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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by vacri »

cletus wrote: post #301
nichochar wrote: post #250

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It's highly likely that OP simply stumbled upon it, or someone recommended it, and now he learned it and is used to it and knows how productive it can be. Thing is, same is true for any other good IDE, of which there are plenty. Personally, it always blows my mind that people don't use VIM :) if they actually spent 5-20hours learning VIM correctly they would not touch these inferior pretty looking UIs

Whereas I view vim as simply a necessary evil and I mean "necessary" in the sense that I want to edit something over ssh. Bret Viktor's oft-quoted "Inventing on Principle" talk touches on this subject where a lot of research has shown that bimodal editors are worse. While I can't argue for how true that statement is, it's certainly been my experience. I always find it jarring to think I'm in command mode but I'm actu…

> You could argue the mouse is slower. I'm not sure if this actually holds up to empirical measurement

It is slower, and does hold up to empirical measurement. Yes, if you want 'ease of onboarding', then vim is not for you. It's a powerful tool for professionals, and like a lot of such tools, it requires some training. No-one ever complains that Photoshop requires training, yet a brand new user to Photoshop is completely befuddled and it takes a long time before they're proficient.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by menssen »

bitexploder wrote: post #515
adamrt wrote: post #478

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https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

Yes. I actually have a hard time using control now if it isn't capslock, heh. On other computers IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR ME TO END UP TYPING IN CAPS. That said, caps to control is a great quality of life improvement for anyone that uses CTRL for anything, but especially emacs users :)

Recently, after some corporate IT crap required handing over my laptop for a weekend, it came back with a post-it note attached that said "your caps lock key is broken, let us know if you want a new computer."

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by grzm »

pen2l wrote: post #560
pech0rin wrote: post #448

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You can easily do that in emacs. Throw this in your init.el (scroll-bar-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (global-linum-mode 0) And it will instantly look a lot cleaner. If you want to toggle it you can turn it into a function and bind it to a key.

> (scroll-bar-mode -1) ...what? You're gonna take away the scrollbar just like that? Implying that the scrollbar is worthless? Scrollbar is very important to me at least, (especially a well-implemented one). It gives me a quick and instant visual understanding of how big the file is, where I am currently in the file, etc. The only improvement I have seen on the scrollbar is Sublime's minimap... I knew there exist ema…

The wonderful thing about the list provided by your parent is that it's optional. Pick and choose the pieces you want. Those may not be the same pieces your parent wants. Fortunately both of you can choose without inconveniencing the other.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by sleepyhead »

pretzel wrote: post #501
kylebebak wrote: post #328

Sublime Text is among the best pieces of software I've used. I bought the license a couple of years ago, and would gladly pay the same amount again. I love its core functionality: speed and stability, search, command palette, file navigation, Goto. I've used a number of editors over the years, and none have felt as fundamentally sound as Sublime Text. The best feature of all is the Python plugin API. Sublime lacks so…

> and would gladly pay the same amount again. Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...

Which is very generous. It's FOUR years ago!

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by geoelectric »

tombusby wrote: post #550
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.

Weird, it was the first thing I installed after installing 3.0 as a new install. Wonder if it's an update issue in particular.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by elnygren »

AJRF wrote: post #505
defrex wrote: post #502

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For me the killer feature of ST is multiple cursors. Despite being relatively fluent in vim, that one feature has always prevented me from switching.

Are "multiple cursors" in ST the same as "visual blocks" in Vim?

Visual mode is slow and awkward compared to what ST can do with cmd+D, for example.

IME, vim actually loses in performance too when editing multiple lines.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mov »

adamrt wrote: post #476
pinum wrote: post #424

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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.

I have my development machine at Digital Ocean. My local machine is an under powered macbook air (underpowered now that I use lots of docker for development). I'll probably just get a tiny chromebook next as I just want a dumb terminal. I run emacs over ssh/tmux. I love it, emacs never shuts down, all my shells run through emacs as well. I can use any machine with my sshkey and be back to work immediately. I can incr…

I do pretty much the same but using mosh instead of ssh. It's really stable even on low bandwidth of crappy mobile connection.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jokoon »

A little late to the party, but I'm glad to see folding code doesn't happen at a new line.

Although there is still no blinking block caret. The size can be changed but it's a solid color, not transparent.

Also I wonder if I could change the background color of the brace matching highlight.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by gkya »

mattl wrote: post #429
gkya wrote: post #205

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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.

Would you share how you made that deb? Sounds useful.

I just made a blog post on this: http://www.gkayaalp.com/deb.html

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by wbond »

tombusby wrote: post #550
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.

If it isn't in the installable list, you may have it installed already.

Package Control is open source and contributions are welcome! We finally get to rip out support for ST2 and Python 2.6 now also!

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