I know most of the people using ST2 are apple or linux users. It's good for a windows user?
It's a pleasure to work with on Windows.. not to mention probably the most aesthetically pleasing text editor you can find.
Sublime Text 2.0 Released
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Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever watched somebody proficient with Vim or Emac, who has spent years crafting the perfect .vimrc for themselves? You'd get it if you did.
And why would I want to spend years crafting the perfect .vimrc for myself when tools exist that already do 80% of that better and without any configuration? I say this with a carefully crafted and organized .vim folder.
Because that last 20% is 80% of the power/speed/productivity.
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#123Am 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)
It just wants you to be a nice person. I appreciate that.
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#124Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins?
At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.
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#125An absolutely joyful piece of software. I love it so much, I bought it right away. Plus, where else can you experience such a pleasant multiplatform situation? Great Job!
I like it too. The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol... . It's 2012, I'm using a 27" monitor, and yet I can't find this feature, or one like it, in anything other than emacs, which has a learning curve far too steep for my pretty simple needs. At one point, the Textmate website mentioned that a follow-mode-li…
I'm not sure what use follow mode is but it doesn't seem to complicated, you might be able to implement a plugin that does it.
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#126Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins? At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.
Now I'm curious. What 15 lines do you use?
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#127Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins? At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.
You'd think that :) It's not about writing code though in my case, but marking things up as HTML. Multiple cursors help a lot here.
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#128Serendipitous, as I'm planning on doing a lightning talk on ST2 tonight.
Editors seem to raise a lot of religious issues, and not to totally discount the distinctions that can be made between them, but I think it's more important to know your editor well than to worry about "the best editor." (If such a thing exists.) As Hunt & Thomas say in The Pragmatic Programmer: "use a single editor well."[1] You'll be most productive if you learn your editor from head to toe, than if you half-assedly know several. That takes some effort and conscious practice, sitting down and memorizing key combinations and the like. And a cursory glance at any editor might leave you unimpressed until you've gotten somewhat fluent with its features.
Just a couple of suggestions if you do use ST2:
+ get package control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control/installati...
+ For rails, a couple of nice packages are RubyTest and SimpleRailsNav
+ Learn the multi-edit commands
+ Familiarize yourself with cmd-P/ctrl-P (osx/win)
+ Keyboard shortcuts: WIN: https://gist.github.com/1925069 OSX: https://gist.github.com/1207002, or look at Default (OS).sublime-keymap
[1] I would amend that to add "and also know vim at least a little" for stuff like sshing in to servers and whatnot.
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#129Can I just say I love the pricing model. It's paid software, with an unenforced 'trial period'. Relying on coders who use a text editor all day and appreciate good software and want to compensate someone for their good software. +1 humans.
I agree. It would be great to see some revenue numbers, if it's really successful (which I think it is), it would be a nice model for other developers or software companies.
I'm not sure about that. Developers tend to be more sensible about paying for software. Regular people will just download it without reading the "yada yada" stuff about paying.
Case in point: WinRAR, anyone?
EDIT: Just to clarify, I like the pricing model too. I just don't think it works for software in general.
Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released
#130Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins? At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.
Now I'm curious. What 15 lines do you use?
Something like this: https://gist.github.com/2996793 (16 lines, but you get the point).