage with Amazon.

At first, I thought you meant restaurants which had a big scrolling ticker along the wall so patrons could watch the market while they dine.

Just my preference, but I'd like to know where said restaurant is, lol

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by jtbaker »

jtbaker wrote: post #34
css_apologist wrote: post #23

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nested is the main one, however i remember cases where a rule couldn't be parsed and the rest of the file went fuckidy this is pathetic, and really shows how much of a shitter css tooling currently resides in

Insert obnoxious tailwind comment

I feel bad about this comment as of today's news. I love tailwind and feel like it has supercharged my ability to be productive with CSS, but recognize that it can be overprescribed.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by james2doyle »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #323
james2doyle wrote: post #160

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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.

I believe if you are using a project workspace (working in a directory with a .sublime-project file) then you can also write plugins right there in the project. But, if you wanted, you can use symlinks. Sublime will follow symlinks. I use this to sync my settings to Dropbox so I can have the same setup on any computer

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by SnowingXIV »

benji8000 wrote: post #354
SnowingXIV wrote: post #250

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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.

+1 for lazyvim. I tried multiple times to switch to nvim from vscode, but lazyvim finally made it painless. love lazygit too. debugging in nvim also works like a charm.

Yep, same experience (except Sublime with vim bindings) lazygit + lazydocker is really nice. Folke has done a great job.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by schrodinger »

spartanatreyu wrote: post #417
sgc wrote: post #373

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Alternatively, use the single setting that was literally just given to you above. That is pretty much as easy as it gets without resurrecting Clippy to help you figure it out. It's not reasonable to expect a massive bloated gui if people have 10k+ settings they are using.

The problem is that they keep adding new ai "features" all under different names and different settings, then shuffling the settings around. Having a "master switch" doesn't matter, since their standard operating procedure is to waffle-stomp more "features" into vscode every month that will fall under a different setting and then they'll continue to shuffle them around. Their indifference towards their own user-hosti…

I'm confused—how does putting in a master switch for those who want to opt-out entirely from the AI revolution occurring at the moment not matter? Are you saying that new features will fail to respect it?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by guiambros »

cube00 wrote: post #420
cube00 wrote: post #345

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Something is going on, it's still timing out for me 20 hours later. curl https://tenthousandmeters.com curl: (35) TLS connect error: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading

Confirmed it works from AWS but not from my residential ISP. IPv6 is not setup so perhaps too much traffic out of the CGNAT IP got us blocked.

Old thread, but I just realized this domain was registered on 2025-12-27 11:49:33 UTC. Some DNS servers (e.g. nextDNS) block recently created domains, to curb spam and malware.

Also, for some reason Google Safe Browser thinks some pages on this site are unsafe [1]. It may well be a false positive, but it further contributes to the blocking. So it wasn't the slashdot effect after all.

[1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?u...

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by earthnail »

ThisNameIsTaken wrote: post #324
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/

Unfortunately, Jupyter notebooks can do a lot more than images. You can play audio (important in my domain), video, etc.

Audio playback support is missing in Zed as well. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14409

I really like Zed, and I want to use it but I keep going back to VSCode when I need to be productive on my code instead of messing with my editor. I use both at the same time because Zed feels so much nicer, but so far, VSCode's features are quite a bit head.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by rcleveng »

presbyterian wrote: post #399
rcleveng wrote: post #170

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue). If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then see if it can handle more advanced coding (which one the rotating list of various vscode forks handle today)

Have you tried BBEdit recently? It's incredibly configurable, AI features are entirely opt-in, and it supports LSPs now. It's my go-to for basically all text editing these days.

Not in like 20 years, I'll take a look again, it used to be my favorite back in os9 days

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by dgllghr »

dgllghr wrote: post #125
r4victor wrote: post #53

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Hmm, I found Zed to consume battery less than VScode on my M1 MBP. It's ~100 vs ~200 12h power consumption on average according to Activity Monitor. Do you compare it to VSCode?

Yes VSCode uses far less power than Zed on my machine. I believe it is probably related to these issues: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21146 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8043

It's unlikely that anyone will see this but I tried using Zed again after not using it for a while and the power draw is significantly lower! So I don't think it is related to those issues after all. I don't see much of a difference between Zed and VSCode in the amount of energy they use, but Zed is noticeably snappier (and not owned by MSFT)

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by cube00 »

guiambros wrote: post #436
cube00 wrote: post #420

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Confirmed it works from AWS but not from my residential ISP. IPv6 is not setup so perhaps too much traffic out of the CGNAT IP got us blocked.

Old thread, but I just realized this domain was registered on 2025-12-27 11:49:33 UTC. Some DNS servers (e.g. nextDNS) block recently created domains, to curb spam and malware. Also, for some reason Google Safe Browser thinks some pages on this site are unsafe [1]. It may well be a false positive, but it further contributes to the blocking. So it wasn't the slashdot effect after all. [1] https://transparencyreport.go…

You've looked up and linked the wrong domain.
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