zed-industries
linux: Only one instance of zed can run at a time after recent commit
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I don't know whether this was intentional or not but after this commit https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/11585 Zed can't have multiple instances open which is really annoying as I often use multiple instances of my text editor
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Zed: v1.0.0 (Zed Dev 6429c038107249f04245aa810ac78a8530da3c49) OS: Linux 1.0.0 Memory: 23.4 GiB Architecture: x86_64
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@DissolveDZ Sorry for the surprise!
Zed now ships two binaries: zed the main editor process, and cli that manages zed (as happens on macOS, etc.)
You should be able to use the cli tool to get the behaviour you're used to.
I do realize this is a bit confusing, so I have two thoughts:
- Maybe we could try and bundle these into one binary, which requires a bit of thought to get right.
- Maybe we should rename
clitozedandzedtozed-daemonor something.
Thoughts?
I think renaming the binaries for clarity is the simplest solution.
However, Platform<LinuxPlatform>::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet on Linux, so I can't use zed's built in command to install it.
From what I can gather from just Ctrl-Fing the repo, right now additional binaries that are included in the Mac bundle just aren't built on other platforms (?). Do I have to manually cargo build -p cli for the CLI for now?
The tar.gz file from https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases should contain both zed and the cli (at the moment). You can install on most systems with curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | bash (see notes on supported platforms).
@mikayla-maki has made some progress on the single-binary approach, so that may make this obsolete.
There are some notes on https://zed.dev/docs/development/linux how to fix this