[macOS host + Linux remote] Restoring a remote session doesn't load project-local language server init options properly

[dljsjr]

Summary

When Zed is quit with a remote session and then re-launched, it brings up the remote session and language server but seemingly doesn't respect project-local configs that impact the language server behavior.

Description

I've noticed this with both Rust Analyzer, and Lua Language Server. With RA, it doesn't respect my settings in rust-analyzer.initialization_options. In particular, I have analyzerTargetDir set here to be different than the workspace target so that Zed and my CLI don't share the same package lock.

When I quit Zed with the window for the project still open, the next time I launch Zed, it's using <project root>/target instead of the directory I specified the project-local .zed directory. The only way to get it unstuck is:

1. Close the project but don't completely quit Zed (this implies macOS),
2. Kill the zed proxy/server on the remote
3. Open the project from the project selector

With Lua Language Server, it doesn't respect the .luarc.json in the project root. I have to take the same steps to resolve it.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set the config "restore_on_startup": "last_session"
2. Open a remote project
3. Set a project-local LSP option in the remote project root's .zed directory
4. Quit Zed without exiting the session
5. Re-launch Zed

Expected Behavior: Configs should be respected no matter how the project is launched Actual Behavior: Project-local configs are seemingly ignored in this configuration

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.184.9 (Zed) OS: macOS 15.3.1 Memory: 32 GiB Architecture: x86_64

[steeve]

Ah! Thank you for looking into it! It was driving me mad!

[steeve]

FYI, i fixed it by adding an empty .editorconfig file at the root of my project and then it just worked

[steeve]

It seems I also have to edit/save the .zed/settings.json and it works again

[steeve]

What is super weird is that it works sometimes

[steeve]

Actually, just saving the remote .zed/settings.json fixes it right away without restart

[github-actions[bot]]

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[dljsjr]

This was enough friction that I had switched back to other IDEs for remote dev for a while, but with the bot's stale prompt, I investigated and this seems resolved. Thanks!