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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by igorgue »

jinushaun wrote: post #29

Sublime Text is awesome! Even though it's still in beta and missing lots of features, I still bought a license for it last week. As a Mac user, text editors are a pain in the ass. When you're booted into OSX, you wish you had access to your Windows-only text editors. When you're booted into Windows, you wish you had access to your OSX-only text editors. Running Parallels just to edit text is over kill. ST solves this…

As a VIM user I find that amusing, people that use editors other than Emacs and VIM are very disloyal to their editors, I've been using VIM for years, and I'm not switching to another one...

Just out of the curiosity, what editor do you use on Windows?

PRO Tip: Pick an open source editor, so it's always updated (ejem TextMate).

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by swah »

igorgue wrote: post #31
jinushaun wrote: post #29

Sublime Text is awesome! Even though it's still in beta and missing lots of features, I still bought a license for it last week. As a Mac user, text editors are a pain in the ass. When you're booted into OSX, you wish you had access to your Windows-only text editors. When you're booted into Windows, you wish you had access to your OSX-only text editors. Running Parallels just to edit text is over kill. ST solves this…

As a VIM user I find that amusing, people that use editors other than Emacs and VIM are very disloyal to their editors, I've been using VIM for years, and I'm not switching to another one... Just out of the curiosity, what editor do you use on Windows? PRO Tip: Pick an open source editor, so it's always updated (ejem TextMate).

What about people that use both Emacs and Vim?

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by hemancuso »

hemancuso wrote: post #3

It's amazing the consistency of quality of experience between Mac and Windows. The cross-platform license is also fantastic. There will be those days where you, for some reason, arrive on a Windows box and having Sublime Text around will make your day substantially less painful.

Jon - I see you responding elsewhere on the thread. Would love some more info about how you build and develop on 3 platforms simultaneously, with the appropriate native hooks on all of them. Pretty impressive.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by josegonzalez »

swah wrote: post #22
deweller wrote: post #16

Some of the posts here make me think I should seriously consider making the jump from TextMate to Sublime Text 2. Would anyone care to share some good reasons not to make the jump that I should consider?

You already paid for Textmate.

By that logic, one should never upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 unless it's a free upgrade.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by jsdalton »

deweller wrote: post #16

Some of the posts here make me think I should seriously consider making the jump from TextMate to Sublime Text 2. Would anyone care to share some good reasons not to make the jump that I should consider?

I'm going to try it again this a.m., but last time I tried to switch I couldn't do it. It's mostly for ridiculously minor stuff that I have a really hard time getting past.

Here's what I noticed in playing with it again for about 3 minutes this a.m.:

* Fly in animations. When you expand a folder (down) the folder contents fly in from the right instead of just sliding down. WHY? Mixed design metaphors like this drive me insane.

* Harder to distinguish folders from files in sidebar, making it harder to navigate around.

* Find in project appears in very slim opening at the bottom of the window. No highlighting of search terms so it's extremely difficult to visually parse.

If I find/remember other nitpicks I'll put them here.

These are super minor, but for me even the most minor of distractions or frustrations in my text editor can have a big impact on my productivity.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by m0wfo »

jherdman wrote: post #30
jinushaun wrote: post #29

Sublime Text is awesome! Even though it's still in beta and missing lots of features, I still bought a license for it last week. As a Mac user, text editors are a pain in the ass. When you're booted into OSX, you wish you had access to your Windows-only text editors. When you're booted into Windows, you wish you had access to your OSX-only text editors. Running Parallels just to edit text is over kill. ST solves this…

What Windows text editor do you miss when on OS X?

Powerpoint obviously.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by alexis-d »

igorgue wrote: post #31
jinushaun wrote: post #29

Sublime Text is awesome! Even though it's still in beta and missing lots of features, I still bought a license for it last week. As a Mac user, text editors are a pain in the ass. When you're booted into OSX, you wish you had access to your Windows-only text editors. When you're booted into Windows, you wish you had access to your OSX-only text editors. Running Parallels just to edit text is over kill. ST solves this…

As a VIM user I find that amusing, people that use editors other than Emacs and VIM are very disloyal to their editors, I've been using VIM for years, and I'm not switching to another one... Just out of the curiosity, what editor do you use on Windows? PRO Tip: Pick an open source editor, so it's always updated (ejem TextMate).

Maybe that's because Vim and Emacs have a steep learning curve so it's hard to switch to another editor.

Or it may just be because they do all what we can want from an editor (and even more).

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by gjm11 »

swah wrote: post #22
deweller wrote: post #16

Some of the posts here make me think I should seriously consider making the jump from TextMate to Sublime Text 2. Would anyone care to share some good reasons not to make the jump that I should consider?

You already paid for Textmate.

Sunk cost fallacy. Sublime Text doesn't cost any more for people who have already paid for Textmate than for people who haven't. It doesn't have fewer features, or run slower, or crash more, or look worse, for people who have already paid for Textmate than for people who haven't.

The only thing that's different for people who've already paid for Textmate is that they already have Textmate. That might, indeed, make Sublime Text less valuable to them. But the person you're replying to already knows that, and is asking: What reasons might I have for not switching?.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by ma2rten »

swah wrote: post #32
igorgue wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a VIM user I find that amusing, people that use editors other than Emacs and VIM are very disloyal to their editors, I've been using VIM for years, and I'm not switching to another one... Just out of the curiosity, what editor do you use on Windows? PRO Tip: Pick an open source editor, so it's always updated (ejem TextMate).

What about people that use both Emacs and Vim?

I don't think there are many people who are seriously using both vim and emacs equally. Fully mastering either of them costs years...
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