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Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by chias »

ssijak wrote: post #63
badminton1 wrote: post #7

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.

For me, the big sell in Atom's git integration is seeing exactly which lines have been added / removed / modified in the gutter and the minimap, as well as seeing what branch you're in displayed in the status bar. I didn't use any of its other git integrations.

Sublime Text can handle the former with the plugin GitGutter. Atom's branch reminder is a nice-to-have but not something that I feel is necessary, so with the plugin I'm a happy camper with Sublime.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by bsimpson »

boterock wrote: post #88
bsimpson wrote: post #42

Yay! Now if only the TypeScript plugin were more reliable. Ligatures and TS support were the things making me consider switching. The TS plugin for Sublime is disappointingly buggy.

I've been using Language Server to learn rust while coming back to ST after using VSCode extensively. Have you tried using a LSP extension instead of a TypeScript one?

No, but maybe I should. Thanks for the tip!

One of the things I hate about the native TS extension is that it disables tab-completion in TS files. I wonder if LSP fixes that.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by bsimpson »

hit8run wrote: post #39
badminton1 wrote: post #7

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.

Sublimes git support is nice with GitGutter and GitSavvy Plug-ins. Try them. Specially GitSavvy is a totally keyboard driven approach that works well for me.

SublimeGit is one of the reasons I still use Sublime, even with all the VSCode hype.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by rootlocus »

plopz wrote: post #85
rootlocus wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they want to avoid the "rough" parts by adding another layer of abstraction. They've also become thousands of times more productive.

Thousands of times more productive, WOW! So we can replace companies entire dev departments with 1 person!

> So we can replace companies entire dev departments with 1 person!

Do entire dev departments use ASM for shitting out crappy electron apps? If it wasn't for all those abstractions, a large amount of today's developers wouldn't work in software development. Show some respect for those whose shoulders you sit upon.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by etatoby »

badminton1 wrote: post #7

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.

Considering the raw performance of ST, which is leaps and bounds above that of VS Code and Atom, it's a steal at its current price. Personally I will continue using it for the foreseeable future, ligatures or not.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by visarga »

sleepybrett wrote: post #96
lghh wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that have to do with ligatures?

He thinks the developers shouldn't waste time on this feature, and instead waste time on another feature that already has multiple solutions in the plugin library. Since I don't think you would be able to do this kind of work in a plugin at all, and can clearly implement his feature in a plugin I feel like he can pound sand. I think he just doesn't want to pay the pittance the developer of the best scp plugin wants f…

I have used editors that aren't as polished but handler file I/O better.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by badminton1 »

badminton1 wrote: post #7

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.

The response was very negative, just to clarify: Sublime is a good editor. I've used it for work and side projects and it is great.

And in great part, Atom and VS Code could be said to be clones of Sublime. So don't take offense here.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by Shorel »

skytreader wrote: post #13
__float wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people use monospace fonts with ligatures specific to common programming languages: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode is one such example.

Nice example, thank you. I see how they managed to avoid my issues. (To save people the click: LaTeX ligatures != Fira ligatures. Most Fira ligatures are for programming operators/comparators and they are made to take as much space as the non-ligature version.)

Both of these ligatures (fi and ->) in standard computer fonts like TTF or OTF use exactly the same technology.

The only difference is that one ligature applies to alphabetic characters and the other to non-alphabetic characters.

Ligatures can be used to make some font aesthetically pleasing like this: http://www.impallari.com/lobster/

Or they can be abused like this: https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

It is perfectly possible for a font to have alphabetic and non-alphabetic ligatures.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by danbolt »

sleepybrett wrote: post #97
danbolt wrote: post #36

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I learned a lot from "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst. I sometimes find it a bit hard to read casually, but there's a lot in there I enjoy absorbing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_...

My friend teaches typography at an fine arts and design school and "Elements" is the textbook. When I went to art school in the 90s it was also one of my textbooks (though it was still a relatively new book at the time). It's one of the few books that's remained on my shelf for the 20ish years since I bought it. I still reference it regularly.

I find it a nice-looking book too, which is unsurprisingly expected for its nature.
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