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Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by rhodysurf »

coldtea wrote: post #16
swah wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime fans and VSC fans are almost disjoint sets...

You'd be surprised. I'm tempted to go to the VSC side from time to time because of the more polish -- it's the speed that brings me back.

I tried to switch to VSC the other day but its insane. I have a Surface Pro 3 and it was so slow to edit an 80 line Golang file (With the go plugin). I just cant use a text editor like that to get anything done. Like scrolling lagged, keystrokes lagged. Meanwhile with Sublime and GoSublime on the same laptop there is zero lag.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by merdreubu »

etatoby wrote: post #41
coldtea wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd be surprised. I'm tempted to go to the VSC side from time to time because of the more polish -- it's the speed that brings me back.

You'd t think with their big team and resources, they would have been able to use a more performant cross platform toolkit, say Qt or maybe some of their .Net stuff. Why did they choose to base their editor on Electron, of all things, especially considering the existing results of Atom (horrible) is beyond me.

I think the development of VS Code was kind of an accident. They built Monaco (the editor component) for Visual Studio Online, then made it a standalone text editor as a side project and it ended taking off big time.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by nkkollaw »

scbrg wrote: post #53
nkkollaw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. It's amazing how people still don't want to pay for software.

It's not that we don't want to pay for software, and I don't think that's what OP meant when he used the word "nonfree". It's just that we need the four freedoms in case the software takes a sudden turn in a direction we don't like. Now you're going to ask: How is it possible to support the four freedoms and still charge for the software? And my answer is: I have no idea, and I don't care. It's not my job to come up…

I see. Perhaps I commented too fast.

I don't think it's that big of a deal for a text editor, though.

One thing is if you're a designer and all your files are PSDs and you're locked in with Photoshop, but if Sublime Text dies you still have lots of other editors that will open your plain text files: Atom, Eclipse, etc.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by jbrooksuk »

xgbi wrote: post #74

For those of us that don't own a license, can I use that build without a license?

No. The dev builds are only available for users with a license.

> Sublime Text 3 dev builds are currently available to registered users only.

https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by stinos »

Windows font rendering defaults to DirectWrite unless using Consolas or Courier New

Anyone knows what this means in practice? What rendering is used instead and does this mean Consolas/Courier have a disadvantage or an advantage?

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by tmottabr »

kowdermeister wrote: post #24
klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

Total Commander isn't updated for a long time now and still one of the most useful windows file manager out there. With ST we see slow but constant development, personally I don't care if the author is not a Twitter addict.

Total Commander released version 9 last dec, the first beta for version 9 was available a few months before in june. The previous version before that was 8.52 that was released in Sep 2015, so less them a year between the last two released. This hardly count as not updated for a long time.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by jbrooksuk »

mtarnovan wrote: post #59

Still no support for ligatures, bummer.

Ligatures would be amazing and JPS has said previously that he'd love to implement it, but it's a huge amount of work at the moment when there are other pressing issues.

I hold out hope for it happening one day though!

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by evook »

__roland__ wrote: post #49
klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

Instead of writing blog posts as a vital sign, maybe it would help to offer some regularly updated pre-defined "bundles" of ST together with package sets for a certain audience (JS/TS/Python developer, etc.). Many packages have a higher update frequency, so even when there is no new ST build it would make sense to also update such bundles on a more regular basis (I know packages are updated automatically -- but this…

> While the package control setup is already pretty straightforward, it is still rather confusing for new users that they have to manually install such a 'basic' feature

If that confuses you, why bother trying to code at all?

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by ivanche »

kowdermeister wrote: post #24
klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

Total Commander isn't updated for a long time now and still one of the most useful windows file manager out there. With ST we see slow but constant development, personally I don't care if the author is not a Twitter addict.

4 months is a "long time" nowadays?
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