u/AdUnited1019

Some time recently, Zed changed this behavior. It used to work like every other editor and IDE I've used: You open a file (possibly outside the project directory) and it puts it in a new tab for you.

Now, however, it does something very different: The entire window becomes a sort of new project, with the only tab the newly-opened file, and your previous project gone.

Is this really by design? Is it controlled by a setting?