I wasn't expecting that level of support, thanks for the offer!

You said it should work, so I did some poking around. Uninstalled it, reinstalled it. Still didn't work. The "About" in app said I was running 1.0.0+stable

Checked my environment paths and saw I had both

    C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed
    C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\bin

So I opened those paths in explorer, and there is indeed a zed.exe in both dirs. So I tried them explicitly:

    Me@DESKTOP-NN7TD9I ~
    $ "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\Zed.exe" --help
    
    Me@DESKTOP-NN7TD9I ~
    $ "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed\bin\zed.exe" --help
    The Zed CLI binary.
    This CLI is a separate binary that invokes Zed.
    
    ...

They both launch Zed when double clicked, but only one works with CLI args.

Fix is easy then, I just deleted "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed" from my paths.

I don't know if I added that or Zed added that path when installing (maybe from an earlier ver?), but there you have it.