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Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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Re: Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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Agreed - I'll make sure this gets in for the next version

Hey, sorry to trouble you here, but I had this problem: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=287... and I can't find a solution anywhere, maybe you have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?

I've posted a follow up on the forum - in general, feel free to email suppport@sublimetext.com if something is overlooked on the forum.

Re: Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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If you're a Vim user and like the idea of indent guides, check out https://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides

Interesting. A similar feature built into Vim is `cursorcolumn`, which will highlight the background of whatever column the cursor is in. If you set `cursorline` as well, you get a kind of cross-hairs around the cursor. See e.g. http://briancarper.net/vim/cursorcol.png

I find that feature useful enough that I've never needed indent guides. If you jump the cursor to the beginning of a line, you can easily see which other lines are indented equally with that line.

Re: Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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Have they sorted out the rubbish file manager yet? When I open a directory I don't need an animation of the contents sliding in from the right. This slows me down. I want to switch to ST2 but there's just too many little things holding me back.

How does one animation make the whole file manager "rubbish"? Seems a bit exaggerated...

Re: Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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What I love about ST2 is that although it's very data-driven in configuration (several hierarchies of plain text configuration files + a simple python API), it somehow doesn't seem overwhelming, or that I'm missing all the cool tricks. I hope the author continues to comment all the configuration files and will document 100% of the API.

The editor itself has a great fluid feel. Looks-wise, the default theme is nice, and "Soda Dark", which seems to be a community favourite, is gorgeous.

Re: Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

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ST2 is brilliant. If you're used to TextMate, I encourage you to give it a whirl. I think the trial version is an "unlimited" trial. It only nags you with a dialog box once in a while.

You should still buy it though. The authors made a great product and deserve to be compensated well for their work.
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