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I think Sublime Text is very good but has fallen behind in terms of version control. I think Atom and VS Code are winning the war right now. Especially because the latter are free.
Why do people need git support in an editor so much? Using git from the terminal is easy and you always know what is executed because you do it manually.
It seems to work but it does render certain ligatures incorrectly on OS X for me. For example, ligature and <- is rendered as </. Since it's a dev build, I'm sure it will take some ironing out before it hits the stable version but this is really promising!
Could it be that the syntax highlighter is splitting up < and * as separate tokens?
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Why do people need git support in an editor so much? Using git from the terminal is easy and you always know what is executed because you do it manually.
I'm in the same boat as you (I'm also doing "git diff"manually from the command line before each commit). And to answer your question, probably for the same reason why people have moved on from Assembler to C to managed memory languages to JS and to today's JS frameworks, they want to avoid the "rough" parts by adding another layer of abstraction. For some people constantly going back to the terminal looks "rough", I…
They've also become thousands of times more productive.
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Besides fancy programming fonts (which I have mixed feelings about), ligatures and other complex text shaping features can also be necessary for legibly rendering string literals in some non-Latin scripts, like Arabic script. Even if your code is all in Latin letters, you might have test data, UI text, etc., that's in something else.
Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain leapt to "augh, why!?" -- you've given at least one very clear use-case where ligature support is valuable, which I was totally unaware of.
Which, ultimately, is what matters. You actually have to turn it on in Jetbrain's editors.
It's a decent "no harm, no foul" feature.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly quit sublime after using an editor that supported this feature for a month. While sublime is vastly superior in my mind to most other editors (spacemacs and Vim in my book not withstanding) I make a lot of use of icons in the Nerd Fonts for custom icons so this is a huge plus for me. In my haste: forgot to link to the nerd fonts page! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts For what it’s wo…
Could you expand on what exactly you use Nerd Fonts for? I downloaded a few fonts and was expecting using an icon code + a ligature supporting editor to result in the icon magically appearing in my editor but that does not seem to be the case.
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Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain leapt to "augh, why!?" -- you've given at least one very clear use-case where ligature support is valuable, which I was totally unaware of.
I've been using Fira Code for a while and having ligatures does make code a bit easier for me to read. I certainly could live without the feature, but if it's there, I'm going to turn it on. Which, ultimately, is what matters. You actually have to turn it on in Jetbrain's editors. It's a decent "no harm, no foul" feature.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly quit sublime after using an editor that supported this feature for a month. While sublime is vastly superior in my mind to most other editors (spacemacs and Vim in my book not withstanding) I make a lot of use of icons in the Nerd Fonts for custom icons so this is a huge plus for me. In my haste: forgot to link to the nerd fonts page! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts For what it’s wo…
Which other editor did you use for a month?
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I've spent the last six months trying out new fonts (m0n0, hack, monoid, hasklig, fira code, mononoki, fixedsys excelsior, iosevka, source code pro, input...) Nothing cuts it, there's always that tiny thing that bothers me, and I'm back with Ubuntu Mono.
Yeah it's great isn't it? I've tried heaps of times over the last few years to switch and haven't found a font I like better than Ubuntu Mono.