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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by illizian »

baby wrote: post #646
santaclaus wrote: post #627

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

You may want to a look at https://github.com/mplewis/src2png (it was popular on here at the beginning of the week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15220069)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by chimprich »

chimprich wrote: post #245
gapo wrote: post #15

I think Sublime is a great editor. I enjoy a lot of the nice UI based workflows Sublime provides - but always felt that mastering VIM / emacs would provide me a far better pay out. Does any body else agree ?

I haven't used Sublime much but I get the impression I'm far faster in Emacs than work colleagues etc. are in Sublime or the latest flavour of IDE. That is after at least a decade and a half of learning and configuring Emacs to my preferences though. At least part of that efficiency (apart from Emacs being awesome) is that I've been able to keep getting better at using my editor rather than having to change tools eve…

Downvoted by a vi fan?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by criddell »

mattl wrote: post #655
criddell wrote: post #152

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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.

I must be like your parents. My brain feels hard wired to Emacs.

Just out of curiosity, are you okay with that?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by norswap »

How learnable is Sublime?

- Is there a way to lookup documentation while using the editor (contextual help)?

- Is there a way to access most features without key bindings and to learn the key bindings while doing so?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by SippinLean »

Mahn wrote: post #41

Tangential, but is everyone using Sublime comfortable with the sidebar on the left? Moving the sidebar to the right is the first thing I do in every editor, and the few times I tried Sublime I was surprised that for all its customizability that option doesn't exist. I was skimming through the changelog now and it seems like this is still true today.

If you wanna try VSCode it's as simple as

    "workbench.sideBar.location": "right"

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by SippinLean »

meritt wrote: post #608
jasonrhaas wrote: post #607

Woo hoo! I love ST. I think the biggest thing lacking now is a solid package manager. I like how on VSCode and Atom you can kind of see the "stars" or popularity of the package before you install it.

https://packagecontrol.io/

Still no way to learn about the extensions from within the editor itself. VSCode has the edge here, this is one of those things that really makes sense to have a UI for (beyond ST's Command Palette)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Lio »

nucleardog wrote: post #306
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

You can have your cake and eat it too. There are some really great vim plugins for Sublime Text, including one that uses NeoVim. For me, Sublime Text is basically Vim with an nice UI and some IDE features built in. And Goto Anything. I wouldn't want to live without Goto Anything.

I don't want to put anyone off they're favourite editor but you can have all of that cake (well maybe not all the eye candy) in Vim/NeoVim.

e.g. Goto anything you can use the Ctrl-P plugin.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Lio »

nicoburns wrote: post #471
cletus wrote: post #301

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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…

The 'micro' text editor is a fantastic vim replacement for SSH editing. It's a text-ui like vim, but it has mouse support (for selecting text, etc), and keyboard shortcuts that match bio stands, ctrl-s for save, ctrl-q for quit, etc.

Worth noting, Vim has full mouse support for scrolling, selecting text, resizing windows, etc. in the terminal and when working over SSH.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by vkanko »

One of the best software purchases i have done. But damned be me for purchasing it 25th of Jan and not qualifying for free upgrade. Oh well, the upgrade price isn't that bad.
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