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?

[Markiewic]

To be fair, in IntelliJ you can press Tab instead of Enter, and then the word will be replaced, not inserted.

[d8vjork]

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

Late off-topic reply: That video format is .mov so I'm I guess he was using the Cmd + Shift + 5 in MacOS (similar to Win + Alt + R but without screen cut options)

[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.

[theherk]

@Ornataweaver The most simple way is ⌘ ⇧ M, but you can also run the command "Diagnostics: Deploy" or click on the ⊗ in the lower left.

[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!

[dremnik]

Small thing but absolutely love the command additions to Vim mode (https://zed.dev/docs/vim#language-server)

The extra text objects and navigation helpers are so sick and I wish I knew about these sooner when using Zed

[dremnik]

I gotta say by the way, I've given some feedback on how the inline assistant isn't quite as good as Cursor (which is still true, and imo this is the feature which is lacking the most in Zed--apart from vim support for the tag stack), but the chat panel is great. Love the ability to move between like another editor panel with vim and easily paste segments, functions, etc.

Keep it up guys, love this shit

[dremnik]

Great stuff on the new git features guys, massive improvement to have diff staging in Zed!

[Kiwow]

I've started working on my bachelor thesis, and as part of the initial discovery, I'm generating a whole lot of matplotlib plots. Because of my skill issues working with the library, every figure I'm generating is also getting shown in the REPL in addition to getting saved to disk.

But even with 100+ somewhat-large PNGs rendered in the buffer as part of the REPL output, Zed is running super well, even letting me scroll through the massive output as smoothly as if it were a 100 line plaintext file.

I'm not sure if this is kudos to people working on the REPL, gpui or a little bit of everyone, but either way, it's been a real pleasure working with Python in the REPL, so thank you, Zed team ❤

It's also awesome how venv is detected automatically and just works™.

[rlovell3]

Zed is Zed, Baby! Better get your Zed. Don't Zed on me. The Grateful Zed. Zed Zeppelin.

Where am I? Am I high? I must be high on Zed.

As a former C++ and C developer, my switch to Rust was with smiles after the first few days, and I've never looked back. One of the things that always irritated me was that I was using VS Code on my Linux development platform. You have no idea how much I dislike Windoze (which owns VS Code for those of you who don't know).

I saw a Youtube video by a developer I occasionally watch, and he didn't have much nice to say about Zed. But still, its Rust. So I downloaded it, installed it my own special way, cranked it up, mapped my ollama and Claude setup to it, and OMG! I can't believe how good this thing works. I thought I'd tinker around with it, and then probably forget about it, but it immediately became my Go-To editor. Yeah, I still use Vim, but I kinda like the modern comforts of an IDE. Zed seems to make for an easy crossover between pure Vim and pure graphical IDE. I love it. I actually love it. And hey, I'm a developer. Do you know how unusual it is for a developer to love anything to do with a development environment! (That was a statement, not a question). You guys and gals have done an amazing thing with this toolbox, and I am totally blown away. Keep up the amazing work.

[fuzenco]

Welcome. It’s awesome to have you onboard.

[ishanray]

Well built, quality software is becoming a bit of a lost art.

No wonder software like Slack and VS Code are popular. Maybe the two slowest, clunkiest software that I've used in my life.

I grew up in an era where software quality was actually much much higher. For example, Photoshop 3.1 was 100 times faster than the Photoshop we have today. Winamp was a media player which was maybe 1000 times faster than any media player in existence today. And Sublime Text was one of the fastest editors which popularized command palettes and made text editing feel really set for the GUI era.

I hadn't felt that level of satisfaction with a product for a very long time.

Zed for the first time is giving me that feeling again and I'm so happy that the team is building a piece of software which is polished and extremely performant.

[seantiz]

I already emailed but I just wanted to say thank you again for bringing in Git control panel to Zed. Zed has become everyday use for me, it's in that sweetspot between the two polarities of VSCode on one end and Neovim on the other.

[btebbutt]

There are three absolute game changers for me that zed nail .

