From c138614d49f824b810dd233b6ec65f56f9511e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zed-patches Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:41:52 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 19/22] paths: use Zeo state directories Zeo must not read or write Zed's user data. A rebranded editor sharing ~/.config/zed with the editor it is derived from is not a second editor: it is the same editor under two names, where either one can corrupt the other's settings, and where uninstalling one takes the other's history with it. Upstream made this a one-line change on purpose. The constant carries its own instruction: /// The application name, used to derive platform-specific data, config, /// cache, and state directory paths. /// /// Forks should change this to avoid colliding with Zed's user data. pub const APP_NAME: &str = "Zed"; Everything else is derived from it. APP_NAME_LOWERCASE is computed from APP_NAME in a const block a few lines below, with asserts for emptiness, ASCII, path separators and control characters - so the XDG paths (~/.config/zeo, ~/.local/share/zeo, the cache, state, logs and the database) all follow without a second edit, and a malformed name fails at compile time rather than at runtime. This is deliberately the whole of the change. There is no compatibility shim that falls back to reading ~/.config/zed: a fallback would reintroduce exactly the coupling the separation exists to remove, and would do it silently. Migrating settings from Zed is a copy the user makes, knowingly, once. Decision D4 in zeo/docs/REBRAND.md. --- crates/paths/src/paths.rs | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crates/paths/src/paths.rs b/crates/paths/src/paths.rs index 9c16f1d..7a33c67 100644 --- a/crates/paths/src/paths.rs +++ b/crates/paths/src/paths.rs @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ pub const EDITORCONFIG_NAME: &str = ".editorconfig"; /// and state directory paths. /// /// Forks should change this to avoid colliding with Zed's user data. -pub const APP_NAME: &str = "Zed"; +pub const APP_NAME: &str = "Zeo"; /// Lowercased form of [`APP_NAME`], for use in XDG-style paths on /// Linux/FreeBSD and the macOS `~/.config` fallback. -- 2.55.0