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Re:Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed by azatom on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:17AM (#48355839)
Is Zed the text editor that can't open a Windows (UTF-16 LE, UCS2 encoded) text file?
Re:Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed by azatom on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:35AM (#48370105)
No and sorry. I mixed that with lite-xl, tried they at same time and both had a red flag (lite-xl has official exe and can't open windows text file). I do not remember what was my problem with zed. Maybe just the autoformat (if i turn off format-on-save then I can not format at all only if I install a plugin.)
Re:Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed by arendjr on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:58AM (#48355679)
Zen is simply a fork of Zed for those who are happy to use an IDE free from AI, telemetry, and other cloud-based services. I use it as my daily driver and intend to maintain it so that I can also use it as the base for some non-developer tooling I want to create.

Only tested on Linux for now, though Zed's support for other platforms should be (mostly?) intact.