Zed

What this config does

Zed uses Vim mode, the Oxocarbon theme, Inter for the UI, 0xProto Nerd Font for buffers, and format-on-save. Home Manager installs language tools so Zed can find them when launched from the desktop.

Nix location

• conf/shared.nix: programs.zed-editor
• conf/shared.nix: editor-tool-pkgs

Configured extensions:

• basher
• dart
• elixir
• flutter-snippets
• gleam
• lua
• nix
• oxocarbon

Portable setup

Install Zed and install the extensions from Zed's extension UI.

Install the language servers and formatters you need. This repo configures:

bash-language-server
clang-tools
dprint
elixir
elixir-ls
eslint_d
flutter
gleam
go
gopls
gotools
lua-language-server
nil
nixd
nixfmt
nodejs
rust-analyzer
rustfmt
shellcheck
shfmt
stylua
typescript
typescript-language-server

On non-Nix systems, GUI apps may not inherit your shell PATH. If Zed cannot find a language server, launch it from a terminal:

zeditor .

Or set PATH for desktop sessions through your distro's environment mechanism.

Settings

The Nix config maps to these Zed settings:

{
  "theme": "Oxocarbon Dark (Variant I)",
  "vim_mode": true,
  "ui_font_family": "Inter",
  "ui_font_size": 18.0,
  "buffer_font_family": "0xProto Nerd Font Propo",
  "buffer_font_size": 18,
  "tab_size": 2,
  "hard_tabs": false,
  "format_on_save": "on",
  "telemetry": {
    "diagnostics": false,
    "metrics": false
  }
}

Check it

zeditor --version
which nixd
which typescript-language-server
which rust-analyzer

Open Zed's language server logs if completion or formatting fails.