Self-Review Checklist:
- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [ ] ~~Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments~~
- [x] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
- [ ] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [ ] ~~Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable~~
Release Notes:
- Added shell completions generation for CLI with `zed --completions
<SHELL>`
Co-authored-by: silvanshade <silvanshade@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Yara 🏳️⚧️ <git@yara.blue>
## Summary
Fixes the missing Windows icon and version resource metadata for the
executable installed as `bin\zed.exe`.
On Windows, the bundling process builds `cli.exe` and installs it as
`bin\zed.exe`. The root `Zed.exe` already embeds the Zed Windows icon
and version metadata through `crates/zed/build.rs`, but the CLI
executable did not embed equivalent Windows resources.
As a result, Windows integrations that discover or display Zed through
`bin\zed.exe` may show a missing/default application icon.
This change adds Windows resource embedding to the `cli` crate and uses
the same release-channel icon selection as the main Zed executable.
Fixes#51154
## Testing
- Built the Windows CLI executable:
```powershell
cargo build --release --package cli --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
--locked --offline
```
- Verified `target\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\release\cli.exe` contains:
- `FileDescription = Zed`
- `ProductName = Zed`
- Verified the executable displays the Zed icon in Windows Explorer.
- Confirmed the Windows bundling script installs `cli.exe` as
`bin\zed.exe`.
- Started a full Windows bundle build and confirmed it passed license
generation and progressed into executable builds. The local full bundle
build could not be completed because the machine is missing the VS
Spectre-mitigated C++ libraries.
## Release Notes
- N/A
## Notes
This change is limited to Windows executable resource metadata for the
CLI binary. It does not change Zed runtime behavior.
---------
Co-authored-by: John Tur <john-tur@outlook.com>
This PR adds the `cli_default_open_behavior` setting and a first-run TUI
prompt
that appears when `zed <path>` is invoked without flags while existing
windows are
open and the setting hasn't been configured yet.
## What it does
### Setting and prompt
- Adds a new `cli_default_open_behavior` workspace setting with two
values:
`existing_window` (default) and `new_window`.
- When the user runs `zed <path>` for the first time with existing Zed
windows
open, a `dialoguer::Select` prompt in the CLI asks them to choose their
preferred behavior. The choice is persisted to `settings.json`.
- The prompt is skipped when:
- An explicit flag (`-n`, `-e`, `-a`) is given
- No existing Zed windows are open
- The setting is already configured in `settings.json`
- The paths being opened are already contained in an existing workspace
### IPC transport abstraction
- Introduces a `CliResponseSink` trait in the `cli` crate that abstracts
`IpcSender<CliResponse>`, with an implementation for the real IPC
sender.
- Replaces `IpcSender<CliResponse>` with `Box<dyn CliResponseSink>` /
`&dyn CliResponseSink` across all signatures in `open_listener.rs`:
`OpenRequestKind::CliConnection`, `handle_cli_connection`,
`maybe_prompt_open_behavior`, `open_workspaces`, `open_local_workspace`.
- Extracts the inline CLI response loop from `main.rs` into a testable
`cli::run_cli_response_loop` function.
- Switches the request channel from bounded `mpsc::channel(16)` to
`mpsc::unbounded()`, eliminating `smol::block_on` in the bridge thread.
### End-to-end tests
Seven new tests exercise both the CLI-side response loop and the
Zed-side
handler connected through in-memory channels, using `allow_parking()` so
the
real `cli::run_cli_response_loop` runs on an OS thread while the GPUI
executor
drives the Zed handler:
- No flags, no windows → no prompt, opens new window
- No flags, existing windows, user picks "existing window" → prompt,
setting persisted
- No flags, existing windows, user picks "new window" → prompt, setting
persisted
- Setting already configured → no prompt
- Paths already in existing workspace → no prompt
- Explicit `-e` flag → no prompt
- Explicit `-n` flag → no prompt
Existing tests that previously used `ipc::channel()` now use a
`DiscardResponseSink`, removing OS-level IPC from all tests.
Release Notes:
- Added a first-run prompt when using `zed <path>` to choose between
opening
in an existing window or a new window. The choice is saved to settings
and
can be changed later via the `cli_default_open_behavior` setting.
---------
Co-authored-by: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>
This branch:
1. teaches `--diff `command line option to to recurse into folders if
provided.
2. Adds a `MultiDiffView` that shows _all_ changed files in a single,
scrollable view.
This is necessary to provide a smooth user experience for `jj` and Zed
users who wish to use Zed as their jj difftool.
I'm not fully sure how this change interacts with
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/44936, or what plans y'all
have in mind.
