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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by city41 »

pinum wrote: post #424
city41 wrote: post #361

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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 popu…

I think you should forget the whole "terminal based" thing. TUI text editors don't make much sense anymore. Native GUIs are much less clunky and much more discoverable.

TUI still has advantages. Editing files over SSH is simpler, the app is easier to build cross platform, and for me personally the lack of a context switch when I'm in my terminal is nice. Even tiny little differences that keep you in your flow add up.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by komali2 »

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…

Gonna take advantage of having an emacs wizard around -

I love vscode, but agreed, it's bog-slow sometimes, especially when I run in ubuntu. I'm looking around at emacs and I like what I'm seeing, but something that perhaps seems silly is still a bit of a turn off for me - it's pretty effing ugly. I don't mean in the theme sense, I mean in all the stuff cluttering the codepanes.

In VScode I usually ctrl+k z for "zen mode," where the only thing you see is the tabs of your open files, and the code. ctrl+shift+e opens my file explorer when I need it, ctrl+b puts it away (or ctrl+p to go straight to a filename). Same for terminal, ctrl+`, do a git thing, ctrl+` buh bye. Anything similar for emacs? That level of quick control over the UI?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by SirensOfTitan »

bad_user wrote: post #219

I like Sublime Text, but one thing that has really annoyed me is the lack of support for font ligatures. See https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode It's a superficial reason, but I've gotten very used to them in Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code and Atom, yes, I'm still using all of them interchangeably :-(

I find it as superficial as enjoying your editor font. It definitely matters to many of us I think. Sublime has a lot to be desired on the font rendering front from my perspective. I will definitely revisit Sublime once they tackle that presumably in 3.1 or 4.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

pinum wrote: post #424
city41 wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 popu…

I think you should forget the whole "terminal based" thing. TUI text editors don't make much sense anymore. Native GUIs are much less clunky and much more discoverable.

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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

heartbreak wrote: post #340
_lce0 wrote: post #317

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> [...] 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?

Are you suggesting that everyone with an 8-5 job works in Sublime Text for at most 4 hours of the day?

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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by whalesalad »

pvg wrote: post #371
whalesalad wrote: post #341

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Update: It's called Made of Code. Here is the screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JvDEBk7.png Here is the theme: http://fl-mwhalen-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/Made%20of%20Code.tmTh...

https://i.imgur.com/cUCwysp.png

Please explain your wizardry.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by scaryclam »

jwr wrote: post #356
5_minutes wrote: post #159

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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!

"Greedy"? Software is something that needs to be continuously developed and maintained. Charging a one-time fee is a fundamentally unsustainable approach. We all have to face reality and start paying for software as a subscription. Now, that will likely end the bubble of "I can buy 100 apps, most of which I'll never use", which we have been in for the last 20 years or so. But perhaps the few apps that people will pay…

Quite honestly, I don't mind paying a subscription for updates. But I detest having to pay a subscription when all I want is a single copy and don't require rolling updates and support.

Charging a one time fee works just fine for lots of folks out there making software. It's especially good for anyone who's doing it in their spare time as they don't have to provide updates for every little niggle someone may find. Some offer a subscription alongside the one-off model, which is the best of both worlds if the developer(s) are continuously working on it. Others ask you to purchase the major upgrades but give minor upgrades for free.

There are lots of payment models out there, and the developers should pick what works for both them and their customers. There's no way most of my colleagues who have a license would have purchased sublime if it was a rolling cost, so that model seems to be working in their favor right now, at least for single developer purchases.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by s73ver_ »

yodsanklai wrote: post #155
baldfat wrote: post #138

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I left VIM after 20 year to VS Code. I find that the ecosystem at VS Code to be the best I have ever seen. Great job by Microsoft and I use it on my Linux box all day.

Vim code in VS code works very well (and integrates commonly used vim extension such as 'surround'). You can have the best of both worlds.

Is it built in, or is it a plugin?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by macrael »

macrael wrote: post #401

May this be a thread where people post their favorite ST tweaks. Things that really make a difference day to day. I for one swapped the mapping of paste and paste and indent because I want the latter's behavior to be default. I also use a proportional font and love it. Something I can't get vim to do. I like gitgutter though it doesn't refresh properly always. What are your favorite plugins?

Ok, off mobile, here's a better list:

AutoFileName is surprisingly useful, it autocompletes file names.

Gitignored File Excluder is a bit of a hack but is very nice.

I'd love to get sublime linter up and running, but I haven't yet.

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