u/GoofusMcGhee

Long-time SublimeText user looking to switch, but I think there's something about Zed I'm not grokking.

I open Zed and then File->Open a file ("file1.txt").

Then I File->Open a file ("file2.txt"). Now file2.txt is open in Zed, but file1.txt is not.

I hit command-N and get a new tab. I type some things. Then I File->Open a file ("file3.txt"). Now other tabs go away and I have file3.txt open. Sadly, the new text I was typing in that tab is lost.

I'm looking for some behavior more like Sublime Text where I can open various files in their own tabs, and those tabs are never closed unless I specifically tell Zed to close them. The files are often in various folders around the filesystem. I'm not really using Zed as an IDE.

Did I somehow activate some mode I don't understand? Or is there some core idea of Zed I'm not understanding? I don't generally use projects.

Likewise, it would be nice if File->Open Recent showed recently opened files. It shows nothing.

Thanks for any advice!

My mother (85) is in AL. She's at a point where we probably need to look at memory care.

• She has mobility challenges - she's moved from cane to rollator to front-wheeled to edge of needing a wheelchair - in about 8 months.
• MMSE was 16 earlier this year and doc (NP) says there isn't much point in doing further ones but she is worse now.
• She is incontinent often
• She's has fallen 5 times this month
• She is completely incapable of remembering her neckstrap call button (I explained it 3x in the span of 20 minutes and afterwards, she was still asking "what button are you referring to?")
• She's starting to slip into using catch-phrases and often has strange explanations of what's going on around her sometimes.

Mercifully, she's usually in a good mood and never complains about anything.

The AL facility (which has issues but is only 1/2 mile from our house) does have MC, with a ratio of 3 caregivers for 18 patients. I visited it and it's...pretty sad. They keep the patients mostly in a large communal room, so you have a bunch of people sitting around staring into space with a TV going.

My mother is a very private person, so that would be a big change in and of itself, but regardless, it felt rather grim.

The alternative is an Adult Foster Home. However...

• I looked a couple near me and some of the state of Oregon complaints records from inspections and resident interviews are just...appalling. Bathroom accidents not cleaned up, people fighting, theft, residents escaping, etc. Admittedly I only read a couple random ones so maybe I just got unlucky.
• I'm sure there are good ones (?) but the process of sifting through all of them seems very daunting. When we were shopping for AL, there were web sites, reviews, tours, etc. When looking at AFHs, it's just a name and a phone number.

There's also dedicated memory care facilities. We have a call in to talk to a social worker.

This is probably an impossible question but...any advice on the next stage for mom? I've read that once someone is put in MC, they often decline pretty rapidly. At the moment, she spends 90% of her day watching TV or reading religious magazines. I'm just completely terrified of moving her into a bad environment for her final stage.

In the last 2 years, I've facilitated a move out of her house (after 60 years) to IL, then cross-country to AL, and now on to yet another transition...gaaaaah...