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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by farresito »

udp wrote: post #469
cholantesh wrote: post #430

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I wish people would learn to appreciate that UX is subjective. I find most GUI-based editors to be RSI inducing. The level of effort required to change that is not worth it for me. Others may disagree. And that's fine.

Just because it's a GUI doesn't mean you have to use the mouse. I find gvim much faster than vim in the terminal because it doesn't have to print a screen full of glyphs for each update.

On the other hand, vim + tmux is pretty awesome, and for that reason I prefer vim on the terminal. I've never particularly liked gvim, even if I'm not using tmux. In Linux, hitting the start or end of a buffer causes some sort of screen redraw that I've never been able to fix, but that might have to do with my configuration.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by cdelsolar »

nerdponx wrote: post #529
bitexploder wrote: post #513

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Sublime took off cause it just works and it has a nice default color scheme and just enough batteries included to make it a functional programming environment for the 80% of programming situations. And it now has enough addons to increase quality of life in many areas and or solve the other 20% in many cases. If I install emacs it is just okay. It probably has syntax highlighting, depending on the Linux distribution.…

Don't forget: it can be arbitrarily extended in a popular programming language and it has an unrestricted free trial.

ST or Emacs?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Pamar »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #535
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…

https://github.com/google/xi-editor

Current Status - from the readme:

This is still a project in its early stages. The Mac build has basic editing functionality (it was used to write this README), but looks very spare and is still missing essentials such as auto-indent. At the moment, it’s expected that its main community will be developers interested in hacking on a text editor.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by smcl »

pen2l wrote: post #488
bitexploder wrote: post #284

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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…

Whereas Sublime "just works", emacs doesn't. But when you're on Windows, boy you have to do a LOT to get it to just work. I tried it (and spacemacs, as I'm quite familiar with vim) last month for doing some python work on Windows... I just gave up after 2 days.

A couple of things that normally annoy me are that it's just a .zip file not an installer so the user has to figure out a "sensible" place to install it is ... and that there's like emacs.exe, emacsclient.exe, runemacs.exe or whatever - a bunch of .exes and it's not clear unless you've dug around a bit[0] which is "correct".

But after that it was relatively plain-sailing for me. What else was troubling you? Note: it's possible that we've got totally different workloads and needs - not saying you're doing anything wrong, I'm just curious

[0] - OK you don't have to dig far, (it's on https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html) but it still annoys me a tiny bit

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by bitexploder »

cdelsolar wrote: post #542
nerdponx wrote: post #529

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Don't forget: it can be arbitrarily extended in a popular programming language and it has an unrestricted free trial.

ST or Emacs?

ST. Python is the popular language. Elisp is... not popular. But you can do CL in emacs.

As an aside I found the Leo editor not too long ago. http://leoeditor.com/ -- one of the few editors that made me think "that is a little new". Leo is implemented in Python.

I wish there was a modern equivalent of emacs, only all Python. :)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by lvoudour »

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…

>Have you ever seen UltraEdit?

A long time ago (>10 years) but then I mostly used IDEs for development. Didn't know it was still out there, I'll may give it another try, thanks

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Jare »

SippinLean wrote: post #409
wbond wrote: post #337

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Unfortunately I don't have an iPad to test with. Is it zooming to 480px wide?

Indeed it's quote large: https://i.imgur.com/6vNoC2d.png If you have a Mac laying around the office install Xcode and the Simulator to test and debug iOS devices.

I have no idea why you got the downvotes. Also, you can check it out with the device emulator in chrome devtools.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by tombusby »

alexggordon wrote: post #195

While I know it might be a little hidden, I'd just like to say I'm really glad Will Bond of Package Control[0] was able to join[1] the Sublime Text team. Having first class support for Package Control in ST is definitely one of the features I value the most out of Sublime Text and IMHO one of the things that still keeps it very competitive with Atom other text editors. I use packages from ST almost every day and plus…

Speaking of, the GitGutter plugin I use just broke on this update.

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

Doesn't even appear in the installable list now. Hopefully he'll get some of these hickups with package manager sorted.

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