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Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by davman »

calcifer wrote: post #148
davman wrote: post #91

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Thanks, I think I'd seen this one in the past but had ruled it out due to no Windows support (at the time). Edit: Ah, also "doesn't have features such as tabs" ruled it out for me.

> doesn't have features such as tabs The lack of tabs is a feature for some of us. After all, why have tabs when you can have tmux? :)

I'm not saying you have to have tabs, if you want to paint your terminal pink with yellow fonts and render it upside down then go for it, but I'd like tabs :)

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by aepiepaey »

FichteFoll wrote: post #87
davman wrote: post #51

Looks great Jon, happy you are expanding the Sublime family. Can I suggest Sublime Terminal as a possible addition? I'd happily pay for a decent terminal experience on Windows and with your cross platform toolkit it looks like you could deliver that. ConEmu et al just don't do it for me.

I would keep an eye out on alacritty. It's a blazingly fast gpu-accelerared terminal emulator for Unix (currently) written in rust. According to their 0.2.0 announcement post, where they added scrollback support, Windows is next on the Roadmap.

There are builds available for windows that seem to work: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28#issuecomment-37....

Using it at this point isn't viable however, since the Windows port uses rusttype for font rendering, and rusttype lacks support for hinting.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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FichteFoll wrote: post #87
davman wrote: post #51

Looks great Jon, happy you are expanding the Sublime family. Can I suggest Sublime Terminal as a possible addition? I'd happily pay for a decent terminal experience on Windows and with your cross platform toolkit it looks like you could deliver that. ConEmu et al just don't do it for me.

I would keep an eye out on alacritty. It's a blazingly fast gpu-accelerared terminal emulator for Unix (currently) written in rust. According to their 0.2.0 announcement post, where they added scrollback support, Windows is next on the Roadmap.

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Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by nickjj »

davman wrote: post #126
nickjj wrote: post #123

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Kind of curious, what don't you like about ConEmu? I've been using it for many months now and it's been nothing but solid. I spend 99% of the time using the WSL terminal, and every once in a while I run a PowerShell terminal too.

Really, and its a terrible reason to write an entirely other app, but I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.

> I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.

They bothered me too but it's totally fixable with 1 setting.

There's an option to remove the tabs and they become merged into the titlebar (with numbers). It ends up looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/NDgCZFJ

Then you can use Win + 1 or Win + 2 (or other hotkeys) to switch between them.

Right clicking the titlebar also brings up a context menu for accessing the settings and a bunch of other things.

You can enable this style by going to general -> tab bar -> "don't show" (the radio button on the top left).

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by davman »

nickjj wrote: post #155
davman wrote: post #126

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Really, and its a terrible reason to write an entirely other app, but I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.

> I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me. They bothered me too but it's totally fixable with 1 setting. There's an option to remove the tabs and they become merged into the titlebar (with numbers). It ends up looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/NDgCZFJ Then you can use Win + 1 or Win + 2 (or other hotkeys) to switch between them. Right cli…

Thanks, I'll give this a try :) Currently I have Hyper looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/8pZmMqM so I have tabs that I can click between and they look nice.

"Prettyness" seems like such a trivial thing to complain about, but when I spend half my working day staring at something I'd rather it was nice to look at!

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by wbond »

vladdanilov wrote: post #134
jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Nice to see you're using the same animation technique [1]. MP4 could not possibly provide this level of quality/size (~150KB per animation). Pngcrush is rather limiting though. I could compress the PNG textures by ~8% more with optimage [2] (I'm the author). And for newer browsers, serving the textures as brotli-compressed BMPs would actually make them >30% smaller (probably more with filtered but uncompressed PNGs).…

We built the animations using a slightly enhanced version of anim_encoder, which I currently have online at https://github.com/wbond/anim_encoder. One of the changes was adding pngquant which helped compress the images a bunch beyond pngcrush.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by aetimmes »

b3n wrote: post #132
davman wrote: post #91

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Thanks, I think I'd seen this one in the past but had ruled it out due to no Windows support (at the time). Edit: Ah, also "doesn't have features such as tabs" ruled it out for me.

You can get a tab-like experience using tmux. This also gives you features like scrollback which Alacritty doesn't support out of the box.

Funny you should mention that - alacritty just merged their scrollback feature branch into master a couple of days ago.
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