Positive Feedback ❤️

[JosephTLyons]

Everyone loves to read positive feedback; feel free to use this issue as a place to jot down the things you enjoy about Zed. If you want to give permission to the Zed team to use your comment in promotional content (Zed Twitter, zed.dev, etc.), place a 🚀 reaction on your post.

[aadibajpai]

one thing that has really annoyed me in vs code or intellij is that accepting a code completion while the cursor is mid word will insert the whole suggestion there and ruin the whole idea of completion. To get a better idea of what I mean, see this:

Screen.Recording.2022-06-25.at.12.51.13.AM.mov

I love that zed is smarter and completes the word correctly.

[everdrone]

Maybe off topic but what did you use to record your screen?

[Roba1993]

1. Most insane feature is the problem tab. When editing a failure in rust it changes the failure for all the same occurrences. This safes a lot of time and is super handy to work with.
2. The reformat of the code while saving is the most useful OOTB setting/feature I missed everywhere else

[Ornataweaver]

Hi dear Roba, I were born on 1993 as well. 😊
How can I access the problem tab?
Thank you.

[JosephTLyons]

I enjoy how responsive Zed is to every single keystroke - writing code and taking notes in Zed is ultra satisfying.

[gobijan]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

[l0go]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

Pretty sure it is a custom font called Zed Mono, it is basically just a custom configuration of Iosevka.

[Arinaska]

Looks better than losevka anyway.

[iamnbutler]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

I just made the zed-fonts repo public. You can grab them there.

Pretty sure it is a custom font called Zed Mono, it is basically just a custom configuration of Iosevka.

Correct! You can build your own variant of Iosevka here: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer or by creating your own private-build-plans.toml.

[ghost]

Super great how you guys have opened up the issue list and are open to input and feedback! I can't wait for linux support and I can start using it. VScode and idea suite tools are memory hogs and extremely slow... can't wait for the responsiveness and light-weight experience that zed will deliver.

[fdionisi]

With Zed, writing code is an absolute pleasure. Its snappy interactions and lean UI help me focus on bringing ideas into reality. Having an editor that doesn't get in your way feels like having superpowers - it's like having a thin layer between my brain and the computer.

Discovering the journal was also mind-blowing; now, I have one reason less to move away from the editor, which massively helps battle context-switching.

I almost entirely switched from VSCode to Zed in the past few weeks. I can use Zed for everything, but I still rely on VSCode for a few nits:

• Terraform (and HCL) integration
• Deep git integration (i.e. GitLens)

[lucastrvsn]

Even in the current state I'm really really REALLY happy using Zed. Everything is so lightweight and fast that I can't believe. I've turn the vim mode on and switch completely from neovim and VSCode. Thank you so much for this editor, I want to pay to use it!

[battisti]

Zed shows that performance does matter. Experiencing the responsiveness and low resource requirements is like realising how nice the silence is when somebody turns off the AC

[ijzerbroot]

Startup-speed and LSP's responsiveness are simply amazing and since I am a sucker for looks, I'd also like to give props for making it look and feel so polished already! (including the nice little touch with rounded selected area highlights). Love that it's not forcing me to open a "project" so I can just open random files.
Totally brilliant implementation of project-wide search with live-edit and a nice-and-fast (syntax-highlighted!) outline view. Truly sweet.

[Daeraxa]

The speed is honestly amazing. I don't really use macOS and the only machine I have is really rather slow (2014 vintage mac mini). Atom or VSCodium take sometimes >30s to load, Zed pops up in less than 5.

[rbetts]

Just getting started with Zed. First impressions are that my other editors are crazy slow :-). The outline is a killer feature (and also surprisingly fast). Thanks!

[spaceybit]

It's still early days using Zed for me, but I love it so much!! You've got a fan in me 🚀

Things I like already

1. I don't risk grinding my laptop to a halt like I do with PyCharm and VS Code
2. It's so fast!! Literally. So fast. This Github form is feeling so slow after using Zed for a while 😅

[lucastrvsn]

Another feedback from me: the new release fixing the input method for international keyboards is amazing. Working fine for me with US-International layout, thank you for this!

[garfunkel]

I love the fact that it's not Electron garbage, and that it's bloody fast to open, every keystroke, and to close. 🙏

I also love that even though the SSH/remote dev feature is in alpha, it already works better than VS Code for most uses - it's literally 10x as fast, or more. Worked first time, beautifully. 🥇

[jakucermak]

My words

[dariru3]

As a beginner coder, the Zed editor has made a real impact on my coding experience and saved me a ton of money as well!

