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Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by clhodapp »

jseliger wrote: post #70
seclorum wrote: post #6

An 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…

In Vim, you can bind several windows to scroll together by doing :scrollbind in each. It's a bit more manual than what you do in Emacs, but you could use this and some :vsplit'ing to achieve a result similar to the follow mode described at your link (though I'm not sure if Vim has the learning curve you're after).

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by swah »

ckdarby wrote: post #120
wyck wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are several problems with sublime especially as an IDE, for 60 bucks I don't see how I can justify not having: A decent linter. Auto-complete is really shabby. Find and search, also sub-par. No separate console window. Though it does have some good parts. Map view Speed Multi-select

Good sir are you sure we're talking about the same sublime? As in sublime 2? There's brilliant plugins for decent linter & auto-complete; If you didn't install package manager you didn't spend enough time with sublime. Stating find & search is sub-par in my opinion means you must have honestly spent less than a day utilizing the program. Search: Ctrl+P Ctrl+shift+p ctrl+f ctrl+shift+f ctrl+shift+f alt+r (Supports reg…

I wish those plugins worked on plain Windows (were written in C++ or Python), but they mostly depend on external utilities. (In other words: there aren't things like Emacs' js2-mode that really are native to Emacs and will work everywhere).

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by leif »

lordlarm wrote: post #124

Hm, 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.

Not everyone has the privilege of working on interesting things. Consider yourself lucky.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by drbawb »

lordlarm wrote: post #130
mdonahoe wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Can I ask why you disable the swap file?

As someone with a computer that is horribly unstable (in the process of replacing it over the course of next month), the swap file has saved my ass on a few occasions.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by Derbasti »

davidwparker wrote: post #34

Question: I'm an Emacs user, and haven't checked out ST or ST2. Is it comparable in terms of flexibility++?

It is great! It really is! Give it a shot just to see what we Emacsens are missing.

But if you're like me... Well, Emacs is a way of life and it does a whole lot more than just editing text. I would love to have smooth scrolling and multiple cursors and slick animations and a cursor that can be off-screen. But at the end of the day, I prefer magit and org-mode and keyboard-only navigation and macros and so on. It still is awesome though. Do give it a try!

Maybe in a few decades it will have accumulated enough awesomeness to compare to our beloved Emacs.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by kaffeinecoma »

jpeterson wrote: post #115
kaffeinecoma wrote: post #37

As an Intellij user (and Emacs way before that) I'm trying to give this a chance, but I see no way to click-navigate through source code. Am I missing something? I tried installing SublimeCodeIntel, and that lets me (occasionally) navigate to symbols in the current file. But I don't seem to be able to click through to symbols defined in other files/classes. Am I missing something fundamental, or is this strictly the…

Why do you want to use your mouse while coding?

I don't- but for discoverability purposes, I'm more likely to find success by clicking on a method name than by randomly pawing keyboard shortcuts. Once discovered, I'll happily take the shortcut.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by lloeki »

lordlarm wrote: post #124

Hm, 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.

From colors to text objects, most of my vim config/plugins is not about speed but about reducing strain (which has the positive side effect of enhancing speed)

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by notJim »

nicholassmith wrote: post #82
dbecker wrote: post #60

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-...

That list is missing multiple cursors, which as far as I'm concerned, is the only reason to use ST2 and not vim.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by tylermenezes »

lordlarm wrote: post #124

Hm, 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.

It's certainly possible to write code without a good editor, but a good editor simplifies a lot of tasks which get in the way of writing good code.

Re: Sublime Text 2.0 Released

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Post by amatsukawa »

Pretty season's Vim user here. This editor looks awesome, and I would love to give it a whirl, but I feel like I can't switch without these plugins. I'm sure they exist, if someone could point me to one that would be excellent.

+ Syntastic [https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/] eclipse-like real-time linter. Gives me compile errors and warnings.

+ Tag bar [http://majutsushi.github.com/tagbar/] navigate tags in the code

+ Not as essential, but EasyMotion is pretty awesome [https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion]

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