Zed 1.20.1

This week's release includes an optional cursor movement animation, a setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview, Emmet wrap with abbreviation support, and configurable window title formatting. Shipped by the Zed Guild 🛡️

Added the on_new_window setting to choose whether new windows show the Launchpad (launchpad, the default) or an empty untitled buffer (empty_tab). (#63522; thanks albertbogusz) Fixed ctrl-tab jumping to random documents when the mouse moved during a quick tab switch. (#52671; thanks OmChillure) Fixed a crash in editor: rotate selections forward and editor: rotate selections backward when using cursors on nonconsecutive lines. (#63937; thanks timvermeulen) Fixed language servers from other projects appearing in the LSP Logs view and their statuses showing in unrelated windows' status bars. (#61221; thanks aviatesk) Fixed layout issues in the Settings UI for recently created GitHub accounts. (#63630; thanks tidely) Fixed "View File History" when run from a diff view. (#63539; thanks albertbogusz)

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Added Gemini 3.8 Flash to the Google AI models. (#63643; thanks macayu17) Improved recovery when OpenAI temporarily returns HTTP 404 errors. (#63705)

Git

Improved repository cloning by showing live progress in the activity indicator. (#63239; thanks itsfuad) Improved Git Graph commit details to show the same full commit timestamp as the Date column. (#62679; thanks dem1tris)

Languages

Added Emmet's wrap with abbreviation support (editor: wrap with abbreviation). (#63383) Added syntax highlighting for the C23 constexpr keyword. (#63833; thanks Jesse-Cooper) Improved language server request routing to respect dynamically registered document selectors. (#59243; thanks aviatesk) Improved Go syntax highlighting by distinguishing control-flow keywords from other keywords. (#63769; thanks Gami13)

macOS

Improved detection of worktree root path changes to use fewer file descriptors. (#63863)

Other

Added configurable window title formatting with the window_title_format and window_title_separator settings. (#54379; thanks jknlsn)

Currently supported variables are ${projectName}, ${fileName}, ${filePath}, ${relativePath}, ${branch}, ${remoteName}, ${remoteHost}, ${appName}, and ${separator}. These settings will be populated when importing from VS Code's settings, if window.title and window.titleSeparator are set.

Added the markdown_preview.open_markdown_files_in_preview setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview. (#63462; thanks joshkent94) Added an optional cursor movement animation, enabled by setting cursor_animation.enabled to true. (#63195; thanks tiny-paris) Added a status bar countdown for pending multi-stroke key bindings. (#63343) Added a tooltip showing the file path when hovering over files and folders in the Project Panel. (#63299; thanks skmanoj322)

The tooltip can be disabled, or its delay configured, by changing the project_panel.title_tooltip_delay setting.

Added dev: Debug Filesystem Watching to inspect local watcher events, watch roots, and scan exclusions, and export diagnostic captures as JSON. (#64186) Added the command_palette.use_command_history setting to disable history-based command palette ranking without erasing history. (#64181) Improved multi-cursor editing performance. (#60605; thanks Rani367) Improved installed size on macOS and Linux by stripping debug symbols from release binaries, making them roughly 25% smaller. (#63429) Improved recent commands in the command palette with history indicators, a wider layout, and controls to remove individual commands from history using shift-backspace or the remove button. (#64181) Improved worktree scan performance by removing redundant executable checks. (#63190; thanks hamishc) Raised the default open file descriptor soft limit at startup on Unix/macOS to prevent EMFILE (Too many open files) errors in large workspaces. (#64188)

Bug Fixes

Fixed private files being shared with collaborators through project search. (#63860; thanks 39ali) Fixed a settings key containing a quote or a backslash corrupting settings.json. (#62949; thanks interkelstar) Fixed the Git Panel's History tab, commit search, branch diff, and opening a commit by ref failing when a branch name matched a path in the working tree. (#63666; thanks itsfuad) Fixed Git Panel keybindings matching the Changes tab while the History tab was active. (#63689; thanks shindgew) Fixed diagnostics from the previous language server staying on a file after changing its language. (#63460; thanks kjanat) Fixed syntax highlighting for injected languages in strings containing interpolations. (#49265; thanks jeffbrennan) Fixed a BasedPyright memory leak caused by incorrect workspace diagnostics polling. (#63336) Fixed projects leaking via the Agent Panel. (#63765) Fixed IME staying enabled in the Project Panel on Wayland when no text input was focused. (#63776; thanks Sha1rholder) Fixed the debugger's "Copy Value" copying the truncated preview instead of the full value. (#63902; thanks 39ali) Fixed the Keymap Editor's "Search by Keystrokes" shortcut, cmd-alt-f (macOS) and ctrl-alt-f (Linux/Windows), being shadowed by the file finder. (#63376; thanks dcdeniz) Fixed valid multibyte Agent Skill descriptions being rejected for exceeding a byte-based length limit. (#63766; thanks cmdr-chara) Fixed the Agent Panel appearing in the "View" menu when AI was disabled. (#63580; thanks shxmbles) Fixed agent: manage skills appearing in the command palette when AI was disabled. (#63598; thanks kai-xlr) Fixed case conversion commands deleting the line break when the selection ended at the start of the next line. (#63463; thanks 39ali) Fixed ChatGPT subscription usage limits being reported as temporary OpenAI request throttling. (#63738) Fixed collab language server requests cancelling each other. (#63736) Fixed the deleted git-gutter marker becoming nearly invisible when git_gutter_width was set to a small custom pixel value. (#63434; thanks somtri) Fixed double-clicking the title bar ignoring the macOS "Tiled windows have margins" setting when "Double-click a window's title bar" was set to "Fill". (#63759; thanks RomainDW) Fixed hints for branch and worktree deletion, keybinding conflicts, and edit predictions referring to Alt instead of Option on macOS. (#63807; thanks humdrum00001010) Fixed long ask_user options being truncated instead of wrapping in the Agent Panel. (#63656; thanks cmdr-chara) Fixed Markdown preview headings not rendering at their configured weight. (#63465; thanks archcorsair) Fixed Node tool installations failing or completing partially when packages listed native bindings as optional dependencies. (#52451; thanks KuSh) Fixed the "Organization" section rendering empty in the title bar menu when signed out. (#63728; thanks RadhiRasho) Fixed the preview_tabs.enable_preview_from_project_panel setting being ignored when opening files from the Project Panel with the keyboard. (#63758; thanks cmdr-chara) Fixed the remote projects picker not closing when opening a folder on a remote server. (#63628; thanks mateioprea) Fixed unintended whole-canvas selection when long-pressing in GPUI web applications on iOS. (#63877) Fixed Vim's o not continuing the comment prefix inside C-style multiline comments. (#63751; thanks IbrahimKhan12) Fixed an issue in SSH remote mode where reopening a newly created file at a path that was previously renamed could incorrectly reuse the buffer for the renamed file. (#64028) Fixed CRLF line breaks not normalized in completion labels. (#63984) Fixed diagnostics batches stopping at paths without a worktree. (#64073) Fixed Linux mailto: URI handling when using Help → Email Us.... (#64090) Fixed Project Panel reveal in Git diff multi-buffers. (#64154)

Breaking Changes and Notices

Changed the Agent Panel to copy plain text with cmd-c (macOS) and ctrl-c (Linux/Windows) instead of Markdown. Copying as Markdown moved to the context menu, and the markdown::CopyAsMarkdown action can still be bound. (#63884) Moved the Markdown Preview font settings under the markdown_preview key as font_size, font_family and code_font_family. Existing settings are migrated automatically. (#63462; thanks joshkent94)