Zed
Zed is a graphical text editor focusing on speed and collaborative editing.
Its Linux support is fairly recent, the NixOS support even more so.
Installation
The package zed-editor is available only from channel 24.11 onward.
CLI support is installed and aliased to zeditor
LSP Support
By default, Zed will try to download pre-built LSP servers in ~/.local/share/zed/languages/
. This does not work for NixOS.
There's sadly no way to inject those from $PATH
for now. Worse, the way to point to the language server is language-specific, there is no global configuration flag for now.
The following sections contain some language-specific setup working on NixOS.
rust-analyzer
Here, we'll assume rust-analyzer is globally installed in your system profile at /run/current-system/sw/bin/rust-analyzer
. You may want to adapt this path in the following code snippet to something more relevant to your use case.
Add the following snippet to your zed configuration file:
"lsp": {
"rust-analyzer": {
"binary": {
"path": "/run/current-system/sw/bin/rust-analyzer",
},
}
}