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Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by pjerem »

thecatapps wrote: post #10

I'm extremely glad to see something like this. I've tried to use Zed so many times, and this might sound neurotic -- but there are just so many little theming things that make a difference to me. For example, https://imgur.com/a/ia2GCgg -- top is VSCode, bottom is Zed. Both using Svelte, and using a similar theme. - Angle brackets are a different color - Capitalized built-in components are a different color - Boolean…

FWIW, I have had good results asking LLMs converting themes from an app/ide to another.

Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by mirekrusin »

iamskeole wrote: post #19
janice1999 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions. https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

That's all great (genuine), however my concern is less around "I can do X", more around "I can guarantee it cannot do Y" – ideally in one, global, obvious place.

At the moment it seems it's great for personal development and development in environments where concerns around IP are less of an issue.

It's not so clear how to use it in corporation context where you'd be in breach of employment contract accidentally because defaults mean sending confidential IP to 3rd parties.

Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by lejalv »

riidom wrote: post #14

Ha.. thats a very cool way of adjusting. themes. I hoped for being able to adjust a lot of things around markdown edit and markdown preview though. My biggest problem with Zed right now. Themes are actually ok to me. Maybe thats on their todo though who knows.

For markdown preview, a recent release added these two settings (top-level in your settings.json):

    "markdown_preview_font_family": "Fira Sans Condensed",
    "markdown_preview_theme": "Ayu Dark",
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/54003

Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by lycopodiopsida »

MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #2

This feels shallow, but one of the biggest things keeping me from using zed is the lack of a good default dark theme. The defaults all feel very low contrast, gray on gray that makes the experience feel dull and off putting to me, even if the editor itself is great.

It may feel even more shallow, but what keeps me on emacs are modus-themes. With luck, you can find a passable theme in your editor/ide of choice, but to find a good, high-contrast light theme is almost impossible.

Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by odiroot »

I tried using it to reproduce my favourite Soda Dark / Sunburst colour combination from Sublime Text. It was a really sisyphean task.

In the end I fed some screenshots (and original ST4 config) to AI studio and it came up with something workable but not exactly a replica. Naturally different editors have different semantic tokens.

Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Post by ubercow13 »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #8

Zed is "almost there" for me. The theme builder is good and easy to use, and I only needed a few minutes to make my own. Syntax coloring is almost there, but still lacking (I use C/C++) Small visual adjustment like line height in the UI text is not configurable enough (only two settings) Scrolling should have a smooth option, nothing prevents it, it should be super easy to add, I find it easier on the eyes when I mov…

You could use Mos, which also has the advantage that smooth scrolling works the same in every app (speed, acceleration etc)

https://mos.caldis.me/

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