Welcome to Zed, a code editor built using web technologies, designed to rethink some of the assumptions that underly most editors today. Some of the editor's core features are the features it does not have:
What you get instead is a bare bones, simple yet powerful editor that focuses on what matters most: making you as productive at editing code and text as possible. To enable this, Zed has:
You can install Zed via the Chrome Web Store, or by cloning the github repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/zedapp/zed.git
$ cd zed
$ git submodule update --init
Then, in (a recent version of) Chrome, go to the "three-lined" menu > Tools >
Extensions and click the "Load unpacked extension..." button, navigate to the
app
directory inside the Zed repository checkout. Zed should now run!
To build locally:
$ git clone https://github.com/zedapp/zed.git
$ cd zed
$ git submodule update --init
After this you can either build the version for your platform of choice:
$ make apps-mac
$ make apps-win
$ make apps-linux32
or
$ make apps-linux64
The builds end up in nw/build
and the gzipped versions in release
.
Inspiration for Zed comes from: