I usually try to get into an IDE from vim every 6 months/year and Zed is the first IDE when I actually came close to being successful. Usually what kills me with IDEs is distractions, things getting in your way, and responsiveness. Zed is the "cleanest" IDE I've found so far on many of these points. Not totally 100% (pyright being the most prominent annoyance I'm trying to turn off right now) but not enough to make it give up in just a few hours!
Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#82Any pictures of how Zed actually looks? Searched their site and couldn't find any...
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#83Is there a way to disable all "collaborative" features, including removing the "Sign in" button?
Now that it's FOSS, you can fork it.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#84I like it! FEATURE REQUEST :) Would it be possible to have option+click+drag create multiple cursors where you drag and not a selection with cursor at the end? Basically, the behaviour that Sublime Text has—Sublime Text's multiple cursors are, frankly, awesome. I have found shift+option+drag to create a rectangle, but no way to create vertical lines of cursors through lines of text, and my favourite—drag down to the…
I think this might be an issue for the same thing:
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#85How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.
I only joined Zed, the company, a week ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but: I've never really used real-time sharing (tried VS Code's Live mode and other apps) for longer than just 1-2 attempts, but at Zed things are different somehow. Everybody is constantly available in a channel and people just hop in or out. In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others, using Zed's live mode. No video,…
> In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others
This sounds remarkably inefficient?
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#86I hope this leads to Zed being ported to other platforms (Linux, please!)
Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!
Is there any way to make it compatible with macOS 10.14? Your minimum macOS requirement is literally just one release away from what I have!
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#87That's great news. I actually like their zed font [1] which is custom-built from Iosevka. [2].
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#88I hope this leads to Zed being ported to other platforms (Linux, please!)
Speaking of Linux, are there any other editors we can use today? I tried to look for one recently but couldn't find anything. (edit: I mean collaborative editors)
nano, pico, vim, VS Code, Brackets, Notepadqq, Gedit, Kate, Leafpad, Geany
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#89I hope this leads to Zed being ported to other platforms (Linux, please!)
Speaking of Linux, are there any other editors we can use today? I tried to look for one recently but couldn't find anything. (edit: I mean collaborative editors)
All JetBrains IDEs work on Linux and all electron apps of course. Lapce seems like Zed and is already available on Linux. So is Sublime Text.
There's a whole list here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Docume...
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#90Also take a look at their freshly open-sourced Rust UI Framework (GPUI): https://www.gpui.rs
Worth noting that, like many immediate mode UIs, it seems to not integrate with OS accessibility infrastructure at all. That means any UI built with it will be a black box to anyone who needs accessibility tools like VoiceOver, text magnification, or semantic navigation. Hopefully that's fixable :/
It should be. There's AccessKit integration in egui (the most prominent Rust immediate mode GUI implementation) now, thanks to Matt Campbell's work. I would welcome GPUI and Zed adopting that, and I'm sure Matt can offer help in getting it integrated.