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I still like Sublime Text

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

#11

Sublime Text is so awesome, I don't mind it's constant begging for a license purchase or whatever. It's right up there with Winrar.

And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way. Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

Software you like for the equivlaent of 0-2 hours of that dev's pay seems worth it.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#12
I'm happy with just fast, multiple cursors, plugins -> syntax highlighting. Sometimes I paste a JSON dump in there to prettify it.

I refer to a lot of tools as knives, but Sublime Text is the chopping block.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#14

Sublime Text is so awesome, I don't mind it's constant begging for a license purchase or whatever. It's right up there with Winrar.

And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way. Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

I think Sublime Text was the first software I ever paid for. It has paid that back handsomely. And no, I’m not doing the usual “I’m a working professional so my time is directly attributable to my text editor” thing. I understand there are free options. I pay for it despite there being competition because of the extra value it brings me.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#17
I guess your love is not unlike my long ago passion for CodeWright. It was such a flexible beast with perfect support for BRIEF bindings and an infinitely configurable user interface. Alas, the world preferred the simplicity of Visual Studio or JBuilder and the best programmer's editor for Windows slowly but surely withered away.

I'm not planning on repeating the mistake of learning a complex environment only to see it disappear with the demise of its parent company. That's why these days I'm mostly investing time in the Emacs ecosystem while occasionally trying and failing to love mode based setups like vim and neovim.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#18

I often get asked why I still use Sublime. So I wrote this article singing it's praises.

I never get asked. It’s obvious. Just open a 4Gb log file as a developer. All my developers have it.

I only keep sublime text around for opening +500mb dumps, everything else was moved to vscode years ago.

Anything more than 500mb and I switch to less for instant reading/searching and sed for instant find/replace.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#20
Sublime does everything that I want to do with it.

What I do with it is throw arbitrary text files at it, and do quick text manipulations, especially multi cursor edits. I’m sure I could do this stuff just as well with something else, but I’d have to relearn my muscle memory.

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