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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by BoredPositron » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC

mieses wrote: post #27

knighthack wrote: post #24

Sublime 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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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by niwtsol » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC

sharkjacobs wrote: post #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.

This is my use case as well - large .csv's, scratch pad, pasting some bug error message in a cleaner format - Sublime is perfect for that IMO.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by saagarjha » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:21 AM UTC

mediumsmart wrote: post #23

there can only be one true editor

Careful, the ed fans are not to be trifled with

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by al_borland » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:21 AM UTC

sharkjacobs wrote: post #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.

I’ve had VS Code crash on me (repeatedly) with very large text files. Sublime is able to handle these files, even if it has to chunk on them for a while, if I do something silly like try to edit with several thousand cursors, but it will still do it.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by BoredPositron » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:22 AM UTC

vollbrecht wrote: post #29

bayindirh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Corps usually have problems with gpl software being used.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by bigstrat2003 » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:23 AM UTC

Sublime is just great software. It does everything I could possibly ever want an editor to do, and it does it with half the memory usage of VS Code. I like VS Code well enough, but I can't abide resource waste like that, especially when it doesn't actually buy me anything.

Honestly, I use Sublime because nothing else can compare. Everything else is slow, bloated, worse to use, or some combination of the above.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by al_borland » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:24 AM UTC

notepad0x90 wrote: post #3

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.

I paid for a license on one of the versions. I initially got upset when there was a major release that auto-updated and I got the pop up. However, I looked at my purchase date and it was so many years ago, and I was able to roll back to the version I paid for, so I definitely got my money’s worth. I didn’t end up buying the newer version, because work was forcing me onto VS Code.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by stonegray » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:24 AM UTC

ad-astra wrote: post #9

Love how lightweight and fast it is. Use it every day!

I recall a few times accidentally opening GB-sized files and sublime having no perceptable performance impact. Sublime is stupendously performant.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by vijaybritto » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:25 AM UTC

eknkc wrote: post #30

Sublime 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.

They are a company and they are still good. They changed their licensing model for v4 onwards. I have been using it for most of my note keeping and lite code editing tasks and its excellent as always. I think they can still get back to the old hype if they choose to use typescript for their plugin system. A lot of vscode plugins can be ported that way I hope

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by kstrauser » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:25 AM UTC

submeta wrote: post #21

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 love BBEdit, but it has one limitation that drives me batty: it has far fewer syntax highlighting scopes than many other editors. It’s simply not possible to make it as pretty and color as others, and that’s something I personally value. I have to look at a code editor all day, and I want it to look snazzy.

I know it’s minor and petty, but it stills grates on me every time I fire it up.