Zed is incredibly lightweight and efficient, which has been a savior for my aging hardware. I was able to transition from VS Code seamlessly, saving me both time and the cost of upgrading my equipment. I really appreciate that it runs on older computers like mine.

As a coding learner, the integration of the OpenAI API has streamlined my coding workflow. Being able to chat with ChatGPT directly in the sidebar has eliminated the need to switch context, which has boosted my productivity. I appreciate the ease of access, as well as the fact that using the API is much cheaper than paying for ChatGPT Plus.

The UI is simple and intuitive if your first editor was VS Code. The interface is clean and the whole thing gets out of the way. The linters beautify my code so that it looks way better than what I had typed. I keep note of the changes after hitting save so that I can follow the linting principles in my own coding.

When I saw this discussion thread, I had to post to tell the developers and all the contributors how much I appreciate their work.

[arrrrny]

I LOVE ZED. Once in a while we get some excellent product in the tech arena. ZED is one of them. I even created a ZED theme on VScode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ARRRRNY.zed-one-theme which I barely use only when I have to for some extensions.

I am using my ZED editor on a 4K vertical 27" monitor and I enjoy coding for hours daily. Assistant Panel is amazing to use. Great job TEAM!

[JosephTLyons]

Love seeing this! Thanks for sharing @arrrrny!

[fuzenco]

You’re in the wrong discussion area. This channel is only for positive feedback.

[SephReed]

I really appreciate how fast this is! It's not like I need it to be 100x faster than my brain can process, but that's what makes it art. Computers are amazing, but code gets worse just as fast as they improve. It's hard to believe just how amazing computers could be if the code values of the past (optimization) were applied to the hardware of today (also optimization, but takes longer).

I didn't have to search for answers to much of anything while setting Zed up, it mostly just worked out of the box.

There were some issues I ran into with the default settings, and every one of them I was able to disable by reading over the settings.

Open source is great. I've never actually had a feature request be given a positive response, but at least I can imagine some day having the time to do it myself. And it's a sign of tegridy.

And I know this is one of the lowliest of compliments imaginable, but it's also not Microsoft! :p More importantly, it's a step away from the hyper centralization of heartless conglomerates that exist to hoard resources. Starting with my CPU!

[arrrrny]

Here is another ONE. ZED doing coding for me. Turn on volume.
you can VOTE, react on my insta below.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_oRMFFtRWi/

RPReplay_Final1725800269.mp4

My setup in action
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[metahke]

I love Zed.

[sylbru]

The multi-buffer is such a great idea 😍

[sylbru]

Not sure how common it is in other editors, but I love how smooth it is renaming/moving an opened file via the Project panel. I feel like you would have to close and reopen the file in most editors, here the buffer is following the move easily and you can go back to work instantly.

[artivilla]

f******* ❤️ zed.

[htor]

Using Zed feels exciting. I love the minimalistic look and feel. It plays the role well of being a thing in the background while at the same time being powerful. Excited to see it develop further!

[phil65]

Lovin the progress. Used SublimeText for 10+ years, you now give me a big headache. 😄
Really like AI integration as well as multi-buffer editing. Excellent work!

[Cheirnomus]

It has not been mentioned above but the outliner / folding feature in the editor is outstanding. I've used various outliners over the years to brainstorm and organize large amounts of both text and code and Zed is the best plus the fastest.

The outliner in VSCode left a lot to be desired. I would always have to be very careful to unfold what I was about to copy or cut just to make sure I got all of it on the clipboard. I had to resort to adding end-of-section periods as a work-around to make outlining bearable. I also had to keep files shorter, where in Zed I can work fast with much larger files.

I'm just super glad to say that none of that pesky stuff is required when using the Zed editor. I can feel confident that Zed understands what a outliner is and has made it work the way an outliner should work.

Thanks to Zed, my outliner distractions and headaches are now a thing of the past!

[j11e]

Zed is truly a joy to use. The performance and vim mode are top tier, but my personal favorite thing is how basically everything is an editable buffer. The assistant panel is an editable text buffer, the config is an editable JSON file, project-wide search results are an editable multi-buffer... The UX is just so consistent and smooth. Thanks for the hard work!