Expected installation paths on Linux, name of cli binary

[jirutka]

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If I understand it correctly, cli is supposed to be on PATH and used to launch the Zed UI from a terminal, right? However, cli currently expects Zed to be in the same directory as cli and named either zed or Zed. This means cli cannot be named zed (it essentially creates a fork-bomb…), which is quite unexpected.

According to FHS, cli should be installed in the bin directory (/bin, /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin) to be on PATH and Zed (UI) most likely in the libexec directory (/usr/libexec or /usr/local/libexec). cli is not a good name for a binary on PATH, it’s expected to be named zed.

I’m packaging Zed for Alpine Linux (package, APKBUILD) and I had to patch crates/cli/src/main.rs to make it work as expected.

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[mikayla-maki]

FYI, I don't think this patch is doing what you're intending. It leaves the default settings intact until a user opens and saves the new ones. Better to patch the settings in this file, so that they'll be applied from first startup.