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Posted by salkahfi 23 hours ago

Zed 1.0(zed.dev)
1927 points | 609 commentspage 8
realo 15 hours ago|
Nice! I might try it, it seems genuinely innovative.

I don't need much from an editor. Instant cold start, sane colors, sane folding in origami style , like "kent folding" allows to do on vim ( https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=416 ).

Not much, but it seems all modern editors fail to do good origami folding.

Does Zed do this?

Frannky 7 hours ago||
I love zed. What CLI agent and model do you use with it? I am looking for something on par with CC+Opus4.6, possibly subscription-based
johntopia 5 hours ago||
i have been a zed junkie since it came out. i feel very happy for the team. and they seem to be very focused and disciplined about what they are building. it makes me feel like i am making the right bet!
gpm 22 hours ago||
Still absolutely no support for screen readers?

Despite promising it for years and every comparable product having it.

MoonWalk 19 hours ago||
Well, just fired it up on Windows, and already dislike it. And I went in with a positive attitude, because I would welcome a better tool than VS Code.

Main problem: No menu. Where are the settings? The first thing I wanted to do was move the file treeview to the left side; I don't know what country the authors live in, but in Western countries we read from left to right. But nope, there's no View menu or anything of the sort.

Then I examined every other little button around the UI, to no avail. I want to get stuff done; not play with an Advent calendar, hunting for goodies.

nbf_1995 19 hours ago|
> There's no View menu

Control + , > Window & Layout > Show Menus = true

This unhides the menu instead of hiding everything behind a burger. This should be the default. The defaults are awful in many ways and they've only gotten worse with the recent panel rearrangement.

VerifiedReports 10 hours ago||
Why on earth would anyone guess that? That is absurd.

I had the same problem and there's not even a burger anywhere.

But... thank you for posting that.

christoff12 17 hours ago||
I like Zed for the same reason I liked Atom: it's very light. These past few months my workflow has basically consisted of me running Codex + Gemini CLI in the terminal panel and hopping through files in another. Easy-peasy.

It's a nice departure from the visual overstimulation I get while in VS Code (for which I have to take some blame as I need to remove some installed plugins).

There are a couple of features shown in the v1.0 video that I was unaware of and am keen to check out.

LucasOe 22 hours ago||
Feature-wise, Zed is still far from VS Code, but for me, the change has been worth it for the performance increase alone. I'm really happy with Zed, and I think it has a bright future ahead. Congratulations on the 1.0 release!
swiftcoder 22 hours ago||
Good for them, but I wish they'd hurry up and catch up on some of the big missing features. Really hoping they'll accept my PR to add the missing call hierarchy feature before the GitHub issue turns 2 years old :)
mlsu 20 hours ago||
I switched to Zed for the first time over the weekend on a somewhat complex mixed C/rust project. I was able to set the whole thing up in about an hour to my liking and it is a really nice IDE, coming from bloated VS Code. I think they have a really nice AI-assisted coding setup, I think that the "file review pane, in line with IDE" UX is correct for AI tools. I'm skeptical that terminal or "agent" based AI programming is viable long-term.
mikepurvis 22 hours ago|
I'm trying it out, looks pretty decent.

For better or worse, my current workflow is to do most things through WSL on Windows 11. VSCode supports running the editor natively on Windows, but then having an agent or something inside WSL that lets me remote control what's going on there. Does Zed do anything similar?

Currently I'm just access the workspace in Zed via Windows Explorer, but I wonder if that's going to kneecap some of the integrations.

EDIT: nm, Zed supports exactly the same kind of remote editor session, via hamburger -> File -> Open Remote

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