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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by provemewrong »

santaclaus wrote: post #627
shortstuffsushi wrote: post #582

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you mention what you're likely to be printing? What sort of uses do you have where you write notes in a plain text editor and print them out? I can't think of the last time I printed anything -- actually, I should say I can't think of the last time that I printed anything that wasn't a contract or HR paperwork type of stuff, which is never in plain text. I'm curious what else is still being printed these days.…

> Could you mention what you're likely to be printing? To paper? Never. To PDF? I've printed to pdf to get nice looking formatted code for presentations. I see print as more a brute force bazooka feature to get nice vector graphics out of apps.

IIRC there's a Sublime plugin (obviously) that supports copy pasting formatted code with syntax highlighting. I definitely remember using it at university. Printing to PDF to get syntax highlighting just sounds like an unnecessary step in between.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by crispinb »

emh68 wrote: post #475

ST is the only editor with non-insane indentation controls: it's right there at the bottom of the window (want to start using 4-space indent in a JS file in the middle of a project full of C++ code that's tab indented? In a project where some C++ devs wrote 4-space indebted JS, when you normally prefer 2, but what to stay consistent? No problem, it's a click away). IntelliJ enforces per-language indentation (what if…

> IntelliJ enforces per-language indentation (what if you have multiple projects with 2 or 4 space indent? Tough luck)

Not the case. You can set it to match existing file indents if you wish (with a notification when an indent style is matched). And you can have individual project-scoped or multiple IDE-scoped language code style presets.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by erikb »

Reading the article it feels like they raised the major number for no reason. But actually if they changed the API a lot and have rewritten parts, then it's really valid. Maybe they should hire a real marketing person, or at least pay for some marketing consulting here and there.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jeremejevs »

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…

https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Yaggo »

Unfortunately the macOS version still has really annoying issue for virtual desktop users: the editor windows are not restored to their previous virtual desktops after restart/reboot. Instead, all windows will open on the current desktop.

If you wish this to be fixed, please comment the related forum post: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/macos-window-restoration-to-...

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by gwenzek »

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?

GitSavvy + GitGutter GitSavvy is a really thought-out Git integration for easy staging/commiting/stashing. It's one of the things that make people say Wow when they see me work.

Also I use a small plugin to add terminal commands to the command palette which is very useful. Can't remember is name though.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by cunningfatalist »

I switched to JetBrains IDEs quite some time ago, but Sublime is still my favorite scratchpad. What make sublime so much better than other editors is how fast and usable it is. I don't want it to be as fancy as VSCode, I just want it to be fast.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by dotancohen »

mattl wrote: post #126
dotancohen wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to think that, until I discovered the IDEA suite (PyCharm, PHPStorm, etc). And many devs use Windows as well. The OS is no less important than the text editor. I still use VIM often enough to stay proficient with it, mostly via SSH, but I'll happily use the closed source IDEA editors when they are available.

> The OS is no less important than the text editor. Depends what you're doing, I suppose. If you're doing web development, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, JavaScript, etc... I don't think being on any particular OS is more important than your tools.

Assuming that the tools run on any OS. Mac users especially seem to rely on tools available only on that platform.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by ship_it »

bakli wrote: post #354
provemewrong wrote: post #207

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Noone's stopping you from buying more licences, if you really want to support the dev. I think it's overpriced as it is (as another commenter mentioned, considering the competition is FOSS), but I might buy it one day, when I have more disposable money (assuming I won't have switched to VSCode or $hotNewThing by then). I really do like Sublime, and I'm happy 3 is out of beta, but seeing the userbase migrate to Atom/V…

It needs to provide you with just enough productivity to help you work for 2 extra hours, and it'll have paid for itself. $80 is peanuts for this.

Does every developer earns $80 for two hours? No.
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