Zed Code Editor
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Offline-capable, feature rich, extensible code editor designed for Chrome
Zed is a fully offline-capable, Chrome-based text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, on Github, or remotely on any server. It has all the code editor features you'd expect and more:
* Syntax highlighting for many programming languages (e.g. C, Clojure, CoffeeScript, C#, CSS, Dart, Erlang, Go, Haml, Haskell, HTML, ini files, Java, JavaScript, JSON, LogiQL, Lua, Markdown, Nix, PHP, Plist, Protobufs, Python, Ruby, Shell, XML)
* Code completion: symbols and (customizable) snippets
* Built-in linting for some languages with inline markers (JavaScript, CoffeeScript, JSON, Lua, CSS)
* Multiple cursors
* Split-view editing
Why another editor?
Zed was not designed to be an X clone (although it borrows ideas from many). It has opinionated ideas on how to make you more productive editing code. Specifically:
1. Zed tries to reduce cognitive load while editing code by simplifying as much as possible:
* Zed has no tabs and no concept of open files. You navigate between files either using the goto UI (Command-E/Ctrl-E) or file tree (Command-T/Ctrl-T). Switching between recent file is easy because recently opened files appear at the top.
* Zed has as little window chrome as reasonably possible: editors take up the full window space, minus a small edit bar along the bottom indicating what file is open.
* Zed unifies file navigation and file creation in its goto UI: you can either navigate to an existing file, or to a non existing file, in which case it will create the file including its parent directories (if necessary). As Zed will create any directories as required, you can just treat the path as a namespace.
* Zed has first-class support for editing files on any Internet-connected server, so you no longer have to switch to nano or vi when editing files remotely, and swap in all the associated keybindings into your brain.
* Zed persists edit state between sessions: window size and location, recent commands, split view state, cursor and selections and even undo history are persisted between sessions in a .zedstate file stored in the project directory. This gives you peace of mind: not working on a project right now? Just close the window. Don’t worry.
* Zed is built 100% using web technologies (HTML, JavaScript and pure CSS). Because it is open source (MIT licensed), you can inspect the DOM and change the code. Alternatively, you can write extensions (create new language modes, custom commands, key bindings, themes etc.) from within the editor without having to touch the Zed codebase at all.
For more information on how to use Zed's various features, check out the built-in Manual project.
Find more info and the latest news check out http://zedapp.org
Latest reviews
- Nolan Badger STUDENT
- r.i.p. Chrome apps. this was so good
- bahrta sai
- As far as I'm concerned this is a dead project. There doesn't seem to be tutorials available anywhere. and the linked website is suspended. Steer clear of this & find ""text, "caret", or "super neutron drive".
- Ning Cao
- good!
- Michael Poe
- I have an HP Chromebook 14 (Falco) and when I try to open this app it hard resets the machine. Never experienced this with anything else on a chromebook before.
- Andrew Davis
- Love this. So easy to use on my chromebook and Google Drive (once you are used to using their command interface) The auto preview is snappy and accurate. My new favorite coding tool. Would give an extra star if they had a more dedicated GUI for the experience. But its great how it is now. Can't complain.
- Victor Martins Onuoha
- It's great
- Paddy MacMahon
- I'm afraid it just doesn't work as advertised - it will not open Dropbox folders at all. It simply hangs on the 'Authenticating' stage, despite Dropbox recognising it as a connected app. I haven't even had a chance to check it out as a text editor!
- Isaac Thompson
- Not supported any more.
- Chilufya Mukuka
- its the best looking code editing tool ever
- Jennifer Resnick
- wish you could choose the keys for ur shortcuts becouse my period key doesnt work so i cant run anything
- Luca Wehrstedt
- Can't open files on Google Drive!
- Nathaniel Collins
- Could use some better graphics but other than that it is great
- Samantha Overcash
- My only complaint is that I cannot run the code. Any help?
- Frank Lafortune (Faux Scout)
- This is excellent for my needs. I code off a chromebook but my real computer is an arch linux in the cloud. I installed the Zed daemon on my box and tah-daH! It feels like i'm editing code right off my chromebook. This setup combined with Mosh makes my coding life wonderfull.
- Ivan Filgueiras
- This is a fantastic piece of software. Incredibly powerful! And this is from an Emacs user. Congratulations!
- Brendan Charles
- I like it but how do you switch it to HTML if i input any code in html it wont work.
