[seafoamteal]

I generally use Neovim, but Zed was the first code editor that made me go, "Wow, I can see myself actually using this." My only gripe is the "Sign In" button at the top that I can't seem to remove.

But apropos TFA, it's nice to see that telemetry is opt-in, not opt-out.

[pimeys]

Yeah. I've been using vim since the 90's. A bit of emacs here and there, and more recently some helix too. Zed was the first GUI editor that took me over. I've always hated VSCode, but Zed is so fast and its UI just clicks on me that I've been using it as my main editor for months now.

Subscribed to their paid plan just to keep the lights on and hoping it will get even better in the future.

[terminalbraid]

> that I can't seem to remove

It's open source, builds extremely well out of the box, and the UI is declarative.

[charcircuit]

Sorry if this is obvious, but have you tried signing in?

[aaravchen]

Not OP, but the Sign In button is for GitHub on Zed. Which conflicts with GitHub sign in for any of the other AI agents, so you have to pick only one (the others will time out and do nothing after the first). On work machines I use the corporate Copilot login, so I just have a permanent Sign In button in the upper right that doesn't function and can't be hidden.

Also I don't want to pay with my private data from some of my systems. So I don't ever want to sign in on those systems and just have a useless button sitting there.

[seafoamteal]

I had a reply typed out to the parent but decided I didn't want to take the bait, so thank you for putting my concern (your second point) into words.

[aaravchen]

Everyone knows that when a company pinky promises they won't collect your data and they'll keep things private, it means absolutely nothing. Unless it's impossible for them to collect your data even if they wanted to, all promises, especially from start ups, are worth less than the non-existent paper they're printed on.