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

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Post by unhammer »

codethief wrote: post #261
n42 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of those things that I didn't know I needed. An email client made for power users with the speed, simplicity and flexibility of Sublime Text (and now Merge) would be the end of all of my email woes. I would pay a lot of money for this.

I know that, in terms of UI, this is not precisely the SublimeText equivalent of an email client but have you taken a look at notmuch[0]? It basically operates on your local Maildir which you can keep in sync with your mail server by using a tool like OfflineIMAP[1]. [0] https://notmuchmail.org/ [1] http://www.offlineimap.org/

Or mbsync[1] – I've found it faster and more stable than OfflineIMAP.

[1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html

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

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Post by petey283 »

Already one of the best git clients out there. The snappy feel makes it a joy to go back in time and track the changes and understand more about the entire codebase.

To me, this is an underrated element required in understanding the lifespan of a codebase.

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

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Post by petey283 »

benwills wrote: post #168

Straight to payment for me. Sublime Text is one of the few pieces of software I've just felt was done totally right at so many levels. Entirely happy to give you more of my money.

Same. Product already feels great and I'm ready to use exclusively full time.

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

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Post by petey283 »

DigitalSea wrote: post #29
indentit wrote: post #10

Wow, Sublime Merge is so much smoother than GitKraken, great job! I love that it takes everything we know and like about ST and applies it to Git. It even seamlessly finds my Sublime Text packages, and uses the syntax definitions installed there for highlighting - no duplicate/double configuration required.

GitKraken is a web-based application built on Electron, which is why it is slow. Same thing with Slack. What Jon and his team do is always build native and as you are probably already well aware, Sublime Text Editor performance is consistent across all operating systems.

Native apps ftw.

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

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Post by n42 »

bytematic wrote: post #270
n42 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of those things that I didn't know I needed. An email client made for power users with the speed, simplicity and flexibility of Sublime Text (and now Merge) would be the end of all of my email woes. I would pay a lot of money for this.

Have you tried mailspring?

Mailspring looks nice. I would like the metadata to be under my control and not synced to their servers. The fact that I need to login to their machines turns me off. I'm open to running my own instance of their server. I do not like requiring "the cloud" to use my email client.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

vmsp wrote: post #15
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

Jon, it's impressive how you deliver incredibly performant cross-platform UIs. You really should consider talking about your development and custom widget toolkit. Great job on Sublime Merge.

I've never experienced a non-performant cross-platform UI.

Well, to be honest I've heard of folks complaining about Electron apps, but are easy enough to avoid. Oh yeah and Swing was a bit sluggish… in the 90s.

What am I missing?

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

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Post by ealhad »

derefr wrote: post #235
ealhad wrote: post #55

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I think the point of a tryout version is to make you buy the software.

The point of a tryout version is to allow you to try the software, in order to make you buy the software. For some people (e.g. people who have delayed sleep-phase syndrome), a dark theme is essentially an accessibility requirement. They won't be able to try the software if it doesn't have it. Imagine a piece of software where the demo version doesn't have screen-reader support. Would that make sense? How do you expe…

Well, I haven't tried the software, and won't, since I all my needs are already met and I tend to avoid proprietary software anyway. Nevertheless, I think this is a clever strategy from Jon Skinner and his team.

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

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Post by c-smile »

1st1 wrote: post #231
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

Jon, if you're looking for ideas what to work on next, please consider creating an email client. With fast UI & search, tree view for emails, proper support of plain text emails etc.

Sciter's author here.

I am considering creation of EMail client, as a next step of my https://notes.sciter.com.

The Sciter Notes resembles email client UI pretty close, so UI portion is feasible in months time frame.

At the mean time I am doing html-notepad that has also close UI: https://sciter.com/html-notepad-new-kid-in-the-block/

If someone knows IMAP/POP/SMTP stuff and want to join or invest into the project - please let me know.

I believe it is finally the time to make convenient email client.

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