Launching "Marked 2.app" from Zed #40947
              
                
                  
                  
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| Below I show what I use to launch "Marked 2.app" (a macOS Markdown renderer) from Zed. It involves using a task and a key binding. However, this pops up the Zed terminal, which I don't need. I'd like to either: 
 
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| TL;DR: set the task's  [
  {
    "label": "Open in Marked 2",
    "command": "open", // macOS "open" command
    "args": ["-a", "\"Marked 2\"", "\"$ZED_FILE\""],
    "use_new_terminal": false, // default is false
    "hide": "on_success", // default is "never"
    "show_summary": false, // default is true
    "show_command": false // default is true
  }
]source: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks | 
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TL;DR: set the task's
"hide"key to either"on_success"or"always"...[ { "label": "Open in Marked 2", "command": "open", // macOS "open" command "args": ["-a", "\"Marked 2\"", "\"$ZED_FILE\""], "use_new_terminal": false, // default is false "hide": "on_success", // default is "never" "show_summary": false, // default is true "show_command": false // default is true } ]source: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks