Some feedback from a SublimeText User

[phil65]

Hello! First of all, big thank you. Enjoying this Editor a lot.

Just wanted to give feedback as long SublimeText user (which is probably the editor most comparable to Zed I guess)
I´m almost at the point of ditching ST completely, especially at the rate Zed is moving.

What I am still missing from SublimeText:

• Highlight all occurrences of the currently selected word. Zed does this one time when I enter the search pane (in a quite intrusive fashion) I would love some more subtle hint when a word is selected without having to enter search.

• Live preview when scrolling through the File picker. (ctrl+p) SublimeText shows the corresponding file instantly when selecting them in the file list. Zed seems to have a "preview"-mode, but it still requires a click (or did I miss something?).

• Allow selecting multiple words (and going into multi-cursor mode) when keeping ctrl pressed + doubleclicking on words.

• Allow more flexible layouts. With todays screen sized, ideally i would like the project panel and outline panel both visible on the left side of the text editor. I often "forget" that I have the Outline panel available, which is a shame, because it´s super useful (also for searching).

• The small button in the search pane are very hard to recognize. (even harder in search-replace, I constantly have to read the mouseovers again...) They´re that small that I sometimes need 1-2 seconds extra to focus them with my laptop touchpad. :D

• I cant find a way to disable the "builtin" tasks. Theyre hardcoded to a call to "python3". Most devs will run stuff in the virtual env + it doesnt work on windows at all.

...aaand one unrelated question: I used Zed + its AI features to write my first Rust code in form of a Zed plugin :)
It can be used to pull source code for python packages from UitHub
https://github.com/phil65/zed-pypackage-context
https://uithub.com
I didnt spot any slash-command extensions in the current list, are these kind of extensions fine for the Extensions repository?

Hope this doesnt sound too negative, all in all I´m lovin Zed. :)
Keep up the great work!