u/nfrmn

Zed Feedback

Hi there,

I want to share a piece of feedback regarding the Zed editor that is currently preventing me from using it as my primary editor.

I love absolutely everything about it, but there is one major blocker: when I run it from the command line to open a file or folder (e.g. zed ., it does not open in a new window but instead replaces the existing window.

I have found that doing this occasionally causes me to lose unsaved scratch files and other session data from the previous window.

This issue is disruptive enough that I have had to switch back to VS Code. Often during the day, I will open four or five different workspaces in my editor and tile them side by side to monitor different projects at the same time. It just seems like Zed isn't built for this right now.

Is there an existing setting that I have missed, or if not, please could we implement an option or something in the future, to change this behaviour?

Edit: Thank you all. This was the one thing keeping me on VSCode

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u/nfrmn — 1 day ago

"Preparing write..."

Just venting. Combined with the recent permissions bugs this hang is killing me!

I wish we had some more streaming in the terminal so I can clearly see when the connection has failed versus something taking a really long time to complete.

Looking for alternatives...

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u/nfrmn — 2 months ago