alt Hacker NewsFunny how Zed's tagline is
Love your editor again
Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.
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Zed is fantastic for coding by hand. The multibuffer editor and 120fps resizing is orgasmic
I'm building Paneditor with that focus. My goal is to close the gap so that (competent) humans can work with code at levels of editing throughput usually reserved for users of LLMs.
ecode [0] is ridiculously fast -- makes Zed feel like molasses -- and quite customizable. It's still early in development and mostly just made by one guy (who is also developing the GUI framework used), so progress is slow and there are some rough edges, but it has all the important stuff and quite a few niceties too. Really cool project, reminds me of Sublime.
I like LLMs, I like Zed, but I turn off the AI features. I rather have Claude or Open Code in a container with only access to a mounted folder, or use a local model.
And Zed lets me do that while remaining fast and minimal.
As for (even more) minimal editors, perhaps just Gnome Edit? Or Kate?
The thing is, they have to monetize somehow. There's a setting to turn all AI features off with one toggle and you're back to an 'editor still being being developed and focusing on the experience of coding by hand'
Helix?
Vim? Emacs? Sublime Text?
neovim or eMacs are the best text editors as up today.
> But it's clear that Zed's focus is on AI integration because that's where the money's going
Do you really think Zed's focus on AI is just about money? You do realize software engineering is in the midst of a tectonic shift?
> seriously, where is the setting to have a different ui size vs ui font size
Search for font size in preferences.
You'll see a 'font size' under 'buffer' (editor), under 'UI Font', and under 'Agent Panel' to let you control font sizes in all of those places independently.
> Is there any editor still being being developed and focusing on the experience of coding by hand?
Zed lets you hand-edit too! It's fast and decent. vim, neovim, Emacs, Helix, and JetBrains products continue to do that well too. There are still more traditional IDEs/editors than pure AI ones.
You can also toggle AI features off in Zed from preferences if you want to.