Resumable terminal sessions (like tmux, zellij) across zed reloads

[r-moore]

As mentioned here, when zed starts it re-opens previous terminal windows. The problem is that existing terminal processes would have been killed when restarting (or reloading) zed, so re-opening them is kind of pointless.

Losing local terminal tasks is a common annoyance when installing updates to zed.

I am thinking a wrapper for something like tmux or zellij might provide persistance of local terminal sessions (something the user could opt-in to). That kind of workaround is described here: https://medium.com/@joaomoreno/persistent-terminal-sessions-in-vs-code-8fc469ed6b41

Or else zed could have it's own separate process (system tray app?) to persist and manage terminal sessions across editor restarts. The zed app could 'connect' to these sessions when it opens.

[senguttuvang]

You may configure Zed to use Zellij. I have built a bridge for this

https://github.com/senguttuvang/Zellij-Zed-Bridge