From cf6f785661b9d7159dcc88bb923c40d45a20b97f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: temportalflux <dustin.yost.t@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:05:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] replace async-io timer with background executor timer

---
 Cargo.lock                                      | 1 -
 Cargo.toml                                      | 1 -
 crates/gpui_elements/Cargo.toml                 | 1 -
 crates/gpui_elements/src/editable_text/caret.rs | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e01de885c8..ab9fdd6f6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2425,7 +2425,6 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "gpui_elements"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "async-io",
  "gpui",
  "smallvec",
  "unicode-segmentation",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2cef8a084f..d753f97430 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ accesskit_macos = "0.26.0"
 accesskit_unix = "0.22.0"
 accesskit_windows = "0.32.1"
 anyhow = "1.0.86"
-async-io = "2.6"
 backtrace = "0.3"
 bitflags = "2.6.0"
 collections = { git = "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed", rev = "876ec5a8a074ba83cce2129ed4d76b59c05a37e9", version = "0.1.0" }
diff --git a/crates/gpui_elements/Cargo.toml b/crates/gpui_elements/Cargo.toml
index 7220c878bb..07d893acb0 100644
--- a/crates/gpui_elements/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/gpui_elements/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ ignored = ["gpui"]
 
 [dependencies]
 gpui.workspace = true
-async-io.workspace = true
 unicode-segmentation.workspace = true
 smallvec.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/crates/gpui_elements/src/editable_text/caret.rs b/crates/gpui_elements/src/editable_text/caret.rs
index d7a5044d36..70421ca74a 100644
--- a/crates/gpui_elements/src/editable_text/caret.rs
+++ b/crates/gpui_elements/src/editable_text/caret.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ impl Caret {
         let interval = self.interval;
 
         cx.spawn(async move |this, cx| {
-            async_io::Timer::after(interval).await;
+            cx.background_executor().timer(interval).await;
             this.update(cx, |this, cx| {
                 if this.generation == generation {
                     this.paused = false;
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ impl Caret {
         let interval = self.interval;
 
         cx.spawn(async move |this, cx| {
-            async_io::Timer::after(interval).await;
+            cx.background_executor().timer(interval).await;
             if let Some(this) = this.upgrade() {
                 this.update(cx, |this, cx| {
                     if this.generation == generation {