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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by swiftcoder »

wldcordeiro wrote: post #134
swiftcoder wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sort of a recurring theme, I find. They have 600+ issues that have been open for over a year, was hoping they'd drive down the backlog a bit before declaring victory

Go look at any large project, they have 500+/1000+ issues and many are ancient. Chrome, Firefox, you name it. I wouldn't be surprised if many issues have even been solved or need new reproduction steps but there's a difficulty to triaging all the issues as well.

> I wouldn't be surprised if many issues have even been solved or need new reproduction steps

All the ones I'm subscribed to are straight-up feature gaps versus competing IDEs. Though of course, there is significant selection bias to my subscriptions

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by kstrauser »

jorgeleo wrote: post #370

I was all for trying it until I saw this in the License Agreement: "4.1. Zed's Use of Customer Data Customer hereby grants Zed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-sublicensable (except to service providers and Customer’s designees), non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 15.1) right to use, copy, store, disclose, transmit, transfer, display, modify, create derivative works from, col…

That license agreement covers their online service if you opt in to use it. This reads like every ToS for a SaaS product I’ve read in ages. If you don’t want to use their paid service, don’t create an account and configure it in Zed, and then this doesn’t apply to you.

I’m not associated with Zed in any way except as a user. That said, this is a bonkers misinterpretation of their ToS. You don’t grant them the right to eat all your data just by using the editor. You do give them the right to process your data if you sign up for an account and opt in to send them all your data for processing.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by KomoD »

I love Zed, it's my main editor and has been for a while. I disable all the AI stuff, though, as it's not for me.

It has some issues and is missing some stuff I want, but I'm happy with it anyway.

One feature I use a lot is remote development over SSH.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by jbrooksuk »

grimgrin wrote: post #653
giancarlostoro wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly this is how I use Sublime as well, though not anymore, on work systems the new Notepad app has tabs finally, and can do exactly that...

many became used to this behavior with notepad++ and though it's not cross-platform, if you never entirely left windows, you're possibly still using it. especially if it's to paste giant json blobs, as npp has a plugin system, with json formatting and the like ~ anyways, sometimes i think about npp when subline is mentioned

Notepad++ is now on macOS too! https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by Intralexical »

coldtea wrote: post #627
rootnod3 wrote: post #518

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That should be off by default. That alone is a "I won't use this" for me.

I was willing to give it another go. Now I read on this thread that it installs tons of node packages (so much for Rust native code) and even Go packages, and gets many extra processes running along with it.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589

TL;DR: Mix of language tooling, unsigned proprietary blobs, corrupted and/or GLIBC-dependent files, redundant copies of already-installed executables. The Node packages especially are able to run scripts on install. Personal preference aside, might also create issues with security laws, certifications. All without user consent.

Issues opened in January and June 2024. They've been rejected, closed, and opened a couple times since then. No changes directly improving this yet as of April 2026.

Personally, I think even if they eventually fix this, given the attitude shown towards their users' machines, I should probably just use an editor where I don't have to worry about it.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by unselect5917 »

>2.3. Acceptable Use >The Service uses technology provided by multiple third party AI subprocessors (the “AI Providers”) including but not limited to: Anthropic, PBC (“Anthropic”), Google LLC (“Google”), LiveKit Incorporated, OpenAI, LLC (“OpenAI”) etc., as may be updated from time to time. Customer may not use the Service in a manner that violates any applicable AI Provider policy which are listed on https://zed.dev/acceptable-use-policies, including Anthropic’s Usage Policy, Google Gemini’s Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, GitHub's Acceptable Use Policy, LiveKit’s Acceptable Use Policy; OpenAI’s Usage Policies or Sharing and Publication Policy; and Community Guidelines; each of which may be updated from time to time and are expressly incorporated by reference. Customer is solely responsible to check for updates to the applicable AI Provider policy from time to time.

>Customer may not use the Service in a manner that violates any applicable AI Provider policy

Excuse me?

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by Intralexical »

xpe wrote: post #514
jorgeleo wrote: post #370

I was all for trying it until I saw this in the License Agreement: "4.1. Zed's Use of Customer Data Customer hereby grants Zed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-sublicensable (except to service providers and Customer’s designees), non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 15.1) right to use, copy, store, disclose, transmit, transfer, display, modify, create derivative works from, col…

The comment above has started a sh-tstorm. Please, slow down and learn about the details before jumping to conclusions. Most of us here did NOT "go pro" in the law. [1] For those that want to educate themselves, you could do worse than immediately leave HN and go _learn_: 1. SaaS Agreements: Key Contractual Provisions https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/bu... 2. Cornell Law School's Wex: https:/…

If you need an education in law to be able to trust a business isn't trying to steal from you, then maybe you just shouldn't trust that business at all.

Especially for something like a code editor, where plenty of less-shady competitors are available.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by KomoD »

npw55036 wrote: post #608

I used the fastest editor I've ever used, and the UI design was also very good, but the Git interface didn't show the commit history, which was a bit like JetBrains' Git interface.

> but the Git interface didn't show the commit history

It does, since 0.231, but it doesn't support the remote development feature.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by KomoD »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #132
johnfn wrote: post #88

I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes. Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.

Does it really not let you change the colors? Am very unhappy at the modern trend to allow only canned themes.

It does, you can make custom themes or use ones made by the community. https://zed.dev/extensions?filter=themes
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