It's just $11 to upgrade from version 2... that's a steal
Sublime Text 3.0
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Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#182I don't understand that a product oriented for software engineer use sentence like "Significantly improved startup time" instead of real numbers. What does that mean "significantly"? 10%...50%?
I think values like that are more often used by advertisers, instead of software engineers honestly. It's incredibly tricky to measure the increase of start-up time as a percentage since it matters so much on hardware, what files you have open, if it's cached, etc.
Using a single percentage would probably be more misleading than just saying "significantly improved".
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
and emacs (I use both) but not everyone is able to see how good they are, unfortunately.
Just curious, how can you use both? Isn't muscle memory an obstacle when switching between them?
Some People use evil, which is hands down the best vim emulation out there.
I myself started with evil after a long time with vi(m) and then made the switch to a more "pure" (for the lack of a better word) Emacs experience.
I am still very proficient with vim, even though Emacs has been my daily driver for 4 years.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#184Kudos 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.
yes! this was the feature that won me over (on top of the great syntax highlighting on black background). /happy sublime text user
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#185Sublime is probably the first GUI text editor that left me satisfied. Everything else over the years was either non-portable, slow or lacking features. After two months of use I just had to buy it, it's worth the price. - It's fast and responsive, can handle large files and personally I've never seen it leaking memory or crashing - Love the goto anything and command palette, brilliant - Text editing is great and can…
I prefer VSCode if the hardware can handle it, but otherwise Sublime is my goto. If Sublime ever had as good Git support as VSCode I would permanently switch back to Sublime
I've been very satisfied with https://github.com/divmain/GitSavvy and GitGutter. Together they are how I do almost all of my git.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
multi-select is by no means an ST invention.
As far as I'm aware it is. If you know of an implementation done before 2008 I'd love to know about it.
In LAPIS (1999), you could not only select multiple things, as it could guess what you meant to select based on the structure of the text: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/lapis/index.html
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#187In my experience, the beta had been stellar for ages. But now I can finally drop the money on them ;). Purchased the upgrade license at and incredibly modest price of $30.
Just checked and my upgrade cost is only $11 which I can't really argue with ;)
My upgrade was $11 also, which seems way too little.
Unless I'm way underestimating the subscriber base and associated economies of scale, and they really can afford to drive the upgrade rate by making it this cheap, seems like they're leaving a lot of cash on the table. That's actually a touch worrisome, naturally, because it reduces their ability to fund the business through downtimes and make investments into the product (etc). I depend on their product enough that I want their company to be robust and healthy, even if I have to pay more for that to happen. I know they only have a few people to pay today, and I could be wrong about my core assumption, but I don't think they're anywhere near what the market will bear.
I would have paid almost four times as much without thinking myself poorly used. I originally bought sometime in late 2012 and used version 3 since sometime in 2013... which means I've been getting many of the benefits of the upgrade for close to four years. To be honest, I would have even understood if I had been asked to pay the full license fee again and would have done so without pause.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
and emacs (I use both) but not everyone is able to see how good they are, unfortunately.
Just curious, how can you use both? Isn't muscle memory an obstacle when switching between them?
I also use both and I found that keybindings and interaction with text are so different that it almost does not hurt. What I found much harder is using vim-like modes in editors - they almost match the vim keybindings but not just quite, luring you into the sense of familiarity but betraying at the most critical moment.
The only thing I've had to do was to map in vim to ":w".
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#189For people on Mac, which plugins make Sublime better than current Textmate? I've never switched from it just because, but wouldn't mind switching or paying.
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#190>apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux Major kudos to these guys for distributing their software properly on Linux!
It reminds me that Atom still does have an official repository...