Tasks

Zed supports ways to spawn (and rerun) commands using its integrated terminal to output the results.

Currently, two kinds of tasks are supported, but more will be added in the future.

All tasks are sorted in LRU order and their names can be used (with menu::UseSelectedQuery, shift-enter by default) as an input text for quicker oneshot task edit-spawn cycle.

Static tasks

Tasks, defined in a config file (tasks.json in the Zed config directory) that do not depend on the current editor or its content.

Config file can be opened with zed::OpenTasks action ("zed: open tasks" in the command palette), it will have a configuration example with all options commented.

Every task from that file can be spawned via the task modal, that is opened with task::Spawn action ("tasks: spawn" in the command pane).

Last task spawned via that modal can be rerun with task::Rerun ("tasks: rerun" in the command palette) command.

Oneshot tasks

Same task modal opened via task::Spawn supports arbitrary bash-like command execution: type a command inside the modal, and use cmd-enter to spawn it.

Task modal will persist list of those command for current Zed session, task::Rerun will also rerun such tasks if they were the last ones spawned.