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Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by nborgo » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #58

WJW, this is very cool. A few comments: - When you select a file in a project, first it shows some kind of preview and only if you start typing it gets its own tab. Why is that ? Perhaps just keep it simple and always show a tab. - Can I change the font? - Creating a new project could be a little be easier to understand (perhaps add "New project from folder") - The black UI looks great with dark themes, but a gray ve…

To change the font, go to Preferences > User File Preferences and paste this in there:

  "font_face": "Monaco",
  "font_size": 13

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by yalforreca » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #77

yalforreca wrote: post #64

Fast and slick. I like it. Does it support two dimensional copy & paste? ( this is usually done with pressing the left alt key on other editors ).

Column select is triggered by Ctrl+Left Mouse on OS X - Alt+Left Mouse will subtract from the selection.

Ah! So it's called column select. Oops! I am trying Alt+Left Mouse in Windows XP but it doesn't seem to work. Is it different under Windows?

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by spyne-02139 » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:19 PM UTC

iamelgringo wrote: post #10

I've been using Sublime for quite some time on Win7, and I'm in love. I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix…

"and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side."

Elegance of the editor, how it looks? Who cares?! You can make excuses about how emacs/vim are inelegant to rationalize your laziness (I know, I was there for years before taking the plunge.) emacs/vim are always the first to get programming modes for new languages. That should tell you something. People implementing programming languages are using vim/emacs. Why use something less? These are the tools of the trade and they are free. Print out a couple cheat sheets. Put them up around your workstation, and stop whining!

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by etcet » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #5

xd wrote: post #2

Looks great, but any chance of a static compiled version for Linux 32/64bit? I'm getting: ./sublime_text: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Linking with ln -s /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 doesn't work: ./sublime_text: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not found (required by ./sublime_text)

Which libraries are you referring to? Statically compiling GTK would seem a step too far. EDIT: Ah, you've added that now. I'll do some investigation: could you let me (jps@sublimetext.com) know which distro you're running? (I'm the author of Sublime Text, btw)

I got passed the libpng error by installing libpng12 from AUR. Now when I run ./sublime_text I get these errors: http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe It's strange because running "python PackageSetup.py" doesn't produce the same errors. My PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH are both correct. Using python 2.7.1 on arch.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by jskinner » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

mati wrote: post #74

$ ./sublime_text Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Aborted $ python --version Python 2.6.6 Is that my python version? Could the error message be more verbose, or is it not coming from sublime? How do I go about fixing that? Wanted to give sublime a try...

There are currently some issues on non-ubuntu linux distros. I hope to get this resolved in the next few days.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by Soapy_Illusions » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #31

Soapy_Illusions wrote: post #21

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)

It's generally just a matter of getting your hands on a .tmLanguage file (the same format as TextMate), and putting it somewhere in your packages directory (~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/ on Linux). The top Go.tmLanguage reported by Google appears to be a work in progress though, I'll see if I can get something sorted for the next version - I'd like to have Go support out of the box.

This one works great:

https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes

Maybe it should be included by default

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by efields » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:29 PM UTC

As a front-end jockey, one feature of TextMate that I wound up using a lot in CSS is the native OS X color picker. Anyone know if this can be implemented with the current plugin architecture? I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but if I was nudged w/ the reinforcement that its possible, I'd take a crack at it.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by jskinner » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:33 PM UTC

yalforreca wrote: post #82

jskinner wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Column select is triggered by Ctrl+Left Mouse on OS X - Alt+Left Mouse will subtract from the selection.

Ah! So it's called column select. Oops! I am trying Alt+Left Mouse in Windows XP but it doesn't seem to work. Is it different under Windows?

On Windows and Linux you can use Shift+Right Mouse, or Middle Mouse.

Column selection interacts nicely with multiple selections, too: Use Ctrl+Drag (Command+Drag on OSX) to add selections, and Alt+Drag to subtract selections.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by xal » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

kule wrote: post #54

buro9 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome, I too hadn't heard of it before. Killer features beyond just being so good: 1) Available for every platform (learn once, use everywhere) 2) Licensed per user (buy once, use everywhere) Loving it already and will purchase imminently. Edit: Would love it even more if I had a basic vim keymap at hand and could always grab. Looking for most of the basic navigation, editing (yank, delete, paste, etc), sea…

I'd never heard of it either I use TextMate usually just having a quick look, for an Alpha, it's surprisingly polished: * Initial theme is great * Undo isn't character based * Split screen/pane * Top-right there is a cool preview of the document * Cmd-R gives you quick access to methods in the current file * Everything seems very quick & snappy and for the most part looks good especially for a cross-platform app. On…

The fuzzy finder is very fast but it's missing a key thing from textmates fuzzy finder ( Command-T for vim is missing this as well ) that's a bias for close proximity of the character matches. shrb should match a file called shop.rb before a file called shops_controller.rb

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by antihero » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

fingerprinter wrote: post #4

I literally had never heard of this before. I just downloaded it for Ubuntu and HOT DAMN! I am buying this for sure. For anyone waiting for textmate 2, give this a look. It may very well be just what you are looking for. Best part is you can completely change all the keybindings (if you want) so you can create your VIM or Emacs setup if you so choose. Happy day....

The fact that it's cross platform is downright sexual.