Docs
Wu is a fork of Zed. Everything that is not listed on this page works the way it does in Zed, so the
Zed documentation is the reference for settings, key bindings, languages, extensions, tasks, debugging, and remote development.
What is removed
- AI features: the agent panel, inline assistant, edit predictions, and language model providers.
- Collaboration: channels, calls, screen sharing, shared projects, and the sign-in flow that went with them.
- Telemetry, crash reporting, and hang detection. Wu does not phone home.
- Vim and Helix modes.
- Dev containers.
- The REPL and the journal.
If a setting or key binding from the Zed docs belongs to one of these features, it has no effect in Wu.
What is different
- An activity bar on the side switches between the project, git, outline, search, and debug panels. The panels dock on the left by default.
- The
+button in the editor and terminal tab strips sits after the last tab and opens a new file or terminal directly, with no menu. Cmd-W/Ctrl-Wnever closes a side panel. It only closes editor tabs.- Icons and the UI use less memory than Zed for the same workload.
Names and paths
| Zed | Wu | |
|---|---|---|
| Command line | zed | wu |
| Settings (macOS, Linux) | ~/.config/zed | ~/.config/wu |
| Settings (Windows) | %APPDATA%\Zed | %APPDATA%\Wu |
| App data (macOS) | ~/Library/Application Support/Zed | ~/Library/Application Support/Wu |
| Project settings | .zed/ | .wu/ |
Wu and Zed can be installed side by side. They do not share settings, so copy your settings.json and keymap.json over if you want the same setup in both.
What is the same
- Extensions come from the Zed extension registry, and every Zed extension works in Wu.
- Settings, key bindings, themes, and languages follow the Zed docs.
License
Wu is distributed under the same terms as Zed: GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.