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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

bambax wrote: post #228
ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

Hello HN, I'm one of the developers at Sublime HQ. We're all very excited about this release. If you have any questions you'd like to ask I'll do my best to answer them.

The UI of ST is fantastic and like most people here I love it. However, opening big files doesn't work too well, it seems the program wants to load the whole file in memory. Any change on that front?

ST4 has a number of performance improvements in relation to large files, but we don't plan on not loading the whole file into memory as this is a core assumption in the entire UI stack.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by rexf »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #134
alert0 wrote: post #66

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Pretty sure I bought at ST2, been on 3 for a while.

If you've been using 3, you probably paid for an upgrade: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/upgrades

Your link is from Feb 2013.

I bought ST in mid-2014. I don't remember which version I bought, but it must have been ST3 in 2014.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by sprkwd »

yesenadam wrote: post #162
TeeMassive wrote: post #125

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Vim has Vimtutor; could Sublime have its Sumblimetutor too? I've been using Sublime for years now and yet I barely use most of its "well known features" and I feel ashamed of myself. I know there are tutorials out there, but I am a chronic procrastinator and I just can't bring myself to watch them while at home.

You could use philosopher John Perry's method. Put every activity on a To Do list, ordered by importance. Procrastination is doing lower-down items instead of higher-up items. Perry has the top of his list filled with so many awesome items that even things lower down are still well worth doing. So, it sounds like you could add more awesome things to do to the top of your list, until your procrastination becomes thing…

Oh that is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bennyp101 »

beermonster wrote: post #209
SNosTrAnDbLe wrote: post #150

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Thanks for introducing the multi select feature in text editing. There may have been other editors before which had but Sublime was where I first encountered this and where it felt natural. It has saved me countless keystrokes! I use VS Code now but it has started getting slower and it may be time to go back to sublime!

IMHO, VS Code makes for a fine cross-platform IDE (for those that like IDEs) but is a bit heavy-weight as a text editor. I tend to use them both in different situations. If I want something that is FAST on very large files or projects, with superb language support for large numbers of languages and markdown - I use ST.

Yep, I switched to VSCode for general day-to-day coding, then to Jetbeans, but I still kept ST3 around for doing things with text. If I want to manipulate some text (even in large files) quickly, thats my goto tool.

New installs get ST3 installed by default, even if I don't have a plan to use it on that machine, I treat it as if it was a Notepad on windows back in the day.

Wonderful piece of software.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

thejosh wrote: post #197

After having sublime have the same theme for years, changing the theme in v4 is very jarring. Is it possible to go back to the same theme that comes OOTB in v3?

The default theme hasn't changed from "Default" in ST4, though there have been some changes to it. The default color scheme however has changed from Monokai to Mariana. You can easily change it back using `Preferences > Select Color Scheme…`. You can also get back the old tabs - though they do have a reduced feature set - using the setting "file_tab_style".

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by agys »

I love ST.

As many stated here one of its strengths is speed: I “close” the editor when I’m done with it and I reopen it when needed: the boot time is Voilà, I just wanted to share my appreciation to the ST team.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mackrevinack »

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #14

Does anyone still choose Sublime over VS Code? I wonder what plugins I'd miss from a frontend dev perspective.

i begrudgingly use VSCodium at work because they don't have a licence for sublime text and they probably wouldn't buy one if i asked. i swear it takes me twice as long to do things but maybe with time i will get more used to it.

one thing i do like about it is how easy it is to create split screen documents just by dragging then to the edge of the screen

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bruce343434 »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #143
themacguffinman wrote: post #131

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I was surprised to see "By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux". Is there any reason I shouldn't manually enable GPU rendering on Windows/Linux?

Windows and Linux have a much larger variety in hardware and drivers and much lower prevalence of high-dpi monitors. So we felt that for now it would be better to leave it disabled by default. This may change in the future.

Can you at least turn it on this time? I stopped using ST because scrolling was so incredibly choppy on linux. It always lagged a second behind and felt so unresponsive.

Edit: just read the patch notes, the ans is yes. Awesome!

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bussiere »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

Hello HN, I'm one of the developers at Sublime HQ. We're all very excited about this release. If you have any questions you'd like to ask I'll do my best to answer them.

I'am using it since 2 years, and i planned to pay the license as soon as a have a stable income.

For me it's the best second editor, i always have it open when i do an operation. I have different main tool / editor open but always sublime text as a second tool.

Thanks for keeping a 32 bit version also.

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