Zed Code Editor

Zed is a fully offline-capable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, or remotely on any server.

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zed is a fully offlinecapable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on dropbox, or remotely on any server. it has all the code editor features you'd expect and more:

* syntax highlighting for many programming languages (e.g. c, clojure, coffeescript, c#, css, dart, erlang, go, haml, haskell, html, ini files, java, javascript, json, logiql, lua, markdown, nix, php, plist, protobufs, python, ruby, shell, xml)* code completion: symbols and (customizable) snippets* builtin linting for some languages with inline markers (javascript, coffeescript, json, lua, css)* multiple cursors* splitview editing

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Works Offline Dropbox integration Syntax Highlighting Code completion

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