Uninstalling Zed Documentation

[AnjaliPhukan]

Based on issue #29147, I'm writing up a section called "Uninstalling Zed" in the Zed documentation under "General" tab. For MacOS, the new documentation states to use brew uninstall and for Linux it states to use zed --uninstall which was discussed in discussion post #14267. I'm not sure how to handle Windows uninstalls, as I don't have a windows machine to test it on.

I wanted to see if folks wanted to discuss a couple points before I create a pull request, or if I should go ahead with a pull request! The two loose ends are discussing:

• about adding a new "Uninstall Zed" section of the "General" tab in the documentation, as opposed to appending the information to an existing section
• what should be put on the documentation for Windows installs

[SomeoneToIgnore]

For MacOS, the new documentation states to use brew uninstall and for Linux it states to use zed --uninstall

This is odd, as should not be OS-specific, but installation-specific: e.g. I do not have Zed installed via Brew and some people may have installed Zed via some Linux package managers.

what should be put on the documentation for Windows installs

1. Windows is not supported so we can omit it.

2. What do you reasonably expect to be there in the future?

zed --special-windows-uninstall or, maybe, zed --uninstall, after all?

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Overall, it seems that all we have to mention in the docs is the presence of the --uninstall command for cases when Zed is not installed via package managers, no special cases for any platform so far.

[AnjaliPhukan]

That's a good point, we don't necessarily know how the user installed Zed. My thought process was that the current documentation mentions brew in the macOS installation section and the installation script for the Linux section. But if someone is using a package manager, we can't really give detailed instructions for every package manager that's out there and documentation for uninstalling apps using package managers is better handled by the package managers themselves.

So following your recommendation, the best places to mention the --uninstall flag would probably be in the "Getting Started" section after the installation instructions and in the "Linux" section after the installation script is introduced.

Open to notes on this!