Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

Starts super quickly and offered downloading omnisharp along with needed language server when I opened a c# source file. The only thing holding me back from exploring it more is that it has no window decorations so I can't easily manipulate the window (under Gnome with Wayland)

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

#5

Post by miohtama » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:56 AM UTC

doubtfuluser wrote: post #3

One of the big selling points of VS code is nowadays the plugin eco-system. How is that with Zed?

Smaller, as Visual Studio Code has a decade of headstart and Microsoft behind them. May change long term.

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by _flux » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:56 AM UTC

Zed certainly seems interesting!

I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind. I don't think Zed has any way to extend its behavior beyond configuration options, and if it doesn't have a scripting language to go with it now, then it seems quite unlikely it will have a good one in the future either.

Based on another comment here I did some more searching and I found this: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions . It seems though the extension abilities are limited to dealing with different kind of files, not for really extending Zed's abilities: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/blob/main/AUTHO... https://docs.rs/zed_extension_api/latest/zed_extension_api/ .

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by rafamvc » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:57 AM UTC

Is anyone using zed with success? I tried to use but it seemed slow to search compared to sublime.

Lots of features were nicer, but search is my most used feature.

From all the other possibilities, this seem the one that I am more inclined to successfully transition to.

I really liked sublime when I switched, but now it feels stuck in the past.

I am waiting for the right time to try again. If you are using and liking it, I would like to know what are the features you most like.

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by vouaobrasil » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:58 AM UTC

I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

#9

Post by aerzen » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:59 AM UTC

I've seem zed a few times now, but I've always dismissed it as it was mac only. I'm now looking at features and it seems like a good base for "the last code editor I'll use" :D

Re: Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

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Post by monax » Mon, May 06, 2024, 12:00 PM UTC

vouaobrasil wrote: post #8

I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).

You can remove all the AI stuff from the settings

  "collaboration_panel": {
    "button": false
  },
  "assistant": {
    "version": "1",
    "button": false
  },
  "chat_panel": {
    "button": false
  },
  "notification_panel": {
    "button": false
  },