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Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim


After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.

The combination of configuring the base editor and installing a set of plugins (and making sure that they play nice with each other) isn't really something that I would like to spend my time on, going forward. Neovide though, does not support multiple windows, which is integral to my workflow and hence requires me to implement workarounds, which actually broke last week after I ran:PackerUpdate. For instance, it's pretty easy to type in questions in the panel window and then paste text from your open file buffers into it to give the LLM more context.

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