Command Palette

The Command Palette is the main way to access pretty much any functionality that's available in Zed. Its keybinding is the first one you should make yourself familiar with. To open it, hit: cmd-shift-p|ctrl-shift-p.

Try it! Open the Command Palette and type in new file. You should see the list of commands being filtered down to workspace: new file. Hit return and you end up with a new buffer.

Any time you see instructions that include commands of the form zed: ... or editor: ... and so on that means you need to execute them in the Command Palette.