Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed

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Zen is simply a fork of Zed for those who are happy to use an IDE free from AI, telemetry, and other cloud-based services. I use it as my daily driver and intend to maintain it so that I can also use it as the base for some non-developer tooling I want to create.

Only tested on Linux for now, though Zed's support for other platforms should be (mostly?) intact.

Is Zed the text editor that can't open a Windows (UTF-16 LE, UCS2 encoded) text file?

No and sorry. I mixed that with lite-xl, tried they at same time and both had a red flag (lite-xl has official exe and can't open windows text file). I do not remember what was my problem with zed. Maybe just the autoformat (if i turn off format-on-save then I can not format at all only if I install a plugin.)

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