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by vitro 245 days ago
One of the reasons why I'm not fully switching yet is a Zed's inability to update the currently open file with changes made elsewhere [1].

All the other editors I use are aware of outside changes, but not Zed. And I'm just not willing to close and reopen the file to get fresh contents. Eventually, I'll forget to do it and lose some work.

[1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15791
1 comments
ricardobeat 245 days ago
How do other editors handle this in your experience? I’m pretty sure VSCode behaves exactly the same, with the addition of a manual “merge” editor when you try to save, but never shows changes live for a modified file.

Changes to open files without any modifications in the buffer are always shown. Are you using any kind of containers or virtual fs that might be interfering?

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vitro 245 days ago
Other editors, at least, display a pop-up indicating that the file has changed on disk in the meantime and ask me if I want to reload the file or overwrite it with my current buffer, or do nothing (geany editor does that, for example). And it happens immediately as soon as I hover over the editor's window.

Interestingly, Zed displays the change right away for the first time, but any other edits are not picked up. I'm using Zed's installer, Zed updated to the latest version, no containers or virtual fs, my partitions are ext4.

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