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I suppose you know that you split the layout of ST just like you can split the pane in iTerm2 ... You can even have the same file open twice in a side by side view.
Right, but that's only for files. My extra panes tend to have REPLs, curls, docs, etc. more often than other files.
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I'm trying to improve this by writing an ebook about Sublime Text 2. If you're interested, here is the first chapter: http://cl.ly/0N0X1j401o22353m2V2V
Yes, please. I am very interested in this. I feel as though I've only scratched the surface of what ST2 can do even though I've been using it for the last year and experimented with writing my own plugins. I'd also love to see a "cheat-sheet" for shortcut keys.
Anyway you can find a great cheat sheet on the links below:
Based on the great reviews of ST2, I switched from vim to ST2 (with vintage mode) a few months ago. It seems good... but it hasn't lived up to the reviews for me. I'm guessing I'm missing some of the functionality. Is there a tutorial anywhere to show me what I'm missing? How have you learned about ST2 features (rather than just repeating your old editing habits in a new program)?
1. The linting plugin support was woefully broken and often hung up the editor, that may be better now, but it seems to be a single thread for all plugins. For Vim I use syntastic and find it works great.
2. Visual mode (using vintage) isn't great, block selection pretty much didn't work. There was a plugin that could do multiselect based on regex, but for the most part that wasn't what I needed.
3. Speed wasn't great but it was a beta, I'm tempted to give it another go. To be honest though, at least for RoR work Rubymine seems like a better editor if you are looking for IDE features. It had a pretty decent Vim mode too, no worse than Vintage.
4. Split panes were not great either, I need good keyboard shortcuts to open into vertical and horizontal splits quickly and easily or they are basically useless. Almost every new editor fails at this and makes me wonder if the developers have ever used a decently powerful editor.
If editor developers are not going to learn from the "good parts" of Vim and Emacs then I'm afraid we will never really move away from them.
I don't even use a fraction of the power available to me from Vim yet, but to switch editors I have to be able to find sufficient functionality to make up for what I do use. Believe me I'd love to find an editor other than Vim that works for me.
Am I missing something or is this essentially a donation based model? Are there missing features in the "evaluation version"? I don't mean to sound like a troll or anything but why would I pay for this if I have the option to use the full product for free? (besides possibly feeling guilty)
Edit: Strike that. Nothing in their EULA expresses this. It simply seems like an open-ended "trial period." So, yes, it appears they're sticking to the guilt model, but unlike WinRAR, won't bug you about it.
Based on the great reviews of ST2, I switched from vim to ST2 (with vintage mode) a few months ago. It seems good... but it hasn't lived up to the reviews for me. I'm guessing I'm missing some of the functionality. Is there a tutorial anywhere to show me what I'm missing? How have you learned about ST2 features (rather than just repeating your old editing habits in a new program)?
The 9 reasons to use Sublime is a good start point: http://1p1e1.tumblr.com/post/14262857223/9-reasons-you-must-...
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Maybe take a look at VintageEx: https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx I'm not sure if search/replace is included but if not you could open an issue and maybe someone adds it. :)
Thanks man, that does indeed add working search/replace! Giving Sublime a whirl now. If nothing else it's going to be an interesting discovery of which Vim features I really use in my daily workflow. Edit: Sadly bumped right into the next issue. It seems in addition to the lack of Vim's visual-block-mode the native multi-select (Ctrl-Shift-L) doesn't work in vintage either. No multi-line editing at all is a bit of a…
I just tried Sublime 2 and I must admit I don't "get it." It seems like a basic editor with several features which Notepad++ already had. Specifically for programming I cannot see why you would use this as opposed to something like Visual Studio with its context aware auto-complete (massive productivity increase). But then again I also don't get why someone would use Vim or Emacs when you have GUI based tools availab…
Solving the problem at hand in a good way is usually far slower than editing the text in my experience. Maybe I'd think different about that if I went back to using C++, or were coding in Java or another verbose language, but thankfully I don't have to.
But the bigger reason is: They are GUI apps. I do 99% of my work over ssh connections to servers where I have lots of screens open and waiting for me to attach with all the state I want ready and waiting no matter which machine I happen to connect from.
I have shortcuts for a dozen machines or so on my desktop that throws me straight into a screen over ssh, and even in the two cases where those machines are across the Atlantic for me, my screen with my editor windows is open faster than any IDE I've tried will open locally on my machine.
Being limited to local editor-state seems to me to be a huge step backwards.
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Command-T gives you similar functionality in Vim. It's great. https://github.com/wincent/Command-T
CtrlP is newer and is arguably much better than Command-T https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
Based on the great reviews of ST2, I switched from vim to ST2 (with vintage mode) a few months ago. It seems good... but it hasn't lived up to the reviews for me. I'm guessing I'm missing some of the functionality. Is there a tutorial anywhere to show me what I'm missing? How have you learned about ST2 features (rather than just repeating your old editing habits in a new program)?
For me, at least when I tried the beta, the sore points where: 1. The linting plugin support was woefully broken and often hung up the editor, that may be better now, but it seems to be a single thread for all plugins. For Vim I use syntastic and find it works great. 2. Visual mode (using vintage) isn't great, block selection pretty much didn't work. There was a plugin that could do multiselect based on regex, but fo…