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Can you fix the CLI on Windows? You broke it a few versions ago. 'zed --version' and all the other flags don't work. Maybe broken command parser or something, im not sure. Zed with zero flags still launches it. I particularly want to be able to pass it filenames for quick opening and --new and --wait. Used to work. Thanks!

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Zed support engineer here, that sounds like a bug!

I have `zed --version` working on my Windows machine:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> zed --version

Zed 1.0.0 5ec84a926ef83865afb92d2a3d1ca3b419572cf9 – \\?\C:\Users\mrg\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\Zed.exe

If you're up for it, we can pair next week to get a proper bug report filed

https://calendar.app.google/qPgW7q6upb3RqPjx5

I wasn't expecting that level of support, thanks for the offer!

You said it should work, so I did some poking around. Uninstalled it, reinstalled it. Still didn't work. The "About" in app said I was running 1.0.0+stable

Checked my environment paths and saw I had both

    C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed
    C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\bin

So I opened those paths in explorer, and there is indeed a zed.exe in both dirs. So I tried them explicitly:

    Me@DESKTOP-NN7TD9I ~
    $ "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\Zed.exe" --help
    
    Me@DESKTOP-NN7TD9I ~
    $ "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\bin\zed.exe" --help
    The Zed CLI binary.
    This CLI is a separate binary that invokes Zed.
    
    ...

They both launch Zed when double clicked, but only one works with CLI args.

Fix is easy then, I just deleted "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed" from my paths.

I don't know if I added that or Zed added that path when installing (maybe from an earlier ver?), but there you have it.

Glad to have "helped" here! :)

Offer still stands if you run into other bugs that aren't in our issue tracker.

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