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Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by whouweling » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 8:21 PM UTC

Shame I didn't know of this editor earlier, although I've been hunting for a perfect editor for quite some time.

(Settled on VIM + boatload of plugins, but its far from elegant)

I love the clean non distracting interface, ctrl-p is also a killer feature with the "@" extension.

Only thing I'm missing so far is the VIM autocomplete from all open buffers feature, saves me lots of typos.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by conesus » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 8:26 PM UTC

zephjc wrote: post #108

UI bug report: Scrollbar behavior is weird. The thumbnail scroller is very cool and stops when the end of the file is visible at the bottom of the view. However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior. Also, I hope you plan to use form controls for saving preferences instead of json-style dicts. And the Comma…

> However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior.

Good news! You can easily turn off this behavior by editing your preferences. Just add this to Preferences > User File Preferences:

    {
        "scroll_past_end" : false
    }

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by Tycho » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 8:32 PM UTC

breathes sigh of release

deletes whole bunch of other editors from hard disk

Seriously, I can't believe this wasn't recommended to me before now.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#114

Post by davidhollander » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 9:12 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…

I do programming in Lua as well lately and nothing beats vim for me. How can you switch to an editor that doesn't have documentation for it's custom key binding API yet? I currently use my leader key as comma "," and have bindings to open an interpreter, save file and run in interpreter, execute block selected in visual mode in interpreter and leave interpreter open, execute selected block + os.clock() to benchmark a snippet, etc. http://www.lua.org/pil/1.4.html

>mongrel2, lua and Tir

Also, respect to Zed and MVC fans. However I've found it simpler to write a pure Lua coroutine\socket based stack on top of HTTP and TokyoCabinet than to use preexisting servers, DBMS, or frameworks. The advantage of LuaJIT is it allows you to develop highly refactorable multiprocess stack in one language and have it probably be faster than I/O that you won't need to use non-refactorable C black boxes or frameworks.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#115

Post by T-R » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 9:14 PM UTC

kingkilr wrote: post #98

jskinner wrote: post #67

As the author of Sublime Text, I'd just like to say thanks for all the kind comments here, it's heartwarming to see so many positive comments.

Just playing with it it feels great, one pony request: make it easier to just open a folder. When just trying out an editor I don't care to setup projects and whatnot, I just want the codebrowser to be rooted at some project dir on my system.

I'm not sure if he's added it to ST2 yet, but in the original there was an option to open a directory as a project. If it's not in yet, it's probably on the to-do list.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by Khroma » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 9:19 PM UTC

jotto wrote: post #99

Any thoughts on what this is written in? How is it cross platform?

It's not Python. I ran otool -L on the binary, and on my Mac, it looks like an ObjC++ program.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#117

Post by thenduks » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:20 PM UTC

kingkilr wrote: post #98

jskinner wrote: post #67

As the author of Sublime Text, I'd just like to say thanks for all the kind comments here, it's heartwarming to see so many positive comments.

Just playing with it it feels great, one pony request: make it easier to just open a folder. When just trying out an editor I don't care to setup projects and whatnot, I just want the codebrowser to be rooted at some project dir on my system.

When you start it up you get a 'blank' project. So just go to Project -> Add Folder to Project... and you're done.

In fact, it even remembers this so you're good for as long as you want to be single-project, too.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#118

Post by Geee » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:25 PM UTC

T-R wrote: post #115

kingkilr wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just playing with it it feels great, one pony request: make it easier to just open a folder. When just trying out an editor I don't care to setup projects and whatnot, I just want the codebrowser to be rooted at some project dir on my system.

I'm not sure if he's added it to ST2 yet, but in the original there was an option to open a directory as a project. If it's not in yet, it's probably on the to-do list.

This is the way I've been using it on the first version. I hope it's coming soon.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

#119

Post by T-R » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #41

Beginner programmer here. I could not use any other editor. Does anyone know if you can collapse functions or blocks of code?

There was a thread about this on the ST forums a while back - I can't seem to find it now. If I recall, block collapsing was a low/non-prority because it was viewed as lending itself to poor code, and mostly compensated for by other features.

My personal opinion - it'd be nice, but I don't miss it enough to switch editors or bug the author - maybe someone will make a plugin for it. I haven't missed it at all in Python or Haskell. Last time I worked on a Java project, I missed it a bit at first, but mostly found that the minimap got rid of that feeling of looking at code through tunnel vision that made me want to collapse it, and by the end of the project I'd shifted to using ST more than Eclipse. I might feel differently if I jumped back in to C#, with #region and all, but I really feel like the C language family lends itself more to IDEs anyway.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by T-R » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 11:02 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #52

jsherer wrote: post #38

I'm running into a few miscellaneous usability issues. Hopefully this public alpha helps shed some light on them and help jskinner polish this app to beta and release. Is there a public forum or site that we can report these to (something like getsatisfaction or tender for customer support)?

Especially language support (clojure) for example.

Sublime Text supports TextMate language files. I've added COBOL syntax highlighting for a friend by just pulling apart someone's tmbundle, the same could probably be done with clojure.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...

Edit: I hadn't seen your posts below saying that this wasn't working for Clojure