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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by matthew349hall »

5_minutes wrote: post #159
mstade wrote: post #70

I 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…

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!

WOOOHOOOOO! License system for the win! I am getting tired of everyone from Autodesk to Apple switching to subscription methods. Subscriptions enable the company to never push new features, buying the software outright introduces motive to add features.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jdc0589 »

mariusmg wrote: post #178
jdc0589 wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

like lots of software, a lot of that can depend on plugins, themes, how many buffers are getting re-opened from the previous editor state, etc.... I imagine it makes it hard to produce meaningful numbers outside of extremely controlled test cases, and might be misleading to some people.

> I imagine it makes it hard to produce They should just compare the startup time of stock versions of 2 and 3 and post those.

That would probably be a good middle ground. You will still get people saying "what the hell, mine take 3 seconds to start up with 10000 plugins and 20 1MB files open, but you say 350ms?" But, can't please everyone.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by gkya »

teamhappy wrote: post #124
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #12

>apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux Major kudos to these guys for distributing their software properly on Linux!

Let me rephrase that. Major kudos to these guys for enduring distributing their software properly on Linux!

It's easy to write a PKGBUILD for Arch, and IDK RPM but writing a Debian package is not that hard too, I've written a .deb that installs all the software I use on Ubuntu Gnome and it's just a directory and two or three files. Its docs could use a bit of help though, the Debian handbook is sometimes very superficial.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by reificator »

mstade wrote: post #70

I 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…

As a former paying user of Sublime, I find this interesting, because their pricing seems to be right on target all around.

If there was a subscription available that offered some amount of extra features, I probably wouldn't have purchased anything at all.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by provemewrong »

mstade wrote: post #70

I 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…

Noone's stopping you from buying more licences, if you really want to support the dev. I think it's overpriced as it is (as another commenter mentioned, considering the competition is FOSS), but I might buy it one day, when I have more disposable money (assuming I won't have switched to VSCode or $hotNewThing by then). I really do like Sublime, and I'm happy 3 is out of beta, but seeing the userbase migrate to Atom/VSCode is worrisome, and makes me doubt $80 is worthwhile investment (I'm mostly worried about third party plugin devs, which was once Sublime's biggest strength).

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jdc0589 »

wow, congrats Jon and Will, this has been a long time coming. I can not think of more than maybe one other piece of software I gladly pay for and look forward to new releases.

Also, Will: I apologize for being one of those assholes with a moderately popular plugin that still hasn't updated the thing to follow Package Control best practices.

I'm sure you guys have discussed it somewhere in the past, but would you comment on where you see Sublime heading feature wise now that there is, arguably, some competition in the same general editor market (vs code, atom, etc...)? I don't like comparing stuff and saying "why can you just do that" but some of those editors, even with all their shortcomings, have massively benefited from good debugger support (vs code), and a pretty well though out set of features to support plugin developers (dependency management, testing, etc...).

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by cdnsteve »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #78
Nvorzula wrote: post #60

I 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.…

I think for Python it's fine enough. I personally use PyCharm when performance isn't as much of a concern. You could give Anaconda a try: http://damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/ Though when I did Python I used one of the PEP8 plugins and the enhanced autocomplete plugin (soo highly recommend it). Also check out: https://realpython.com/blog/python/setting-up-sublime-text-3... A bit dated but some of those plugins are de…

PyCharm is crazy slow for me, I find I don't need 3/4 of the features in it.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by meritt »

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

Text editors shouldn't come with hardware requirements.
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