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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jamespo »

musage wrote: post #484
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…

Have you ever seen UltraEdit? I dare you to try the trial, actually go through the exquisite configuration dialogs to make it yours, and then to ever look back :) This isn't as a knock on ST, which I also like, and might even sometimes prefer for pure writing or temporary notes. But it doesn't even have printing out of the box, come on. For me that's too modern.. plugins are nice, but I guess I prefer UE to ST like I…

It's a very good editor; I always assumed it was windows only but it's multiplatform too.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by AsyncAwait »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #12

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

I agree, too many just ship a deb or a simple archive, which is not the best update experience for non-Ubuntu users, even if i.e. the AUR solves most of the pain.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by AJRF »

Is Sublime super good for webdev or something? Does it have a bunch of indespensible plugins for webdev? I cant see upside when comparing it to Vim, but I see lots and lots of folks rave about it so im willing to admit I’m wrong but would like to know why people love it so much.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mahyarm »

criddell wrote: post #152
mattl wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 that hard to switch, especially for a developer that lives in the software. It might take a few days, but if your brain is still fairly plastic, you will adapt. If you are like my parents that can't get on the internet if the browser icon disappears from their desktop, then there might be a problem.

Something I've realized is a lot of our habits transfer over from app to app. Most authors of new software make sure to follow the standard OS text editing conventions, and windows, linux & macos are all fairly similar.

When you use emacs or vim, which import their 1970s / early 1980s OS conventions with their keyboard shortcuts, you realize you can be dropped into a very foreign 'defaults' context, and they can conflict.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by AsyncAwait »

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!

I vastly prefer it to hunting for executables on websites, thank you. And there isn't that many relevant distress to target, especially with things like Flatpack etc.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by coldtea »

Volt wrote: post #375
aantix wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Hacker News. We're discussing a mainstream code editor. There are multiple discussions of code/libraries/engineering every day. The generalization that implies that the OP is a person who codes for a living is far from "completely unwarranted".

There are plenty of students and hobbyists here. So again, take it easy on the assumptions.

If the description of the parent doesn't fit you then maybe you weren't his/hers intended audience?

No reason to tell everyone about it.

If someone comments: "It's not much to pay $70 for something you use professionally, and get value out of it everyday etc" -- it only adds noise to chime in "I don't use it professionally" or "I don't use it everyday".

It's a conditional sentence (even if implicit). If one is not on that category, then yes, obviously the argument doesn't apply to them.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mathnode »

I moved from Vim to ST around 2012, I missed the textmate hype, and never looked back.

Since then it has been my main editor, cross platform for php, then python, then ruby, to java (...yup), and now clojure and racket. And of course all the SQL, shell scripts, and config file munging in between.

Maybe one day I will learn emacs, but for the meantime I am happy and productive.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by weaksauce »

coldtea wrote: post #458
bitexploder wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs? The shortcuts make it a non-starter for me. Having to configure stuff even more so.

spacemacs is solid if you want to try out a well configured emacs. magit, org mode, helm are amazing tools and part of the killer feature list of emacs. magit is so good even if I stopped using emacs tomorrow I would still use it for my git gui.

http://www.spacemacs.org

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