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Preserve untitled files for next time
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Describe the feature
As a Zed lover, I want Zed to not ask to save/delete untitled files when quitting the app but preserve them as is, and have them available for me to work on next time I open zed.
PS: Feature can be tried out in Sublime Text and couple of other editors.
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Very much miss this feature, but one super important thing - if it is added - is absolute certainty that you won't loose content in these "unsaved buffers/documents". Once you start relying on this feature it's an extremely great way to keep notes / snippets, etc, but it needs to be something you can trust. I have 9 year old unsaved content in Sublime, which I'd love to move over, but I don't want to risk loosing them (happened a couple of times in the good old textmate days during an upgrade).
Agree, this is without a doubt a feature I can't migrate to Zed from Sublime without.
+1 Looking forward to having this feature on Zed. This is the one that stops me from migrating from VSCode.
Cat sat on my power button and force quit everything. Lost an hour or so of writing.
Hopefully the feature will save me next time.
Just ran into this issue and was very upset. Zed. Please. Since Atom stopped development, I haven't migrated to another text editor but you were SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE!!
Chiming in on this - this would allow users to use new tabs for notes. It would be immensely helpful.
It looks like this is in progress. Any idea of a timetable we'll see this ready? I also think a lot of us are waiting for this to really kick Zed's tires.
Chiming in - this is the only thing stopping me from uninstalling Sublime and fully making the switch.
I was just about to raise this issue too. All major editors like VS Code and Sublime preserve unsaved files. Zed should do the same, especially considering its frequent updates that require restarts.
Cat sat on my power button and force quit everything. Lost an hour or so of writing.
Hopefully the feature will save me next time.
Bug fixed. The cat has a new home.
I would love for this feature to be added. It's more than just a convenience, it's practically a whole lifestyle.
A first version of this has been merged: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/13546
It'll go into Preview release this week, on Wednesday. Stable release next week, pending any bug fixes or revision.
Please see the constraints in the pull request description that apply to this version.
The cat will be allowed back inside.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cd68f5ae-52a4-4eaa-a6a8-963399011478
The following PRs have added quite a bit to the workspace serialization story:
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/13546
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14965
There are a few known missing bits here, but I think its best that we close this issue out, in favor of new issues that describe those missing bit, so that we can get a clear understanding of how important these bits are to you all, now that most of the functionality has landed. Here are the new issues (upvote via 👍):
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15098
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15097
Killer work @mrnugget!
Thank you @JosephTLyons! I understand the decision to close that issue. With that I think it's important to mention that #15098 is actually the main reason this feature is so desired. Open a new buffer, type something in, and just know it won't be lost.
Thank you @JosephTLyons! I understand the decision to close that issue. With that I think it's important to mention that #15098 is actually the main reason this feature is so desired. Open a new buffer, type something in, and just know it won't be lost.
Note that this will work right now (in today's preview release) if you are opening an untitled buffer and there's a worktree in your project panel.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61345285-1b99-41c8-a805-9ce1ba697458
The only case in which this doesn't work is if you open up a brand new instance of Zed, one that has no projects in it, and then open a new file. I think we definitely want that, but I think a lot of the headache (80 percent or more) has been addressed by @mrnugget's PRs.