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Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by pasbesoin » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 11:58 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #106

I'm taking a first look, and I certainly like the appearance. The older I (and my eyes) get, the more I appreciate sufficient contrast WITHOUT a lot of brightness. One small nit for consideration. I realize it may increase conversions, but I absolutely hate it when an application unexpectedly fires up the browser (and surfs off to an unstated destination). (In Sublime's case, via Help / About.) Some years ago, TextPa…

BTW I tried the 1.4 version as, initially, at least, I didn't want to tackle an alpha version.

I'm pleased to note that line wrapping carries forward the indent level. That's something else TextPad had/has that many of its competitors do not. I find this makes presentations containing wrapped lines much more legible.

EDIT: It would be nice, however, to have an option to restrict the current line highlight to the current display line, for times when the user is working with long form text (e.g. paragraphs).

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by fuzzythinker » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 12:03 AM UTC

I was going to ask how to get vi bindings, but after looking through the features, it seems I would kill most of their hard work and thoughts doing so. The getting started guide[1] is very helpful. To see if a feature is implemented in this alpha, do: Preferences | Default key bindings, search for the command, eg. "ctrl+shift+k" mentioned in support is not found in alpha.

Just one of the most beautifully designed piece of software I've seen.

[1] http://sublime.akalias.net/gettingstarted/

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by roxstar » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

etcet wrote: post #84

jskinner wrote: post #5

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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.

I thought arch moved to python 3 for /usr/bin/python so maybe that is causing the issue?

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by endtime » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 1:30 AM 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…

Komodo Edit is a very nice editor with a Linux version. I use it on Windows, though I'll be comparing Sublime to it now.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by endtime » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 1:31 AM UTC

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.

Thanks for the great work. Any chance of CoffeeScript syntax highlighting?

Edit: Also, do you have indent guides like in Komodo Edit? I couldn't see a way to turn them on, if so. That's a hard feature to give up once you're used to it, especially for Python.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by dschobel » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 2:18 AM UTC

kule wrote: post #54

buro9 wrote: post #33

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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…

Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point)

Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to text editors.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by kellishaver » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 2:19 AM UTC

I realize this is still in alpha and I expect bugs (though it looks incredibly polished), but is anyone else having problems changing the font/font size in the Linux 64bit version? I have changed it in the config file and restarted the program, but it seems to have no effect. I'm just wondering if this doesn't yet work or if I'm doing it wrong.

I'd love to use this, but I need to be able to see it first. :/

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 3:10 AM UTC

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Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by mkramlich » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 3:19 AM UTC

I love the Goto Anything features and the MiniMap. I must have those, somehow, somewhere. I'm playing around with all the Cmd-P and Cmd-R stuff in the Alpha on my Mac right now and love it. Intuitive and very useful in common use cases that come up. I think there's some overlap with what vi can already do, but this might go beyond it. I notice with the Cmd-P stuff it has a stack-like quality as you refine your query, meaning that as you refine your query and jump ahead to see the result, you can incrementally backtrack/unwind your query, to the changes live, and then ultimately you can totally pop back to the file/spot you had been looking at before you entered the Cmd-P query mode. Good stuff. MiniMap is a nice visual hack to help scroll around your code. It feels a little more like chrome than substance, but it's chrome I like, so I don't care. It also gives a birds-eye sense of where the most complex parts of your code are without having to manually look directly at every area at the 1:1 zoom level.

Re: Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

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Post by jskinner » Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 4:57 AM UTC

kellishaver wrote: post #127

I realize this is still in alpha and I expect bugs (though it looks incredibly polished), but is anyone else having problems changing the font/font size in the Linux 64bit version? I have changed it in the config file and restarted the program, but it seems to have no effect. I'm just wondering if this doesn't yet work or if I'm doing it wrong. I'd love to use this, but I need to be able to see it first. :/

Make sure you're changing it in the User File Preferences, rather than the Default File Preferences. The default preferences get overridden by the platform specific ones.