Here's a screenshot of the resulting behavior:
<img width="1090" height="950" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-17 at 9 10 52 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8efd09b4-974f-4059-9f94-539c484c6d4a"
/>
I setup zed to handle jj diffs by adding the following to my jj config:
```toml
[aliases]
zdiff = ["diff", "--tool", "zed"]
[merge-tools.zed]
program = "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/cli"
# omit diff-invocation-mode to keep the default (JJ passes two dirs)
diff-args = [
"--zed", "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/zed",
"--wait",
"--new",
"--diff",
"$left",
"$right",
]
```
Release Notes:
- `--diff`, if provided with folders instead of files, will recurse into
those directories.
- Added a `MultiDiffView`, which will show all changed files within a
single, scrollable view.
**AI Disclosure**: Pretty much all of this code was written using Codex
with GPT-5.1-Codex. I edited by hand and tested this.
---------
Co-authored-by: Lukas Wirth <lukas@zed.dev>
Changes are made to `parse_path_with_position`:
we try to get the canonical, existing parts of
a path, then append the non-existing parts.
Closes#4441
Release Notes:
- Added the possibility to open a non-existing path using `zed` CLI
```
zed path/to/non/existing/file.txt
```
Co-authored-by: Syed Sadiq Ali <sadiqonemail@gmail.com>
We only use it a handful of times and the default amount of threads
(logical cpu core number) its spawns is overkill for this. This also
gives the threads names oppose to being labeled `<unknown>`
Release Notes:
- N/A *or* Added/Fixed/Improved ...
We've been considering removing workspace-hack for a couple reasons:
- Lukas ran into a situation where its build script seemed to be causing
spurious rebuilds. This seems more likely to be a cargo bug than an
issue with workspace-hack itself (given that it has an empty build
script), but we don't necessarily want to take the time to hunt that
down right now.
- Marshall mentioned hakari interacts poorly with automated crate
updates (in our case provided by rennovate) because you'd need to have
`cargo hakari generate && cargo hakari manage-deps` after their changes
and we prefer to not have actions that make commits.
Currently removing workspace-hack causes our workspace to grow from
~1700 to ~2000 crates being built (depending on platform), which is
mainly a problem when you're building the whole workspace or running
tests across the the normal and remote binaries (which is where
feature-unification nets us the most sharing). It doesn't impact
incremental times noticeably when you're just iterating on `-p zed`, and
we'll hopefully get these savings back in the future when
rust-lang/cargo#14774 (which re-implements the functionality of hakari)
is finished.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Closes#34393
Currently, we’re using `zed.exe --askpass` kind of like an `nc`
substitute, it prints out the SSH password to stdout with something like
`println!("user-pwd")`. `ssh.exe` then reads the password from stdout so
it can establish the connection.
The problem is that in release builds we set `subsystem=windows` to
avoid Windows spawning a black console window by default. The side
effect is that `zed.exe` no longer has a stdout, so `ssh.exe` can’t read
the password.
Through testing, I confirmed that neither allocating a new console for
`zed.exe` nor attaching it to the parent process’s stdout resolves the
issue. As a result, this PR updates the implementation to use `cli.exe
--askpass` instead.
TODO:
- [ ] Check that the `cli` path is correct on macOS
- [ ] Check that the `cli` path is correct on Linux
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Piotr Osiewicz <24362066+osiewicz@users.noreply.github.com>
This adds a "workspace-hack" crate, see
[mozilla's](https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/3a265fdc9f33e5946f0ca0a04af73acd7e6d1a39/build/workspace-hack/Cargo.toml#l7)
for a concise explanation of why this is useful. For us in practice this
means that if I were to run all the tests (`cargo nextest r
--workspace`) and then `cargo r`, all the deps from the previous cargo
command will be reused. Before this PR it would rebuild many deps due to
resolving different sets of features for them. For me this frequently
caused long rebuilds when things "should" already be cached.
To avoid manually maintaining our workspace-hack crate, we will use
[cargo hakari](https://docs.rs/cargo-hakari) to update the build files
when there's a necessary change. I've added a step to CI that checks
whether the workspace-hack crate is up to date, and instructs you to
re-run `script/update-workspace-hack` when it fails.
Finally, to make sure that people can still depend on crates in our
workspace without pulling in all the workspace deps, we use a `[patch]`
section following [hakari's
instructions](https://docs.rs/cargo-hakari/0.9.36/cargo_hakari/patch_directive/index.html)
One possible followup task would be making guppy use our
`rust-toolchain.toml` instead of having to duplicate that list in its
config, I opened an issue for that upstream: guppy-rs/guppy#481.
