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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by trishume »

theHazardMan wrote: post #27
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #24

Bar none, my favorite editor. I try to use Vim only sometimes to make sure I keep those commands in shape, but Sublime remains for hardcore work. It breaks my heart that it's closed source. I do wonder sometimes how much the app makes and/or how much someone would have to pay the developer to open source it.

There is "VIntage Mode" for ST, but unfortunately it's not entirely accurate and also doesn't support some commands. VSCode's VIM plugin is more complete.

There's also https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous, which is a maintained fork of Vintageous with some things cleaned up, and some bugs fixed.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

eberkund wrote: post #180
5_minutes wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand your appreciation for the software but begging for another subscription fee? One feature here is that the authors charge a normal fee and are not greedy in your pockets, like 1Password and many others. I really do appreciate the classic software pricing. It could be a higher fee, or more frequent but I'm really tired of all the Recurring costs!

Exactly, for every one person like this there are probably many who would not renew if they went subscription. It's not like they rely entirely on new customers, the company only has two employees and I'm sure ST3 will be out for a few years and then ST4 will come along. Software companies existed long before "cloud licensing" became the norm.

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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#193

Post by SippinLean »

eptakilo wrote: post #10

I primarily use VSCode as my editor but I used Sublime back in the days. I haven't touched it in a while. How do these two editors compare lately?

For front-end web development, OOTB VSCode is much better, in terms of features (though you could probably get ST to be that way with a number of plugins).

ST is still a lot faster, but now that VSCode has introduced multi-folder workspaces there aren't a lot of features I miss anymore.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#194

Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

Beltiras wrote: post #173
yoodenvranx wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the idea to sell 'silver/gold/diamond supporter' licences for 100/200/300$ to people who _really_ love your software? I am not even talking about adding some special features, just enable people to pay more than the normal price and perhaps just add a nice 'Thanks for your extra support' badge to the 'Info' menu.

Buy licenses and donate to your local high school.

Excellent, excellent suggestion.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by alexggordon »

While I know it might be a little hidden, I'd just like to say I'm really glad Will Bond of Package Control[0] was able to join[1] the Sublime Text team. Having first class support for Package Control in ST is definitely one of the features I value the most out of Sublime Text and IMHO one of the things that still keeps it very competitive with Atom other text editors.

I use packages from ST almost every day and plus I wouldn't have gotten my first job without Will (thanks for hiring me even after seeing all that terrible code I wrote), so I can actually say my life would be a lot different without his influence. I'm really happy he's officially part of the team.

[0] https://packagecontrol.io/

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-bui...

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jdc0589 »

ythn wrote: post #141
lvoudour wrote: post #136

Sublime 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 think Will Bond has a git plugin that's supposed to be pretty good. I don't like VCS plugins in my editor though, so I've never tried it.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jdc0589 »

panic wrote: post #157
jskinner wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I'm aware it is. If you know of an implementation done before 2008 I'd love to know about it.

jEdit appears to have had multiple cursors since at least 2005, though I don't know how useful they were.

jEdit was a seriously under rated text editor, I used the CRAP out of it in college.
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