Editing in the AI panel is gone (want it back)

[donboose]

Before the latest update in zed, you could modify the answer given by the LLM to you. The LLM is not gonna get everything right the first time, so re-prompting, getting the right answer and modifying the text generated by the LLM was crucial. This feature is now removed. You can no longer edit the text generated by the LLM.
The reason I want this feature back is because of the way LLMs work. If I ask something, it gets fed to the AI and generates response. The next time I prompt on the same context window (or the same chat), my first query, the LLM's first answer and my second query gets fed to the LLM. The LLM is not gonna get things right the first time. So what I can do is modify the LLM's answer to be correct, and remove the prompts that I made to debug the whole thing. This means that I save a lot on context window usage, which means that I can save on API credits.
This also means that zed used to better than other apps because of this feature.
Please bring this back (at least make this an optional feature - I don't know if it already is)

[andoni-hazaiah]

It's still available (by the name "New Text Thread"), however the multi-tab feature is gone.

A (huge) limitation is that now the old non-agent panel is constrained to a 120000 context window token count.

[donboose]

Oh yeah nice. Is there any way we can ask them to increase the context window token count

[andoni-hazaiah]

To the best of my knowledge, there is straightforward way to increase it. It become exceedingly difficult to arrive proper solutions, as I once could, due to this severe restriction. THis restriction has repressively affected my researches.

[ruutters]

That's really limiting. Once, due to this limitation, I tried to paste my entire conversation from the old-way panel to the new agentic panel the result I got is just awful, the model was just spitting non-sense, out of context content, so I gave up following this approach.

[andoni-hazaiah]

@donboose check out the @AlvaroParker PR as it implement Max Mode that allows a large context window from the old panel.

[dudegladiator]

Install older version - 0.181.8 - Working
Version - https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.181.8
Installation Guide - https://zed.dev/docs/linux

[G36maid]

I totally agree with this.
Before the update, I used the assist panel in Vim mode and could navigate through the text and code suggestions smoothly — no mouse needed, just keyboard. It felt like a seamless part of my workflow.

Now that I can’t edit or navigate between sections in the assist panel, it really breaks that flow.
I used to copy and tweak the AI's response directly to fit my use case, and edit inline when needed.

Would love to see :

• at least a setting/switch to re-enable the old assist panel behavior for those of us who preferred it.

[CkCreative]

There should be a setting to choose what to show by default when one opens the AI side panel. I like the old Text Thread view; In my view it was the greatest invention, now each time I am forced to click twice, one to open the AI side panel and then to choose the text thread view.

[AlvaroParker]

I've opened a PR to implement a setting to choose the default panel to open. See #31353.

[Codetheweb-true]

This is really awesome! Great job!

Would you mind to help in implement the Max Mode option for the Text Thread, since as said above by @andoni-hazaiah the context window is limited to 120000 tokens. That would be a game changer as New Text Thread feature would remain as powerful as it once was. This seemingly simple feature (Text Thread) is trully a great invention, as @CkCreative said as it grants great freedom and power to "bend" or tweak the conversation with the assistant, but Zed thinks otherwise. The multi-tab feature is also gone!

Thanks in advance!

[AlvaroParker]

Checkout this draft PR #31361

[ruutters]

Can wait to see MAx Mode enabled on the old-way panel! hahaha, hope it come out soon! tks @AlvaroParker

[andoni-hazaiah]

Thank you so much, @AlvaroParker! At last, I am able to resume my research. Your work has proved so much valuable to me.

I've built Zed editor from source based on your PR and it works flawlessly! Thanks again for your huge support!

[pricci1]

It is live now on 0.189.0. Thanks Alvaro!

[Trioblack]

They really killed a great differentiator. That was a bad move from Zed.

[ruutters]

That was just strange how they ripped off this great feature. I happy we're not the only one and the community is strong to support us!

[clauses3]

edits.webm
Saw discussion of this on discord. How's this UI flow for an edit feature?

• ctrl-s to save the edit without triggering a reload (new)
• alt-enter to insert a new line
• enter to regeneration from the current position