Thanks guys for a solid piece of software.
After using ST for five years I felt like I should probably purchase a licence :) I feel guilty for not doing it sooner.
Sublime Text 3.0
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Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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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 :)
> That said, caps to control is a great quality of life improvement for anyone that uses CTRL for anything
I agree. I've been a vim user for over a decade, but a few years ago I decided to try mapping capslock to ctrl and have never looked back. It's a much more natural place for a key that gets used as often as ctrl, while capslock is a key that is rarely used (as a matter of fact, my keymap doesn't even have a capslock at all anymore, and I haven't missed it!). Anyone who uses ctrl more often than capslock ought to give it a try, but beware:
> On other computers IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR ME TO END UP TYPING IN CAPS.
It's a real danger!
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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I try such distros every two years or so to see if it's gotten any better. Usually it's not worth my time from the start (fun thing is, I used to use Emacs for a year or so in uni, before turning to Vim and never looking back -- until I had to do Java, which meant Eclipse. I got back to Vim, but the last 5 years it's all ST with some sporadic attempts to like VSC). Let's do this in realtime. I downloaded the latest S…
That's actually a pretty good barrier to entry. With emacs/spacemacs, if installing it is too frustrating for you, then configuring and using it is going to be way too frustrating for you.
Yes. And god forbid it plays out of the box end to end with configuration/elisp being totally optional.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
#644As an enthusiastic Emacs user I can say that Sublime Text is one of the best text editors out there, together with Emacs and Vi-family. I've only sporadically used it but it's really nice. If I was using my "text editor" only for text-editing (I use Emacs apps like Gnus, Elfeed and Org-mode, and really enjoy Elisp and the programmable environment it provides), I'd definitely use it. One thing that I don't understand…
With a license, you get access to the dev builds[0].
Most, if not all, of the new features of the 3.0 release were present in the latest dev version (the dev builds get updated much more frequently, as opposed to the public build, which was last updated Sep 2016).
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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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. :)
Yuck. I prefer what Neovim did: editor comminicates using RPCs with arbitrary external programs using over a socket. Zero language lock-in and maximum extensibility.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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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.
What I do:
* c/p in a gist
* when looking at the gist, print the page in your browser
* save to PDF
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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Well, in contrast to a physical thing selling two copies is exactly as costly as selling one. I'd argue that that more than covers the cost of continued development. I can't say I recognize that wrong incentives in real life and I've yet to find a single piece of software that I'm willing to pay a subscription for. It all comes down to business ethics, are you trying to rip off your customers? Most can't afford to pi…
"Well, in contrast to a physical thing selling two copies is exactly as costly as selling one." Statements like this ignore the costs of creating it in the first place.
No, they don't. Even if the costs of creation were extremely high, selling more copies wouldn't change these costs.
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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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 comple…
I've owned Photoshop since it was distributed on diskettes and I'm still befuddled every time I need its impressive power. (I'm not a professional graphics/photography person so I use the program only a few times per year now.)
I think this is a really good analogy to using pro-level text editing tools (e.g. Emacs or Vi). A mouse is great for poking around menus and operating sliders in a new or unfamiliar program, but Emacs and especially Vim are so fast to use without a mouse that it pains me to watch other programmers editing while using one.
ST is a fine editor, and I use IntelliJ for Java, but I've already spent the time (years) learning Emacs. Is it worth it for me to start over? No. I use IntelliJ for Java programming, but I use only its basic Emacs keybindings and the mouse for everything else (befuddled like I am in Photoshop).
Re: Sublime Text 3.0
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jEdit appears to have had multiple cursors since at least 2005, though I don't know how useful they were.
They worked great and I stayed with jEdit long past when it was reasonable to do so because of that and so many other amazing features.
Why did it stop being reasonable?
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I think for Python it's fine enough. I personally use PyCharm when performance isn't as much of a concern. You could give Anaconda a try: http://damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/ Though when I did Python I used one of the PEP8 plugins and the enhanced autocomplete plugin (soo highly recommend it). Also check out: https://realpython.com/blog/python/setting-up-sublime-text-3... A bit dated but some of those plugins are de…
PyCharm is crazy slow for me, I find I don't need 3/4 of the features in it.
Personally used to the "slowness" of PyCharm, still think it's fast enough and doesn't get in my way too much. If I'm on a system that can't handle a full blown IDE something like Emacs w/ Spacemacs or Sublime Text 3 works for me. I'm not totally married to my tools, though I do use JetBrains software as much as I can. PyCharm has debugging tools and other things which I find useful, though I do agree, it does seem a bit overwhelming at first.