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Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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post #5

As much as this is refreshing, Sublime just works though. Even Sublime 2 wasn't that bad you'd want Sublime 3. For heavy projects I use IntelliJ. I was happy to pay for Sublime. I remember switching from Textmate to Sublime because it had compelling arguments. Sublime is the perfect editor between Notepad and IntelliJ. Anyway I hope this is just as good.

What are your thoughts on VS: Code?

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

#12
Funny - Sublime has been taking a pounding from all angles over the years, but still seems to be bouncing back off the ropes and swinging hard.

This project looked familiar, and I seem to recall coming across it a while back. As others have pointed out, the blog hasn't been updated since 2014, so it looks like a stalled project. Another points victory to Sublime perhaps? ;)

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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> Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go It's very interesting to me that this is the most important statement the creators can make about their project. Of course anyone making a text editor will say it is powerful and elegant. As an end-user, I rarely care what language a text editor is written in. At least not right up front. It might matter if I'm interested in extending or modi…

I also want to know why it's better than the myriad of other text editors out there. Evaluating a text editor and it's extensibility is a time consuming task.

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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post #5

As much as this is refreshing, Sublime just works though. Even Sublime 2 wasn't that bad you'd want Sublime 3. For heavy projects I use IntelliJ. I was happy to pay for Sublime. I remember switching from Textmate to Sublime because it had compelling arguments. Sublime is the perfect editor between Notepad and IntelliJ. Anyway I hope this is just as good.

What are your thoughts on VS: Code?

Not great with large files.

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your thoughts on VS: Code?

Not great with large files.

Still way better than Atom though. VS Code's biggest weakness is the poor selection of third-party plugins. That's primarily why I'm still using Atom.

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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> Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go It's very interesting to me that this is the most important statement the creators can make about their project. Of course anyone making a text editor will say it is powerful and elegant. As an end-user, I rarely care what language a text editor is written in. At least not right up front. It might matter if I'm interested in extending or modi…

For the people they are targeting by calling it a successor to Sublime, the language actually does matter.

Many, likely most, Sublime users are taking advantage of the myriad of plugins written for Sublime in Python. I immediately discounted the usefulness of this product simply because it is written in Go, which would mean I need to find new equivalents for the plugins I use on a day to day basis, or write Go versions of them myself.

I honestly don't have enough to complain about with Sublime that would make switching worth that amount of effort.

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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post #5

As much as this is refreshing, Sublime just works though. Even Sublime 2 wasn't that bad you'd want Sublime 3. For heavy projects I use IntelliJ. I was happy to pay for Sublime. I remember switching from Textmate to Sublime because it had compelling arguments. Sublime is the perfect editor between Notepad and IntelliJ. Anyway I hope this is just as good.

Do any of these text editors you mention include a screensaver? I was just trying BREEZE for MS-DOS today and found that feature really appealing. I came back to my desk and the entire UI had just vanished and turned into a field of twinkling stars. I would love it if one of my more modern text editors did that.

  M-x zone

Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)

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Something about the phrase "Successor to Sublime" rubs me the wrong way. It's condescending and misleading.

I initially thought, did the author of Sublime open source his work like the author of Textmate? But no, it looks like this looks like an independent project, and since Sublime is still updated, can there be a successor yet?

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