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Properly load environment variables from the login shell (#31799)
Fixes #11647
Fixes #13888
Fixes #18771
Fixes #19779
Fixes #22437
Fixes #23649
Fixes #24200
Fixes #27601

Zed’s current method of loading environment variables from the login
shell has two issues:
1. Some shells—​fish in particular—​​write specific escape characters to
`stdout` right before they exit. When this happens, the tail end of the
last environment variable printed by `/usr/bin/env` becomes corrupted.
2. If a multi-line value contains an equals sign, that line is
mis-parsed as a separate name-value pair.

This PR addresses those problems by:
1. Redirecting the shell command's `stdout` directly to a temporary
file, eliminating any side effects caused by the shell itself.
2. Replacing `/usr/bin/env` with `sh -c 'export -p'`, which removes
ambiguity when handling multi-line values.

Additional changes:
- Correctly set the arguments used to launch a login shell under `csh`
or `tcsh`.
- Deduplicate code by sharing the implementation that loads environment
variables on first run with the logic that reloads them for a project.



Release Notes:

- N/A
2025-06-03 19:16:26 -06:00
.cargo build: Remove -all_load linker argument on macOS (#30656) 2025-05-17 07:20:23 +02:00
.cloudflare docs: Document context servers (#21170) 2024-11-25 11:05:14 -05:00
.config workspace-hack: remove openssl from remote_server (#27990) 2025-04-03 00:49:07 +00:00
.github ci: Improve Danger and ci.yml explicitness (#31979) 2025-06-03 10:54:04 -04:00
.zed Update debug.json in Zed repo to run the build on session startup (#31707) 2025-05-29 21:29:18 +02:00
assets Change default formatter settings for LaTeX (#28727) 2025-06-03 19:51:30 +00:00
crates Properly load environment variables from the login shell (#31799) 2025-06-03 19:16:26 -06:00
docs docs: Document debugger.dock setting (#32038) 2025-06-03 23:38:41 +00:00
extensions toml: Bump to v0.1.4 (#31272) 2025-05-23 12:18:24 +00:00
legal Legal Terms: May 6th 2025 update (#30151) 2025-05-07 17:14:02 +00:00
nix nix: Make zeditor symlink in package output (#31354) 2025-05-26 08:59:52 -07:00
script ci: Improve Danger and ci.yml explicitness (#31979) 2025-06-03 10:54:04 -04:00
tooling Disallow running Zed with root privileges (#31331) 2025-05-30 21:22:52 +00:00
.clinerules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.cursorrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add PR 15352 to .git-blame-ignore-revs (#30870) 2025-05-17 11:35:58 +00:00
.gitattributes Prevent GitHub from displaying comments within JSON files as errors (#7043) 2024-01-29 23:11:25 -05:00
.gitignore Update nixpkgs, add direnv to gitignore (#30292) 2025-05-13 01:45:22 -07:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap (#30874) 2025-05-17 12:34:42 +00:00
.prettierrc ci: Add check for formatting default.json (#30034) 2025-05-06 18:55:26 +00:00
.rules Add missing "no" in .rules (#30748) 2025-05-17 06:31:56 +00:00
.windsurfrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
Cargo.lock Properly load environment variables from the login shell (#31799) 2025-06-03 19:16:26 -06:00
Cargo.toml Add support for OpenRouter as a language model provider (#29496) 2025-06-03 15:59:46 +00:00
CLAUDE.md Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
clippy.toml Restructure agent context (#29233) 2025-04-24 21:29:33 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Remove community content from docs and point to zed.dev (#19895) 2024-10-29 09:44:58 -04:00
compose.yml Add Postgrest to Docker Compose (#16498) 2024-08-19 20:50:45 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Allow icon themes to provide their own file associations (#24926) 2025-02-15 00:35:13 +00:00
Cross.toml Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
debug.plist WIP 2023-12-14 09:25:14 -07:00
default.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
docker-compose.sql collab: Setup database for LLM service (#15882) 2024-08-06 17:18:08 -04:00
Dockerfile-collab chore: Bump Rust to 1.87 (#30739) 2025-05-15 22:28:52 +00:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore ci: Move collab to Dockerfile-collab (#18515) 2024-09-30 16:14:26 -04:00
Dockerfile-cross Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-distros Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
flake.lock nix: Refactor gh-actions and re-enable nightly builds (#31489) 2025-05-27 11:34:15 -07:00
flake.nix nix: Add job names and garnix substitutor (#31625) 2025-05-28 13:32:12 -07:00
LICENSE-AGPL Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL Licenses: change license fields in Cargo.toml to AGPL-3.0-or-later. (#5535) 2024-01-27 13:51:16 +01:00
livekit.yaml Add LiveKit server to Docker Compose (#7907) 2024-02-16 10:49:48 -05:00
Procfile Refactor: Restructure collab main function to prepare for new subcommand: serve llm (#15824) 2024-08-05 12:07:38 -07:00
Procfile.postgrest Fix llm queries (#16006) 2024-08-08 17:21:38 -07:00
README.md Remove Repology badge from README (#30857) 2025-05-17 07:01:46 +00:00
renovate.json renovate: Require dependency dashboard approval for updates (#29065) 2025-04-18 18:44:30 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml extension: Update to wasm32-wasip2 target (#30953) 2025-05-26 16:06:38 +02:00
shell.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
typos.toml editor: Handle more completion sort cases (#30690) 2025-05-14 18:49:39 +05:30

Zed

CI

Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.


Installation

On macOS and Linux you can download Zed directly or install Zed via your local package manager.

Other platforms are not yet available:

Developing Zed

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.

Also... we're hiring! Check out our jobs page for open roles.

Licensing

License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.

We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:

  • Is it showing a no license specified error for a crate you've created? If so, add publish = false under [package] in your crate's Cargo.toml.
  • Is the error failed to satisfy license requirements for a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to the accepted array in script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml.
  • Is cargo-about unable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end of script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.