Title: zed now builds releases; patched one is zeo
Author: Lucas Couto <lucascs@protonmail.com>
Posted: 2026-10-01
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: app-editors/zed

Until now app-editors/zed in this overlay was a daily snapshot of Zed's
main branch carrying the bentoo patch series: the Claude agent
integrations (USE claude-agent-acp-plus, claude-agent-acp-tui,
claude-code-ide) and the agent-panel changes that ride on them.

That package is split in two:

- app-editors/zed builds upstream's tagged releases from source, with no
  patches -- the source counterpart of app-editors/zed-bin. Stable
  versions (1.22.0) and pre-releases (1.23.1_pre) are both offered.
- app-editors/zeo is the snapshot plus the patch series, as it was,
  with Zed's identity replaced by Zeo's: the command is "zeo", settings
  live in ~/.config/zeo/, and it opens zeo:// links (zed:// still
  works). app-editors/zeo-bin is the same build, prebuilt for x86-64-v3
  CPUs (Haswell, Zen 1 and newer).

Only one of zed, zed-bin, zeo and zeo-bin can be installed at a time.


Keeping the patched editor
==========================

1) Switch packages. Portage resolves the blocker by unmerging zed:

       emerge --ask app-editors/zeo      # or app-editors/zeo-bin
       emerge --ask --deselect app-editors/zed

2) Move per-package configuration from app-editors/zed to
   app-editors/zeo in /etc/portage (package.use, package.env,
   package.accept_keywords).

3) Copy your settings once, if ~/.config/zeo does not exist yet (this
   overwrites it). Zeo does not read Zed's directories:

       cp -a ~/.config/zed/. ~/.config/zeo/
       cp -a ~/.local/share/zed/. ~/.local/share/zeo/


Staying on plain Zed
====================

The installed snapshot (1.24.0_pre20261001) is numbered above the
newest release, so the next world update shows a DOWNGRADE of
app-editors/zed to a release. That is expected. The USE flags
claude-agent-acp-plus, claude-agent-acp-tui and claude-code-ide no
longer exist on zed; drop them from package.use.