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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

  • blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml
    23·
    4 months ago

    I am BEGGING for any editor other than VSCode to have decent remote development. I want to go open source but everything I’ve tried (remote-nvim, distant, tramp, vscodium, etc.) just doesn’t cut it.

    • flux@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Apparently Lapce has remote development as its core feature. But I only (re?)learned of it today…

      How didn’t tramp work out for you?

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
      41·
      4 months ago

      Have you tried running doom emacs in tmux on the remote server and accessing it with ssh? Doom emacs is all the good of an emacs environment, all the good of vim keybinds, and they worked in a decent amount of optimizations so it only loads the necessary stuff on demand (mine has a startup time of just over 1 second, slower than vim but barely an inconvenience). Can write a quick script to ssh copy (or git pull) your current configs on the server so you only have to maintain one set of configs if you want

      scp ~/.config/doom/config.el username@server:~/.config/doom/config.el

      Run emacs in tmux if you want to keep the emacs session open across multiple ssh sessions

    • ErnieBernie10@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      What I do is use distrobox or any devpod and install it in the container and launch from cli. Works perfectly for me.

  • aramus@lemmy.world
    205·
    4 months ago

    I still don’t understand why I should need GPU acceleration for my fucking TEXT EDITOR

  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
    11·
    4 months ago

    Interesting project, how ever it will be hard to compete with existing editors and its plugin eco-systems.

    • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      I don’t think so. The guys who write the plugins are the cracks and the cracks will use zed.

    • Bolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Very first impressions since I literally just downloaded before writing this, and haven’t read the manual, I may change my mind with more experience.

      • It’s incredibly snappy, to my eyes as fast as Helix.
      • A lot of stuff that took me a while to figure out in VS Code was immediately obvious. How to toggle inlay hints for Rust? Parameter Icon > Inlay Hints (with the keyboard shortcut there for easy toggling).
      • Interactive is generally intuitive because it seems pretty permissive. Tab vs Enter to autocomplete? Either! ctrl-shift-Z vs ctrl-Y to redo? Same thing!
      • After being so used to Helix I often reach for keybinds that don’t exist. I might have to learn Vim keybinds because I’m definitely going to keep trying Zed.
      • Not sure how I feel about what seems to be an inline discord-like chat/voice-call feature.

      Going to check out if there’s git integration, because I couldn’t easily find it.

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
    6·
    4 months ago

    I tried saving to a file that required root and it didn’t give any prompt to enter the password. On VSCodium normally if you are trying to write to a file that requires sudo then it prompts you.

    Is there a way to save to root files with Zed?

  • Simmy@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    4 months ago

    Great another editor. Now what we need is a good PS alternative so we can all move away from Windows.

  • jaxxed@lemmy.world
    42·
    4 months ago

    Zed seems cool, but not much better than other options. I am still kind of thrown off by the immediate GH/CoPilot integration. Am I the an old man left in the caves of feeling that I don’t need the AI help?