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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Overv »

mattl wrote: post #71
tuananh wrote: post #20

$80 for something we make a living on is very reasonable.

There's a real danger I think in relying on a proprietary software program for something so key as text editing. For many developers, their editor will be with them for their whole career. Proprietary software has a tendency to not stick around. I hope to see Sublime eventually released under a free software license. I'd donate to that project.

It's not like Sublime Text will suddenly stop working when the developers no longer release any updates.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by FichteFoll »

8draco8 wrote: post #7

I think they finally faced the truth that over 90% of users was using "beta" version (actually their words and stats) and listened to some comments on HN. Good job guys! I'm glad that my favourite editor is finally out. EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424220

There is more that goes into declaring a release as "stable" than just having it not crash.

For example, take the updated homepage, the licence upgrade process, the proper integration into linux package managers and more.

Couple that with the perception of users of things being "stable" having more reliability and them more likely trying it out and finding rare bugs or issues. Just looking at the forum today revealed a couple issues that nobody on the dev releases has discovered or reported.

That said, you still have to release a stable version every once in a while and they knew that. Unfortunately it took longer than anticipated.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by RazrFalcon »

evv wrote: post #163

I see the author, jskinner, is hanging out on this thread! Have you ever considered open-sourcing SLT? This is your only route to immortalize this amazing piece of software. I'm sure you'd receive immense community contributions and widespread support. If you switch to a donation model + enterprise support plans, I think you're likely to earn greatly more than you currently do. I love SLT and have used it throughout…

>I know it will be supported by the community

They won't. Projects like Atom and VSCode thrives because they have big companies behind them. Remove them - and the project will die.

There are tons of abandoned text editors on GiHub.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by rublev »

TheKarateKid wrote: post #241
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…

Can someone please explain to me why $80 for Sublime Text is a good price for a text editor? I'm not flaming, I genuinely want to know. I've tried Gedit, Atom, VS Code, Notepad++ and I fail to see what Sublime offers over those to justify the price.

Nothing is faster for me when opening gargantuan text files. It's never broken for me and never lagged either. I think that's pretty impressive, not to mention the customizability options.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

favadi wrote: post #287
teamhappy wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In the past few months, I see some popular linux softwares started to using AppImage ( https://appimage.org/ ) to distribute prebuilt binary. Not sure if it is a good option for SublimeText.

I'm not a big fan of AppImage. It takes everything good about static linking and then fucks it all up.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by _lce0 »

aantix wrote: post #218
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!

For a piece of software that enables your career, helps you to provide for yourself and/or family, that you probably utilize for thousands of hours over a given year? ST3 is continuously improved. They are developers. They eat. They have families. Just like you receive a salary, because the software you work on, probably is never done. Why would anyone feel entitled to improvements for a flat rate? Is that not greedy…

> [...] that you probably utilize for thousands of hours over a given year

Assuming 4hs net per day, 20 days/month, 12 months .. thats 960 hours/year

And that's assuming that you spent all those 4 hours _entirely_ on your text editor; no cli, no browser, no nothing.. only text editor.

I'd say that on avg we should be doing ~200 hours per year.. Are there any study about this?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by uoaei »

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…

Feel free to donate licenses to university students!

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by agentgt »

ricardobeat wrote: post #277
agentgt wrote: post #263

One of the reasons I still use both Emacs and Vim (yes I strangely use both) is because I can go execute them on a terminal (terminal, tmux, screen, etc). There are just so many times I need to SSH into a machine. I know Emacs has some remote file editing capabilities but for some reason I never liked it (I can't recall why now... I think it was the need to sudo). So I'm wondering what sublime text fans do for remote…

Open a terminal in another window. Moom/Magnet can handle automatic tiling on MacOS.

I'll have to try Moom. Right now I use SizeUp which isn't really a tiling manager but does provide some similar features. I use the tmux iterm integration which I must say is pretty badass. The iterm folks did a good job on that.
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