- Anonymous
- For someone trying to learn computer science on a Chromebook, this is the best there is. I would appreciate the ability to integrate this with Google Drive, however.
- 高执
- edit a file, then close it. But app didn't remind me when i closed a file.
- david goldstein
- Great Aplication! Color coded and ready to open up in new tab, this is an amazing programing softwere to help you ge going on how to program! :)
- zhijia yuan
- I still want the vim keybindings, 'cus I am so used to it
- zhang roley
- the best editor in chromebook
- Irek Aminov
- works nice so far!
- Griff Hagen
- Amazing, Zed has always been great to me in my programming endeavors.
- Sarah Fung
- Nice cloud editor for Dropbox that works. Finally, I can decently edit web projects on my Dropbox via Chromebook.
- Kesus Kim
- This is I think really the most awesome Editor if only many users are using this :) anyway I'll use this the great.
- Nicholas Johnson
- I really want to use it as it looks pretty cool, but there's no proper touchscreen support. I can't drag my code around.
- Maebh Thomas
- its good but cant run my php program
- Anonymous
- Zed finds the perfect balance of features and usability. The only thing I would change is to refresh the file system monitor more often.
- Anonymous
- I've been using this off and on for a while now, though recently I haven't bothered to use anything else but Zed. Try it and see if Zed will give you a broader perspective on how you want/like to get work done.
- Ali Gangji
- Remote editing does not work, which makes it unusable for me
- Anonymous
- This is swell. With Vim up over a million lines of code, Emacs being its own userland, ST development dead and unresponsive, and Atom growing into the glitchiest pile of V8-based crud I've ever tried to use... having a simple, very smooth web-focused editor with some basic IDE-like functions is really fantastic. Thanks for all your work on this.
- Yosuke SUNAGAWA
- This is great editor I've been looking for!!
- Ethan Leavins
- Best alternative to Notepad++, but also unique in its own way with an awesome UI.
- Sheryl Hohman
- Editor is real nice. However, for javascript, I would love to have a preview Console instead of Preview pane.. That's what I'm really looking for: an all in one JS editor with integrated console for viewing and testing JS files.
- Brett Ellingson
- Easily the best text editor for Chrome, and does very well against the standard competition too (Notepad++, Atom, Emacs/Vim).
- Nathan M
- The only thing I would ask is to add support for jQuery. IT constantly tells me correct syntax is wrong, because it reads it as a javascript file instead.
- athmane chekor
- sublime just would suggest more help in the monitor.
- Vahe Araqelyan
- Sublime Text 3,Notepad++ AND Zed Code Editor super!!!
- Tim Sneller
- I REALLY don't like the seperate window. I wanted an editor as a separate tab WITHIN Chrome.
- Ned Nguyen
- This is the best editor I've seen so far (I've tried notepad++, sublime text, atom)
- Paul Marston
- this thing sucks never get it
- Trung Huỳnh
- Working with tabs, please!
- Sean Fern
- Enjoying it. Thanks!
- Nick H
- Twice now, it's wiped some files and left them full of weird ½ï¿½ï¿½ï symbols. All the lost hours of work. $#!%
- Malte
- Awsome Autocomplete for JS. Have never seen something like this before.. Is it possible to make this autocompletion work on other editors as well? Like Atom? Back to Zed: Its a bit slow and I do not like the missing of tabs, at least on bigger projects with many, many files. The Documentation could be better, especially how to write snippets. And the app was not that stable, I had to restart it a few times. I guess I will give it a try again, if I have a small project. But at the moment it is not usefull for me. But please think about the autocompletion for other editors, thats so great.
- Brett Ellingson
- Easily the best editor on Chrome/ChromeOS. It's really the only one I can stand to do actual work in.
- Leon Niceday
- Seems a bit better than Caret for me, because has nicer to navigate file manager, and also offers Preview for .md files. The only minus seems to be the lack of New Tab when creating/opening a new file, so that not to close the previously open
- Anonymous
- Menu and File-tree font is too small to be usable on an 11" Chromebook. Very poor performance for an ACE implementation. I work off-line from a USB-thumb-drive, and compared to Caret and Caret-T, Zed for some reason shows constant file thrashing on my thumb drive, even when I'm not typing?
- Anonymous
- Best code editor for chrome os, well done for making it open source as well
- Aliaksandr Litskevich
- Great app! Using it everyday