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Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by wishinghand »

SippinLean wrote: post #50
Philipp__ wrote: post #28

If Sublime only had definite release! It's wonderful GUI editor! I stopped using it years ago when I switched to Vim and Emacs, but if it gets released I will buy it for sure, at least to have it on my work machine. I like editing text in it, everything is so smooth and well looking, and it doesn't feel bloated. And I just hate all those Electron based editors, no matter how much incrementally they get better from mo…

On the contrary, I still miss the speed of ST but the price-vs-feature ratio on VSC is too high for me to ignore anymore. No way the boss will shell out $70 per license if/when ST3 is ever released (now that half our team has dropped it anyway). Guess what you said about not relying on "public opinion" includes your own.

> No way the boss will shell out $70 per license if/when ST3 is ever released

That's crazy. My computer was waiting with a license for ST3 when I arrived at my first day of work at my job. Everyone's is, and if you prefer Atom or VSCode, they don't care if you switch.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by greglindahl »

andrepd wrote: post #137
pier25 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I haven't found an easy app for Linux that works like Search Everything on Windows. https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert

That's not quite like Search Everything, which is just a tool for searching files by name. In that vein though, see also Synapse: https://launchpad.net/synapse-project

Have you tried 'locate' ?

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by jhasse »

frik wrote: post #96
Philipp__ wrote: post #28

If Sublime only had definite release! It's wonderful GUI editor! I stopped using it years ago when I switched to Vim and Emacs, but if it gets released I will buy it for sure, at least to have it on my work machine. I like editing text in it, everything is so smooth and well looking, and it doesn't feel bloated. And I just hate all those Electron based editors, no matter how much incrementally they get better from mo…

Notepad++ just works and is great. It's lean and has a common UI, has syntax highlighting and auto-complition. The Texteditor that comes with Gnome is similar. Same with Nano, it just works and has a good enough UI.

Gedit doesn't perform as good on large files as Sublime. And nano is missing syntax highlighting for a lot of languages out of the box.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by jhasse »

criddell wrote: post #158
ndh2 wrote: post #151

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That is exactly the reason why I haven't bought a license yet. I consider the license an investment in Sublime's future. Since I don't have to pay, buying a license is more of a donation in order to show support. But the communication seems a bit too sparse/erratic for me to have much trust in this project. The time spans between updates, blog posts, or even tweets are simply way too long. I also consider the existen…

> The time spans between updates, blog posts, or even tweets are simply way too long. Is there a lot that you think ST still needs? As long as bugs are fixed, I'm happy with the functionality of the software today. The software feels done to me.

Integrated debugger similar to VSCode.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by iffycan »

xienze wrote: post #136
news_to_me wrote: post #127

I love Sublime Text. I really dislike heavy IDEs, so for me, it's almost the perfect editor. But... am I the only person who wants a minimal editor like Sublime, plus an inline debugger? Debugging where you edit code is one of those super-features that I really don't understand why people prefer not to have it. Ideally it would be something generic and lightweight, with the ability to extend via plugins. The debuggin…

You're describing VS Code. Now you may not think it's lightweight, but for anyone not toiling away on a turn of the century machine it's plenty fast and has great debugging facilities.

You got me excited, but VS Code is missing the one feature that prevents us from using it (or Atom, or Brackets): the ability to open, display and edit a file with null bytes in it. Sublime does this wonderfully. VS Code refuses to open the file. Atom pretends the bytes aren't there.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by ballenf »

ndh2 wrote: post #151
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…

That is exactly the reason why I haven't bought a license yet. I consider the license an investment in Sublime's future. Since I don't have to pay, buying a license is more of a donation in order to show support. But the communication seems a bit too sparse/erratic for me to have much trust in this project. The time spans between updates, blog posts, or even tweets are simply way too long. I also consider the existen…

The community aspect of ST is a result of the product being somewhat unique in its positioning as commercial product, but also one that is 'free' for use as long as you can put up with the random nag window. The community aspect represents all the people who have never paid a cent for the product finding a different way to give back. Even paying for it costs a fraction of similar commercial software (although this is admittedly a harder argument to make).

Sounds like you want to reward PR over progress and development work. Writing PR and responding to the same questions over and over sucks time away from actual work.

If your point was that they don't respond to questions or are hard to reach, it would make more sense to me, but they seem very responsive.

The trend in software is definitely towards a lot of tooting one's own horn over substance. I don't think that's a good thing that we should be rewarding.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by mos_basik »

parthdesai wrote: post #146
bpicolo wrote: post #140

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I actually switched to VS Code vs Sublime for most tasks just recently. It has a few quirks (looking at you, files that just close for no reason) and isn't quite as quick, but the language/debugging packages and support are just leagues better.

I only go back to sublime when i have to open really large files. Apart form that, couldn't be more happier with VS Code.

...as a sublime user, I go back to vim when I have to open really large files.

I've never used vscode, but this makes me wonder how small a file has to be for vscode to manipulate it quickly.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by JorgeGT »

mataug wrote: post #131

Sublime is my favorite editor for LaTeX. I've tried every other editor on the market, TexMaker, TexStudio, OverLeaf, ShareLaTeX. All LaTeX editors pale in comparison to Sublime + LatexTools Plugin + git. Each tool in this stack is designed to do one thing and they do it perfectly.

Same here, but adding the GitGutter plugin!

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by pikzen »

bpicolo wrote: post #152
simlevesque wrote: post #150

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> files that just close for no reason I never experienced this, which type of files ?

I actually looked into it a bit more. This may have been the fault of the default "workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": true, as quick open is literally the only file opening mechanism I use (I assume, if that's cmd+p). Weird default. I turned it to false, maybe that will fix the closing-files issue. Now if only I can get it to stop automatically closing quotes during comments and ruining my english contract…

"editor.autoClosingBrackets": false

Unfortunately, that also turns off all bracket matching.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by educar »

mos_basik wrote: post #167
parthdesai wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only go back to sublime when i have to open really large files. Apart form that, couldn't be more happier with VS Code.

...as a sublime user, I go back to vim when I have to open really large files. I've never used vscode, but this makes me wonder how small a file has to be for vscode to manipulate it quickly.

I have had better luck with sublime when opening very very long lines (think 56k chars). This comes from a sqldump. Even vim was not up to the task.
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