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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Emacs server is quite straightforward. M-x server-start in a running emacs, then emacsclient . emacsclient -c if you want to open the file in a new window, or emacsclient -t if you want to open it in your current terminal. C-x # when you're done editing the file.

myhome>> emacs --daemon

  emacsclient -ca '' 
Connect to the daemon if it’s running, start it if it’s not.

  alias emacs="emacsclient -ca ''"

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

Most programmers I know prefer macOS above all other. Is it different where you’re from?

Yes, I run docker for a lot of workloads, and I can't drop the $3000+ they ask for a 32GB machine, where the same upgrade is like $100 for a regular Windows laptop.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Heard of Helix? It's a bit more Vim to Zed's VSCode, but it's open source and Rust too! It also comes with rust-analyzer and tree-sitter included. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

Helix doesn't have a plugin system: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122

Just like Zed?

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Zed developers, please don't. I don't want my core editor potentially sending out my code to who knows where or wasting cycles analyzing it. If people want this just let it be a plugin.

> Zed supports GitHub Copilot out of the box, and you can use GPT-4 generate or refactor code by pressing ctrl-enter and typing a natural language prompt. https://zed.dev/ Seems like that ship has sailed. Maybe it's a plugin already or could be in the future, but that's not on GP's suggestion.

I’d much more prefer keeping all these Ai tools as plugins to keep the editor light.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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To any of the project members here: viewing the zed.dev home page using Safari on an iPhone shows text being cut off. I can’t seem to scroll to the right either to view the remaining content.

I have the same issue in Yandex Browser (based on Chrome) on Android.

I think this is my first time reading about someone using Yandex browser

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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They have investors, it's in their FAQ.

What do investors get out of that deal? Positive karma?

Another FAQ explains that enterprise support is coming. So I think they will go with the free/OS model to saturate the market, but they will charge for corporate licenses. That's something investors can understand. Hopefully they didn't pick the greedy ones.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…

Ive been wanting a syntax-tree-viewer for months, to help me learn functional languages where figuring out what is even going on syntax-wise in the exmaples provided by tutorials keeps being an issue for me. Does anyone know of a way to see a syntax tree for any given snippet of code for any given language? I'd try Zed, but I'll have to wait for Linux support.

I am not sure what debug syntax tree mode does in Zed, but if it's about tree-sitter generated syntax tree, you can see that in Neovim or Emacs (assuming you have major-mode/grammar loaded):

1) In Neovim, do `:TSPlaygroundToggle`

2) In Emacs, do `M-x treesit-explore-mode`

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