I'm extremely glad to see something like this. I've tried to use Zed so many times, and this might sound neurotic -- but there are just so many little theming things that make a difference to me.
For example, https://imgur.com/a/ia2GCgg -- top is VSCode, bottom is Zed. Both using Svelte, and using a similar theme.
- Angle brackets are a different color
- Capitalized built-in components are a different color
- Boolean props are a different color
- Brackets are colored differently than text.
The inspector is a game changer, clicking into these specific things in the preview they provide is super helpful.
Finally, I can reasonably get something truly high contrast and not just close to it as the current offerings are. This is a little thing, but Zed continues to keep getting so many things right that it has gone from “interesting” to “my preferred editor” after 15 years in vim. The git “follow mode” has been especially great transitioning into heavy usage of LLMs in development. Happy to see the team continues to just get more little things right.
Does Zed have "I work for corp where ie. only github copilot is allowed, I don't want free auto completions or anything that sends code to 3rd party" flag?
You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2
The theme builder is good and easy to use, and I only needed a few minutes to make my own.
Syntax coloring is almost there, but still lacking (I use C/C++)
Small visual adjustment like line height in the UI text is not configurable enough (only two settings)
Scrolling should have a smooth option, nothing prevents it, it should be super easy to add, I find it easier on the eyes when I move around code, especially on a 240Hz monitor.
The editing experience is good, quick launch, no crashes, responsive, not too memory hungry.
Ha.. thats a very cool way of adjusting. themes. I hoped for being able to adjust a lot of things around markdown edit and markdown preview though. My biggest problem with Zed right now. Themes are actually ok to me. Maybe thats on their todo though who knows.
Yeah unfortunately looks like the maintainer made their stuff private, but it still works, I may republish it if gets removed from the store it’s so good.
This is super cool - Started using Zed a couple weeks ago. Is there also something like a Theme gallery? Where one can look at Themes other people created? I would imagine not everyone has the inspiration to build their own "form scratch" but would still love to customize.
I'm extremely glad to see something like this. I've tried to use Zed so many times, and this might sound neurotic -- but there are just so many little theming things that make a difference to me.
For example, https://imgur.com/a/ia2GCgg -- top is VSCode, bottom is Zed. Both using Svelte, and using a similar theme.
- Angle brackets are a different color
- Capitalized built-in components are a different color
- Boolean props are a different color
- Brackets are colored differently than text.
The inspector is a game changer, clicking into these specific things in the preview they provide is super helpful.
>theming things
But those are syntax highlights. What does this have to do with theming?
I'm not a Zed user, but https://zed.dev/docs/reference/all-settings#colorize-bracket... surely you can configure those.
Finally, I can reasonably get something truly high contrast and not just close to it as the current offerings are. This is a little thing, but Zed continues to keep getting so many things right that it has gone from “interesting” to “my preferred editor” after 15 years in vim. The git “follow mode” has been especially great transitioning into heavy usage of LLMs in development. Happy to see the team continues to just get more little things right.
Does Zed have "I work for corp where ie. only github copilot is allowed, I don't want free auto completions or anything that sends code to 3rd party" flag?
Yes you can disable Zed AI and connect to Github Copilot through the LLM Providers UI
You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions.
https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction
You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2
Zed is "almost there" for me.
The theme builder is good and easy to use, and I only needed a few minutes to make my own.
Syntax coloring is almost there, but still lacking (I use C/C++) Small visual adjustment like line height in the UI text is not configurable enough (only two settings)
Scrolling should have a smooth option, nothing prevents it, it should be super easy to add, I find it easier on the eyes when I move around code, especially on a 240Hz monitor.
The editing experience is good, quick launch, no crashes, responsive, not too memory hungry.
Ha.. thats a very cool way of adjusting. themes. I hoped for being able to adjust a lot of things around markdown edit and markdown preview though. My biggest problem with Zed right now. Themes are actually ok to me. Maybe thats on their todo though who knows.
If you use Omarchy, the 3.8 update includes dynamic theming for Zed. It's very cool: https://github.com/APS6/omazed
This feels shallow, but one of the biggest things keeping me from using zed is the lack of a good default dark theme.
The defaults all feel very low contrast, gray on gray that makes the experience feel dull and off putting to me, even if the editor itself is great.
It's not just you and it's not just Zed. Dark themes tend to be low contrast gray on gray.
I usually look for a dark theme that looks good and then make a custom version with darker the background colors and brighter the foreground colors.
Maybe it's time for to start publishing high contrast dark themes instead of just fixing it for myself.
It should take less than a minute to install a nice, high contrast dark theme, if you just search for the theme inside the Extensions window in Zed.
But I understand your point, no reason for it not to come with a couple good high contrast dark themes.
Try this one, it’s my recent favourite and very polished: https://zed.dev/extensions/amp-theme
The repo for this theme is no longer available
> The page you are trying to reach either does not exist, has been removed or you are not authorized to view it.
Yeah unfortunately looks like the maintainer made their stuff private, but it still works, I may republish it if gets removed from the store it’s so good.
The repository link on that page does not work. Is there a preview?
You can see it on vscode themes https://vscodethemes.com/e/hrose.amp-theme/amp-dark
This is super cool - Started using Zed a couple weeks ago. Is there also something like a Theme gallery? Where one can look at Themes other people created? I would imagine not everyone has the inspiration to build their own "form scratch" but would still love to customize.