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Comment by typpilol | Hacker News Reader

How can people justify using editors like this when they are missing basic features?

Like what's the benefit?

That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Zed is still fairly new and although it's not perfect, they're doing quite a good job so far.

I would be using Zed full time if Sublime Text wasn't already perfect for me.

Zed is pretty awesome on macOS and Linux, but I tried the Windows version tonight and things that work great on the other OSes aren't working on Windows. I've noticed:

- Issues with various keybinds not working as expected, e.g. Ctrl+S to save works on my Linux machines but not Windows if Vim Mode is enabled

- Issues with LSPs/diagnostics not working on Windows the same way they work on macOS/Linux

- The terminal holds a lot of assumptions about how the system works that don't hold true on Windows, e.g. "the user has one shell they use for all things" or "setting environment variables in the OS is easy"

I love Zed on my work issued macbook and use it full time, but the Windows version still needs some work.

> setting environment variables in the OS is easy

Windows has a GUI, how can it not be easy. /s

It isn't as easy as on Linux, but you press Windows, type env, click edit Variables then select User vs. System, the you press add. That's not too complicated.

That sets them globally, right? I need different variables and values in different contexts. e.g. in VSC I can set variables per-directory in settings.json files.

… And then you completely close all instances of the app that you need to see the changed environment variable, including any integrated terminal processes within that app. And then you relaunch all instances of that app and recover whatever workflow you were currently in the middle of.

Like, it’s not great.

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