Zed Improved. Aiming to improve upon Zed and make a truly delightful code editor.
https://zed.dev
![]() ## Issue The agent may run very slowly on projects that contain many or large binary files not listed in `.gitignore`. ## Solution Temporarily rewrite `.git/info/exludes` to ignore: - Common binary files based on the extension - Files larger than 2 MB ## Benchmark I measure the time between sending an agent message in UI ("hitting Enter") and actually sending it to an LLM. Ideally, it should be instant. Numbers for a 7.7 GB Rust project with no .gitignore. Filter | Time ----------------------------------|----- No filter (= before this change) | 62 s Exclude common file types only | 1.46 s Exclude files >2MB only | 1.16 s Exclude both | 0.10 s ## Planned changes: - [x] Exclude common binary file types - [x] Exclude large files - [ ] Track files added by agent so we could delete them (we can't rely on git for that anymore) - [ ] Don't block on waiting for a checkpoint to complete until we really need it - [ ] Only `git add` files that are about to change Closes #ISSUE Release Notes: - Improved agent latency on repositories containing many files or large files |
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assets | ||
crates | ||
docs | ||
extensions | ||
legal | ||
nix | ||
script | ||
tooling | ||
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.cursorrules | ||
.git-blame-ignore-revs | ||
.gitattributes | ||
.gitignore | ||
.mailmap | ||
.prettierrc | ||
.rules | ||
.windsurfrules | ||
Cargo.lock | ||
Cargo.toml | ||
CLAUDE.md | ||
clippy.toml | ||
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | ||
compose.yml | ||
CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
Cross.toml | ||
debug.plist | ||
default.nix | ||
docker-compose.sql | ||
Dockerfile-collab | ||
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore | ||
Dockerfile-cross | ||
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore | ||
Dockerfile-distros | ||
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
LICENSE-AGPL | ||
LICENSE-APACHE | ||
LICENSE-GPL | ||
livekit.yaml | ||
Procfile | ||
Procfile.postgrest | ||
README.md | ||
renovate.json | ||
rust-toolchain.toml | ||
shell.nix | ||
typos.toml |
Zed
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:
- Windows (tracking issue)
- Web (tracking issue)
Developing Zed
- Building Zed for macOS
- Building Zed for Linux
- Building Zed for Windows
- Running Collaboration Locally
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, addpublish = 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 theaccepted
array inscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml
. - Is
cargo-about
unable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end ofscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml
, as specified in the cargo-about book.