Multiple independent instances for different environments

[LucaFulchir]

Multiple independent zed instances

Setup

I'm using zed 0.203.4 for multiple projects.

I love it, but I use different customized shell environment for every project.

Not just environment variables, but available packages and more (with nix flakes)

Problem

I can't start multiple instances of zed.
Which means that I can't keep more than one project open at a time.

If I open two zed windows the second zed will still use the shell environment of the first zed.
...Which breaks my setup because the two environments are not compatible with the other's project.

zed --new $path still keeps the first zed shell environment

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Feature request

I would just like to have a --new-instance flag that I can use to start independent instances of zed, I'm fine with extra resource utilization

[SomeoneToIgnore]

The Zed CLI binary.
This CLI is a separate binary that invokes Zed.

Examples:
    `zed`
          Simply opens Zed
    `zed --foreground`
          Runs in foreground (shows all logs)
    `zed path-to-your-project`
          Open your project in Zed
    `zed -n path-to-file `
          Open file/folder in a new window

Does -n help?

[LucaFulchir]

uhm... after much more testing I found out it actually worked... sometimes...

It seems my two environments were using different versions of zed, and that can understandably cause problems.
After making sure I was using the same version things improved a lot.

I still have sporadic weird cases were the second zed would start up with the shell environment of the first one, and I can't reproduce it consistently.

I'll close this and open a bug report once I manage to find a reproducible way to start a second zed with the first one environment