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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#22

I am using it on Ubuntu 10.10, looks amazing, is there any way to add syntax highlighting for other languages (Go in my case)

v1 supports custom syntax highlighting definitions (or you could use TextMate's since it uses the same format). I'm sure v2 has this feature also.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Sublime Text is awesome, the main reason I was being stuck with Windows for a long time. But having to use bash and not wanting to pay a lot of money made me learn Emacs. How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? My bet it isn't public information but maybe someone have similar statistics

I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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post #24
post #3

Sublime Text is awesome, the main reason I was being stuck with Windows for a long time. But having to use bash and not wanting to pay a lot of money made me learn Emacs. How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? My bet it isn't public information but maybe someone have similar statistics

I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.

well, I pay like only 1.5x times more for my room. just to compare our costs of living

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.

well, I pay like only 1.5x times more for my room. just to compare our costs of living

I hadn't considered people living in countries with much lower costs of living/wages, my apologies for making assumptions.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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post #24
post #3

Sublime Text is awesome, the main reason I was being stuck with Windows for a long time. But having to use bash and not wanting to pay a lot of money made me learn Emacs. How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? My bet it isn't public information but maybe someone have similar statistics

I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.

$60 can be, depending on where you live, a lot of money. Not everyone lives in USA where $60 is his hourly rate ...

Now I know that a text editor is programmer's basic tool, but if $60 represents one week of your salary and you are already on a tight budget, then I can see how one could not afford that.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#30
Quite arguably one of the best text editors that I've used, It's my primary code/ text editor when i work on a windows machine. I just wish the OSX version was just as good. Looking forward to trying out this version.
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