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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by alexis-d »

aristidb wrote: post #45
alexis-d wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The learning curve of Vim and Emacs making it hard to swith TO another editor? Sorry, but that makes no sense. :-) Maybe Vim and Emacs do have qualities that other editors don't match?

That's not what I meant. What I wanted to say is you put so much effort to master Vim/Emacs (as you want) so if you say "oh great a new editor i'll use it" all the efforts spent in learning Vim/Emacs are "lost".

I hope you get my point!

(and I agree that they have qualities that other editors don't match)

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by neutronicus »

aristidb wrote: post #45
alexis-d wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The learning curve of Vim and Emacs making it hard to swith TO another editor? Sorry, but that makes no sense. :-) Maybe Vim and Emacs do have qualities that other editors don't match?

My fingers do emacs-y things on their own. It's a huge problem for me when I have to do something on windows. Especially C-a. That one's the worst.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by bigethan »

hemancuso wrote: post #14
ConstantineXVI wrote: post #6

Hadn't seen this before, looks pretty neat. The mini-map is a nice idea; just wish I didn't have to give up Vim to use it. ...figures, someone's already on the case.

The mini-map is the first thing I disable. Fun idea but distracting in practice IMHO.

That's what I thought too, but didn't disable it. Now I've found that it's great when you're searching within a file, because you can see the search matches highlight on the minimap. The same highlighting is also great when linting files (https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeLint) to see where errors are.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by buster »

jskinner wrote: post #24
buster wrote: post #10

I love this editor! Once it can open files over gvfs or similar I will definitely buy it!

gvfs should be working fine (I've used it to edit via sftp in the past, at least). If you're not having any luck with it, it's worth posting on the forums or emailing support@sublimetext.com

I see.. i think it wasn't there a while ago.. or i really missed it. Great! I'll buy this great piece of software!

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by jraines »

Pewpewarrows wrote: post #44
swah wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you open lots of buffers on a single vim session, or just start a vim from the terminal for the file you want to edit?

I start vim from the directory of the project that particular MacVim window will be working on. From there I use NerdTree and Command-T to open buffers/tabs in the same window.

I do this too. How do you manage switching between open buffers, or closing one without closing the others? I don't have a good solution for the first, and for the latter I find I have to close nerdtree for :bw to work as expected.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by frou_dh »

This is incredibly slick. TextMate made a big contribution to the concept of a modern editor, but, in the face of this, all it might soon have left is the brand name.

I do hope ST2 gets a better Mac icon for its final release. The big straight-on square doesn't look good; it needs a bit of perspective. Valve's Steam (which on the whole is very un-Mac-like) made this correction.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by ketralnis »

intenex wrote: post #49
m0wfo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Powerpoint obviously.

No - Word is definitely better for coding. But you're right, both are good choices. You can highlight, bold, and italicize all your code at capricious whim, no other editors can compete with that

You laugh, but every now and then I've actually wanted to do this as a commenting technique

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by superchink »

watty wrote: post #48

I've been trying to use Sublime for a while now but really disliked the dark skin (even with theme changed). I just installed: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/ and am in love -- definitely going to be switching over.

Wow, this is nice! Even the dark theme is an improvement over the default.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2091

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Post by mgcross »

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?

I'm not the OP, but I liked Notepad++ before I switched to Sublime for both platforms.
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