Context transparency. I love that I am shown exactly what is being fed to the model and given an approximate token count. I know the /search tab may be coming soon and I hope this will maintain the context transparency rather than hiding it from users.

Repl. The ability to make a .py file feel so similar to a .ipynb is kudos to you and something so important for data scientists, especially as it allows the llm to apply changes seamlessly. (If you haven't already, go ask cursor to edit a .ipynb file and crash) Notebooks as scripts also do not work well in vs code / forks with respect to async code , which is something the Zed REPL has no issues with in my experience. Cannot stress enough how brilliant the repl is.

I really love the segregation of the assistant panel vs in line assistant. It allows me to have rich, precise context that I can alter and refine until I am happy with to prepare changes for the inline assistant without cluttering up the context with

"Please apply this to file x" .

I hope this separation of concerns will continue as you implement "more agentic" features, because the current ability of Zed to not fill up the model context with garbage instructions that don't serve a purpose after application to the file is brilliant.

Amazing ide. 👏 🚀

[mbokil]

I like the speed of Zed. Theme overrides are awesome. Project switching is nice and simple. Find and replace across a project is powerful. Git integration is 🔥

[d8vjork]

The speed of the feature-growth on this project matches its speed, started using it 1 year ago and now is my main IDE. 🚀

[Testare]

I haven't even really used the AI features much yet, but the support for vim bindings/controls is pretty impressive for such a new project, and the level of control you have over different settings is really impressive without having to tangle with vimscript (and the autocomplete in the keybinds/settings is A+), and I love how the UI isn't full of distracting elements I have no need for.

[dglav]

I have been a nvim user for a year or two now, and I recently tried out Zed again. I am starting to love it for many reasons. You guys are doing great.

I also really appreciate the design choice to keep the number UI elements to a minimum, as this was one of my biggest peeves with vscode.

[theherk]

Agreed. I still love Neovim, especially in Neovide. But the simplicity and stability of Zed is really nice. So much works without much effort.

[konstantinzolotarev]

I've been using Zed since its early days, and I'm continually impressed by how it has evolved. With each passing day, I find myself migrating more and more of my daily development routine into this exceptional editor.

What keeps drawing me back to Zed is its impressive speed. In a world where development tools often become bloated and sluggish, Zed remains lightning-fast and responsive, making my coding sessions efficient and enjoyable.

The new agent panel is absolutely awesome! It has transformed how I interact with my codebase, providing intelligent assistance exactly when I need it. This feature alone has significantly improved my productivity and problem-solving capabilities.
Perhaps the most game-changing feature for me has been the Review panel. The ability to see all changes in one centralized view has revolutionized my workflow. It makes code reviews and tracking modifications so much more straightforward and intuitive. I can't imagine going back to working without this feature now.

A big thanks to all the developers and the community behind Zed! Your dedication to creating such a powerful, elegant tool is genuinely appreciated. The care and thoughtfulness put into each feature and update doesn't go unnoticed. You're building something truly special, and it's making a real difference in developers' lives like mine.

Looking forward to seeing how Zed continues to evolve and enhance my coding experience in the future!

[1925381584]

Sorry, I need to give some of the most authentic feedback, all of whom may not be compliments like above. What I lack most now is not the ai function, but the instant search and fuzzy matching. Perhaps for vscode users, zed has performed very well, but for emacs users, zed is still quite primitive. Thank you very much for bringing the next generation of editors, and hope that the team will focus on basic editing capabilities in the next step. But no matter how the next step of zed goes, I will respect the choice of the zed team.

[Aeolun]

I'm just going to say that I have really enjoyed using Zed for a long time now. But what I lacked was a way to pay you for the privilege, so I'm very happy to find that I can now pay for agentic editing, and finally give something back!

[torikki-tou]

Thank you for your work! I just read https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-tasks and was amazed by how well disigned this feature is. Keep it up!

[phromo]

I am also loving zed and the direction you are taking it, especially the latest agentive features. But also small gems like the minimap. I pay for Zed Pro to support you -- but do note that I really prefer if you stay very open and neutral -- I have API subscriptions to AI services elsewhere so the AI-access is not why I pay you :)