Zed Fixes a 2-Year-Old Frustration by Keeping the File Finder Open

It's a small change with an outsized impact on daily flow. Zed just shipped a long-requested quality-of-life improvement to its file finder: pressing the right arrow key now opens a file without dismissing the prompt, so you can keep selecting and opening files one after another without ever reopening the picker.

The friction it removes

Anyone who has needed to open a handful of related files at once knows the pain. Sometimes you want to open multiple files using one file search -- a common example is locale files, which are usually named the same but live in different paths like