Kudos to the ST team for never trying to patent or sue random companies for using the multi-select feature. That feature alone has helped improve so many editors.
multi-select is by no means an ST invention.
Sublime Text 3.0
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Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#102I took a dive away from Sublime Text over to Atom a few years ago because I was starting up some contract work, didn't want to pay for a copy, and didn't want to continue doing the hokey thing of using a friend's license for work purposes. So I got use to Atom just fine, plus the UI is nice. I mean, Atom is nice. The package management is all there and frequent updates are great, but...I don't write JS/HTML/CSS/PHP.…
As someone who uses both editors daily, Atom is simply better for Go because of the plugins there. go-plus is amazing and its maintainers do a fantastic job. That said, ST is still significantly better for many other tasks and I end up using it daily, so you should definitely try it out. I'm just saying don't judge it solely on how well it handles Go because you may be disappointed coming from Atom.
IMHO VSCode's official Microsoft emdorsed Go extension is unparalleled. Little bit of setup but well worth it.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#103I think Sublime is a great editor. I enjoy a lot of the nice UI based workflows Sublime provides - but always felt that mastering VIM / emacs would provide me a far better pay out. Does any body else agree ?
I used to use graphical editors. I used PFE if anyone remembers that and then PSPad. PFE and PSPad were windows only which turned out to be an issue. I then switched to JEdit, but found that a number of plugins had issues and connecting to get a plugin just didn't work on many occasions.
About ten years ago I got a job that required me to edit multiple languages on multiple platforms and I was using about three different editors: Oxygen XML, Eclipse, VS, Python Charm and I just thought this is getting ridiculous. I switched to Emacs because it is cross-platform, fast, and you can edit any kind of file in it. I never looked back. I have edited about a dozen programming languages in it, and used it for markdown, and DocBook and DITA XML editing. Today I am still happily using it. On my latest gig I had to edit TeX - no problem in Emacs. I learn new tricks in it all the time. I have a colour scheme that works really well. Having built in ansi-term and being able to do M-! and then run a shell command save a lot of time in the workflow. There are thousands of features and tweaks you can do. The incremental forward and back search is lightning fast. I use C-r a lot in Bash too. On the whole I'm very pleased with my switch to Emacs. By the way I usually only use the text-only version of Emacs (emacs-nox on Linux). I do keep a copy of AquaMacs installed on my Mac too, but work mostly on the command line.
I did actually try Sublime a few years back and have a licence, but I found myself just firing up Emacs on the command line and C-x C-f to fast load a file more often than not.
I would say, yes, go for Vim or Emacs, but it depends really what you need from an editor.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#104I honestly can't believe I'm saying this, but: can you please enable me to buy a new license for 4.0 even though it may not even be on the road map yet? Or switch to / enable a subscriber model which is paid yearly and gives access to all upgrades? I rely so much on sublime for my day to day work and I fear the $80 or whatever I paid for it whenever ago is too cheap for the amount of value I'm getting out of it, and…
Totally. I bought my license in 2013 and just realized that I didn't even have to pay the 3.0 license upgrade fee! I have used Sublime daily for almost 5 years now and I almost feel guilty for paying so little. I'd be more than happy to pay for a future 4.0 upgrade fee now.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#105I gotta say their new homepage looks like eye candy: https://www.sublimetext.com/
On my iPad however the text is so large as to be difficult to read.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#106I think Sublime is a great editor. I enjoy a lot of the nice UI based workflows Sublime provides - but always felt that mastering VIM / emacs would provide me a far better pay out. Does any body else agree ?
I have sublime installed for double clicking on text files now and then but I doubt I'll upgrade (I never really found it good enough to be an IDE and for plain text I can't beat VIM)
One of the things that I love about VIM is that because I use very few plugins I can edit text just as efficiently on any remote machine without complicated plugin installation.
I need to install VIM style movement in whatever IDE I use (IntelliJ these days) because otherwise I find moving around the text painfully slow.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I am a very appreciative Sublime user as well and want to ensure your business is successful. I started with Textmate during the Rails craze and transitioned to Sublime due to the portability of themes etc. I think I'm still using my 10 year old TM theme. Thank you for the continued dedication to this project.
Amusingly, your 10 year old TM theme probably shows different/inaccurate colours than it did in TM unless you went to the trouble of converting it to sRGB for Sublime.
I'm out now but it looks identical. I'll share a screenshot and download link when I'm back! It's my favorite.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's not that great at several GB :(
I'd guess most editors do. Have you found an editor that doesn't?
I open multi-GB files often enough in VIM. Just make sure that you've disabled any plugins, as _those_ will often crush under large files. The `-u NONE` option will disable `.vimrc` and thus all plugins as well.
See relevant discussion on Stack Exchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139254/why-cant-vim...
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#109Is there an option to print yet?
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no need to imagine. Emacs, Vim, Atom, Notepad++, etc. are all free software.
I use vim and atom, but most of my fellow developers don't want to use atom because it's heavy and slower than st, vim and emacs are out of question for them i think because things like the amount of work needed to prepare all the plugins to get the same functionality as the other tools.
Did you know that there are rich distributions that have done that for you? You can literally install those with a few simple steps and have fully functional super environment.
Key words for Google search: Emacs Prelude, or Spacemacs