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In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who’s been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed’s Linux version and how it’s taking shape
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Does zed have helix keybindings?
vscodium is enough.
vscodium doesn’t run at 120 FPS and isn’t native, which are Zed’s goals
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Especially when you have a bunch of extensions and a large-enough file, you want it to parse, highlight, and suggest fast.
So it doesn’t run at a wastefully high FPS for a text editor? Is that supposed to be a selling point for Zed that it renders many, many more frames than a text editor needs?
Letters appearing when you type them improves user experience dramatically
Agreed, anything below 5 FPS is probably a bit slow for a text editor.
Is Zed a text editor?
It is a lifestyle.
A vibe
So, it’s trying to replace Emacs?
If Zed goes wrong, can we just fork it? If yes, I’d like to use it.
It’s open source, so theoretically, yes.
Compiled it yesterday on endeavourOS, it’s just 3 or 4 commands so give it a try if you’re interested. Still have to use it for coding but I set it as default for some source files and it does immediately open on click, with syntax highlight (I was searching for something like this)
I feel like they’ve got couple of things wrong or they base of outdated information.
The packaging, yeah it’s still a mess if you absolutely have to put it in a native system package, but building something like Flatpak would generally be better. Or just build binaries against some common runtime like Ubuntu LTS and other distros will figure out, there’s really not much more here. It really sounds like someone wrote it in 2000’s about all distros being completely different and it’s expected to fall apart if you attempt to run it on say Fedora. They’re really not that different today. Also, universal package formats exist.
They completely skip XDG desktop portals that can provide at least huge chunk of functionality they need. There’s really no need to talk to GTK or QT directly. simply require portals and use its function for choosing file or directory. That’s it, you’ve got native file picker that also works in sandboxes.
I’ve been waiting for this. Been using Kate on Windows and Linux, which is great, but running Zed is just so lightweight. It’s like a truly open source Sublime Text.
been using WHAT??
A wild username reference appears!
There’s an editor called Kate. It’s probably not named after you, but if you’re young enough and the person who named you was into tech, you might be named after it.
I named myself but im into tech does that count
