Serialize the unsaved changes of files not associated with a worktrees

[JosephTLyons]

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Describe the feature

Check for existing issues

• Completed

Describe the feature

Since the following PRs, Zed now restores unsaved content:

• Restore unsaved buffers on restart #13546
• zed: Add ability to restore last session w/ multiple windows #14965

There is a limitation currently. Zed will serialize the changes for files if there are worktrees / projects in the project panel, but it will not do so for instances of Zed that have no worktrees / projects in the project panel - supporting this case would be a nice addition to the workspace serialization story.

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[selfish]

Very interested in this.
Thanks!!

[emadpres]

This issue is literally the only reason I'm still using Sublime as my daily driver. I'd love to draft some notes or paste a code snippet, and still be able to quit the app without being bugged for saving.

[emadpres]

Any update on this?

[fboleto]

A lot of us are still using VS code, or sublime due to the lack of this feature. Anyone has a timeline for this feature to be released?

[AldoMX]

The dev team has explained that they architected the editor around the projects feature, so this request is not feasible without a large refactor that decouples the projects feature.

They hadn't prioritized this request due to the effort required by that refactor.

The workaround is to create an empty folder and open it as a project.

If you ask me, I would suggest to the dev team to use /dev/null as the default project, and leave the refactor for later, people need this feature today, not until 2030.