Automatically reading files changed elsewhere?

[markoa]

Hi, as I'm currently tinkering with Zed I'm of course periodically switching back to my default editor.

If I make some changes & save them to disk in another editor, Zed doesn't pick this up. Instead it flags current buffer as changes that need to be saved.

Frankly this makes it difficult to go back to Zed once I "slip" back to the old editor.

So I'm wondering if there's a setting that I missed or this is not yet implemented?

[Gantushig77]

I'm also facing this issue. Zed editor doesn't know when files changed elsewhere. Especially when using gRPC to generate code, it doesn't know whether the old generated files are changed or not. Also, ORM schema files are not syncing.

Currently using the version Zed 0.146.5 release version.

[rashidnhm]

Yup, I keep having to close and re-open the file in Zed.

[kingtaj]

With the existing behavior, it can be difficult to tell if there are "local" changes that indicate the file is modified, or if the file was written to elsewhere.

[fornellas-udemy]

+1. When I run linters, they reformat code, and zed won't pick it up. No, running linters "on zed" ain't good, because it'd split brain between "how linters are ran on CI" and "on zed".

[edencaldas]

+1 I have been closing and opening zed too much