Sublime Text 2 Build 2181 • Hacker News Board

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by gulbrandr » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

seclorum wrote: post #38

jguimont wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much better than TextMate. Faster, actually actively developed. Just cmd-t and cmd-p makes it worth the switch.

I bought Sublime as soon as I accidentally hit cmd-R and realized what it was showing me. ;)

What does cmd-R do?

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by jussij » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

Shank wrote: post #40

On Windows you can't do much better, all the paid text editors are crap (Textpad anyone?), and Notepad++'s plugin system falls short of Sublime's (hot installation vs. restarting). As usual another fantastic build.

Zeus editor? - http://www.zeusedit.com

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by imjared » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

Pretty amazing that the one repeated pain point here seems to be the icon.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by jaequery » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

i tried hard to like sublime but at the end, i still go back to the trusty old zend studio 5.5. and i love emacs and it's great for editing scripts here and there but when working on a big project where you have atleast 10 files open, it's not really the best way to do things.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

seclorum wrote: post #37

I feel the same way about Sublime Text 2 as I do with Reaper ( http://reaper.fm ). Both of these applications represent astounding value for money - Reaper is a Digital Audio Workstation, Sublime, a text editor. Both of these applications offer features found in much larger, far more expensive packages - but still, the author keeps them affordable (its an easy, easy buy when the price is right) and competitive. We ge…

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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by no-espam » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:10 PM UTC

FooBarWidget wrote: post #14

The new icon is better, but I still prefer this third party icon: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

The new icon is worse. It doen't look like a key. I only figured that out after reading the article. It's not square made worse by the perspective. The other alternatives look much better.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by _feda_ » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

As much as I think sublime is beautiful and rather useful, I think I'll have to stick with vim. I've invested too much time learning how to use it and configuring it to throw all that away, and besides, it's that effort that has made me so efficient in the environment. There is a "vintage" mode (http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html) that supports some vi bindings, but until I can use vim proper from within sublime, I can't really use the program seriously I'm afraid.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by TylerE » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

no-espam wrote: post #56

FooBarWidget wrote: post #14

The new icon is better, but I still prefer this third party icon: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

The new icon is worse. It doen't look like a key. I only figured that out after reading the article. It's not square made worse by the perspective. The other alternatives look much better.

It does look like a key. A key on a macbook pro.

http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/249927-apple-macbook-pro-...

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by kellishaver » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

ShaneOG wrote: post #8

Sub-pixel rendering! :)

I was amazed at how much of a difference this has made in text quality.

Funny story: I thought the blurriness I was noticing before was due to my new interocular lens implant that I got in December-nope.... turns out it was the font rendering all along and my vision was too bad before the surgery to notice it.

So, better rendering all around, really. :)

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by 5h » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

lvillani wrote: post #23

For the first time I am seriously considering whether to replace Emacs as my primary text editor on Linux. I've been compulsively using Emacs for the past 5 years. Thanks to Emacs I felt in love with (a dialect of) Lisp and experienced the freedom brought by a truly programmable text editor. An enlighting experience. About a couple of weeks ago I began using Sublime Text 2 and... wow, it gets so many things right and…

wrt Bus Factor, for about one and a half years I used the E text editor, a textmate clone for windows backed by cygwin.

The developer seems to have disappeared, I understand it was sort-of open sourced, but it lost momentum iirc, great shame as it was promising, I jumped ship back to Vi and am not about to move again after that!