Search & Status Bar Extras

Quality-of-life additions on top of Zed’s editor.

Search as you type

Project search runs automatically as you type — results update a beat (~200ms) after you pause, no Enter required. This matches VSCode’s behavior and one of upstream Zed’s most-requested changes (zed#9318).

Prefer the classic press-Enter behavior? Turn it off:

{
  "search": { "search_on_type": false }
}

Agent context gauge

While an agent thread is running, a percentage appears in the status bar showing how much of the model’s context window the active thread has used:

• The color follows the agent panel’s thresholds — muted, yellow as you approach the limit, red past it.
• Hover for the token breakdown: used / total, input vs. output.
• Click to jump to the agent panel.
• It hides itself when no thread has token usage.

The gauge is purely local: it displays counts the agent thread already tracks on your machine. Nothing is collected or reported — PaddleBoard’s telemetry stays hard-disabled.

The rest of the status bar

PaddleBoard adds several other status bar items, each documented with the feature it belongs to:

Any of them — and the context gauge above — can be hidden with paddleboard_ui. Hiding an item doesn’t disable the feature; everything stays reachable from the command palette.