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Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!

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as a 10+ year Sublime user, Zed is the best of the more "modern" GUI editors I've tried.

I haven't fully switched over to using it as my daily-driver because Zed's heavy reliance on GPU rendering means that it locks up every time I suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it.

0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940

1: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288

Was a heavy sublime user for many years, slowly migrated to vim (first sublime with vim keybindings) but now daily drive lazyvim and the defaults with that are very sane.

Quick install on any platform and just works. And obviously plenty of configuration that’s available to you but if you haven’t I’d give that a go.

Still on Sublime, and helix in terminal.

Tried zed, it's interesting but several things are missing including the ability to skip extensions auto-update... which imho is critical for security.

I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.

I also use Sublime heavily and then started with Zed for the AI assistance.

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