I can totally understand that. Why only one? I still use BBEdit on my Mac for all kinds of text editing (search/replace across files is excellent in it), even though I mainly use VS Code as IDE and Emacs for orgmode and automation via Elisp.
I still like Sublime Text
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#22My files are on a NAS using Samba, and Sublime Text constantly does something (maybe it tries to poll the directory?) that makes it hang for around 10 seconds every minute, making it unusable.
VS Code does nothing of the sort, it has plugins for any language imaginable; it's much faster and much better IMHO.
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#23there can only be one true editor
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#24Sublime Text is _the_ Swiss knife of all text editors:
- Loads up fast, supports tons of very useful packages (e.g. TextPastry, SQLTools), extremely customisable.
- Multi-cursors, multi-panes (e.g. with Origami), spellcheckers, extremely fast filesystem integration/browsing/preview (whether with/without projects and workspaces), color/UI schemes, syntax highlighting, search browsers, Git support (particularly when used with Sublime Merge), etc.
Sure I love my Jetbrains IDEs and Vim, but nothing comes close; Sublime Text is in its own league.
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#25Sublime 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
That guy is living off that money, and Sublime is one of the best text editors out there. Consider it like a SaaS, but something doesn't break or stop when your license expires.
If you think the price doesn't reflect the value the software brings, then it's your choice, and that's fair. But as for the things it brings to the table, I don't think it's that expensive.
I pay similar for BBEdit, and it saves my bacon regularly. Plus it's dependable.
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#26I write everything on All About Berlin in a souped up version of Sublime Text. I made my own color scheme for Markdown files, my own linters for the content, a build system to run the static site generator etc. I love just how fast I can move across hundreds of Markdown files, finding and replacing thimgs with regular expressions. It’s a night and day improvement over editing text in a CMS.
I chose Sublime because it was blazing fast in my wee Macbook 12”, which I used until a year ago. Sublime Merge complements it really well.
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#27Sublime Text is _the_ Swiss knife of all text editors: - Loads up fast, supports tons of very useful packages (e.g. TextPastry, SQLTools), extremely customisable. - Multi-cursors, multi-panes (e.g. with Origami), spellcheckers, extremely fast filesystem integration/browsing/preview (whether with/without projects and workspaces), color/UI schemes, syntax highlighting, search browsers, Git support (particularly when us…
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#28This is the one app I use every day. I practically live in it. Most editors are slower and more visually cluttered, or pack so much functionality that I often get lost. Sublime strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and functionality. Probably Emacs or Vim are even more expressive, but I've never bothered to learn those, Sublime just packs enough power for me. The LSP plugins are a good addition to give Sublime the same code completion / AI functionality of other editors.
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#29Same. I tried zed but it doesn't come close.
Zed tries too hard to be magical, plus their license terms are not the best. Before anyone asks any further. See the CLA [0] and the Privacy Policy [1]. [0]: https://zed.dev/cla [1]: https://zed.dev/privacy-policy
I may see your first point, but how is GPL3 worse than a closed source software?
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#30Sublime was going great at some point and I guess the dev burned out churning new releases every week. So it got abandoned for a good amount of time.
Something like 2 years. At the same time Atom and VsCode came in with all the good ideas from Sublime.
I hope they made tens of millions during the height of its popularity.