Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Sublime Text 3.0

sublimetext.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

361–370 of 694 posts

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#361

Post by city41 »

bitexploder wrote: post #284
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…

First: I love ST. It is an amazing software that runs just as good on Mac/Linux/Win. In a pinch I will download and use it and never complain. Python extensibility is also great, since Python is the language I do best. That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs? * Performance: Acceptable on modern day * Goto Anything: Helm/Projectile, command palette = M-x * Text Editing: It is what emacs does be…

I agree that finding an open source, well established and powerful editor is an investment worth making. That basically means vim or emacs. Once over the learning curve, you're setup for long term productivity gains and stability. Since neither editor is going anywhere and they run on pretty much anything.

But for many people, the initial learning curve just isn't worth it. Sublime, Atom and VS Code are all very popular because you just install them and start coding.

I'd love to see someone shake up the space with a "modern" take on emacs and vim: native, fast, powerful, very configurable, terminal based, but also with a conscious view on the initial learning curve and out of the box usefulness.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#362

Post by gcp »

gkya wrote: post #205
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!

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.

Well, offering a repo is yet another step further than just putting a .deb on the website.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#363

Post by arkitaip »

webbrahmin wrote: post #349
tjoff wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, in contrast to a physical thing selling two copies is exactly as costly as selling one. I'd argue that that more than covers the cost of continued development. I can't say I recognize that wrong incentives in real life and I've yet to find a single piece of software that I'm willing to pay a subscription for. It all comes down to business ethics, are you trying to rip off your customers? Most can't afford to pi…

I completely agree with you. I was a user of Balsamiq mock-up tool. But since they moved on to subscription model I stopped using it.

Balsamic mockups desktop is still a single 99 USD purchase. Maybe you thinking of the other versions?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#364

Post by dsego »

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #343
dsego wrote: post #331

If anybody is looking for a more "pro" ui theme, try monokai.pro/sublime-text. You have to buy a license though. It's actually made by the same guy who created the original monokai theme. There is a vscode version as well.

what does a "pro ui theme" even mean?

More elegant, discrete, well-thought-out, carefully crafted, developed with design rigor?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#366

Post by daemin »

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 easier to switch to another text editor than it is a search engine.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#367

Post by daveFNbuck »

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…

Same solution as you, I use different editors in different contexts. You use Emacs and Vim, I use Sublime and Vim. I also edit locally and push my git branch to the remote server to test/run the code. I do that for most bigger changes and use vim to do smaller debugging changes.

Some people use plugins to edit code over a tunnel using sftp. One of my coworkers edits locally and has aliases to rsync and run his code on the remote machine.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#368

Post by kylebebak »

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.

Speed and stability, search, command palette, file navigation, Goto.

And the excellent Python plugin API, which has made the plugin ecosystem so vibrant. Here's one I wrote, https://github.com/kylebebak/Requester, an HTTP client that goes toe to toe with Paw and Postman on features and outdoes them on usability.

I couldn't have have written something like this for any other editor, or any other platform.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

#369

Post by gcp »

dham wrote: post #29
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?

Sublime is still the fastest(opens instantly), and personally it looks better than VSCode with the new adaptive themes. Font rendering on MacOS is native in Sublime instead of the fake blurry stuff you get with Electron.

Font rendering on MacOS is native in Sublime instead of the fake blurry stuff you get with Electron.

Wheee, I'm not the only one bothered by this! It's bad on Windows too, though Linux is fine. It affects all Electron based programs, including Chrome itself.

Post reply on HN