TODO:
- [x] Fix the extension test failure
- [x] Ensure the dev dependencies aren't being unified by Hakari into
the main dependencies
- [x] Ensure that the remote-server binary continues to not depend on
LibSSL
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Mikayla <mikayla@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikayla.c.maki@gmail.com>
This PR contains the following updates:
| Package | Type | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ipc-channel](https://redirect.github.com/servo/ipc-channel) |
dependencies | minor | `0.18` -> `0.19` |
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Closes#14306
This looks at what #16660 did and install.sh script as a base for the
uninstall.sh script. The script is bundled with the cli by default
unless the cli/no-bundled-uninstall feature is selected which is done,
so package managers could build zed without bundling a useless feature
and increasing binary size.
I don't have capabilities to test this right now, so any help with that
is appreciated.
Release Notes:
- Added an uninstall script for Zed installations done via zed.dev. To
uninstall zed, run `zed --uninstall` via the CLI binary.
This changes the Zed CLI `zed` to pass along the environment to the Zed
project that it opens (if it opens a new one).
In projects, this CLI environment will now take precedence over any
environment that's acquired by running a login shell in a projects
folder.
The result is that `zed my/folder` now always behaves as if one would
run `zed --foreground` without any previous Zed version running.
Closes#7894Closes#16293
Related issues:
- It fixes the issue described in here:
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4977#issuecomment-2305272027
Release Notes:
- Improved the Zed CLI `zed` to pass along the environment as it was on
the CLI to the opened Zed project. That environment is then used when
opening new terminals, spawning tasks, or language servers.
Specifically:
- If Zed was started via `zed my-folder`, a terminal spawned with
`workspace: new terminal` will inherit these environment variables that
existed on the CLI
- Specific language servers that allow looking up the language server
binary in the environments `$PATH` (such as `gopls`, `zls`,
`rust-analyzer` if configured, ...) will look up the language server
binary in the CLI environment too and use that environment when starting
the process.
- Language servers that are _not_ found in the CLI environment (or
configured to not be found in there), will be spawned with the CLI
environment in case that's set. That means users can do something like
`RA_LOG=info zed .` and it will be picked up the rust-analyzer that was
spawned.
Demo/explanation:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/455905cc-8b7c-4fc4-b98a-7e027d97cdfa
This PR extracts the definition of the various Zed paths out of `util`
and into a new `paths` crate.
`util` is for generic utils, while these paths are Zed-specific. For
instance, `gpui` depends on `util`, and it shouldn't have knowledge of
these paths, since they are only used by Zed.
Release Notes:
- N/A
- [x] Build out cli on linux
- [x] Add support for --dev-server-token sent by the CLI
- [x] Package cli into the .tar.gz
- [x] Link the cli to ~/.local/bin in install.sh
Release Notes:
- linux: Add cli support for managing zed
With this commit, it is now possible to invoke cli with a release
channel of bundle as an argument. E.g: `zed stable some_arguments` will
find CLI binary of Stable channel installed on your machine and invoke
it with `some_arguments` (so the first argument is essentially omitted).
Fixes#10851
Release Notes:
- CLI now accepts an optional name of release channel as it's first
argument. For example, `zed stable` will always use your Stable
installation's CLI. Trailing args are passed along.
This PR moves the Clippy configuration up to the workspace level.
We're using the [`lints`
table](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/workspaces.html#the-lints-table)
to configure the Clippy ruleset in the workspace's `Cargo.toml`.
Each crate in the workspace now has the following in their own
`Cargo.toml` to inherit the lints from the workspace:
```toml
[lints]
workspace = true
```
This allows for configuring rust-analyzer to show Clippy lints in the
editor by using the following configuration in your Zed `settings.json`:
```json
{
"lsp": {
"rust-analyzer": {
"initialization_options": {
"check": {
"command": "clippy"
}
}
}
}
```
Release Notes:
- N/A
This PR sets up a `cargo xtask clippy` command for running `cargo
clippy` with our defined set of options.
The intent is to make this easier to manage as we start enabling more
Clippy rules.
Release Notes:
- N/A
This is a follow up to #7945. The current behaviour reads the locale and
infers from that which type of time format should be used (12 hour/24
hour).
However, in macOS you can override this behaviour, e.g. you can use
en_US locale but still use the 24 hour clock format (Can be customized
under Settings > General > Date & Format > 24-hour time). You can even
customize the date format.
This PR uses the macOS specific `CFDateFormatter` API, which outputs
time format strings, that respect those settings.
Partially fixes#7956 (as its not implemented for linux)
Release Notes:
- Added localization support for all macOS specific date and time
configurations in chat
- [x] Fill in GPL license text.
- [x] live_kit_client depends on live_kit_server as non-dev dependency,
even though it seems to only be used for tests. Is that an issue?
Release Notes:
- N/A
We temporarily let it grow when the message size exceed the limit,
but restore the buffer's capacity shortly after. This ensures that,
for each connection in its entire lifetime, we only ever use 1MB.
We still aren't handling CLI requests in the app, but this lays the foundation for bi-directional communication.
Co-Authored-By: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com>
Kirill Bulatov