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The Creators of the Atom Code Editor Open-Source Zed, Their New Rust-Based High-Performance Editor (www.infoq.com)

submitted 9 months ago by LinearArray to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried it briefly. It certainly is a lot snappier than Atom ever was, I'll give it that. Seemed to be pretty good with Python, but when I opened some C++ source, it went around reformatting my indentation and replaces tabs with spaces. I will have to see if there is a way to disable all that, as I found it obnoxious.

[–] QuadriLiteral 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I wrote an IDE and detected tabs I'd just have it delete the codebase

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It was more than just tab conversion. For example, it decided on its own that:

if(...) {
    ...
}
else {
    ...
}

would look better like:

if(...) {
    ...
} else {
    ...
}

I mean I guess I could live with that, but really? I imagine there's some config where you can disable all this, but it just doesn't seem worth some giant git commit every time I touch a file with the editor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Ah I think I found it. I need to go:

{
    "format_on_save": "off"
}

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

My guess is that it has that default because they use Rust. Everyone uses rustfmt so everything looks the same and if you always format before a commit you never get massive diffs.

Most rust projects I've seen even have a ci job to check the formatting with rustfmt.