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I still like Sublime Text

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by panza »

eastbound wrote: post #5
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.

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 often see downvotes when people criticise ST's pricing, but I mostly agree with the detractors - the price always seems to be just a few bucks over the magical limit I'd be willing to pay.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by 0x073 »

eastbound wrote: post #5
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.

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

Yes

I liked sublime text, but 65$ per year you can get the jet brain ide you need and it already includes most things you need and depends not on plugins from third party.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by beAbU »

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…

I reckon all text editors are some form of a Swiss army knife.

IDE-ajacent text editors like VSCode et al are more like those ridiculous fat one with everything in it [1], and Sublime is the elegant model with only a blade and can opener, but the blade and can opener are both really good.

And then you get Microsoft Notepad, one of those shitty metal nail files that seemingly everyone's wife has in the bottom of her handbag.

1 - https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp...

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by submeta »

kstrauser wrote: post #40
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.

Yeah, it‘s from another era. The concept of beatiful code came up with TextMate, Sublime, VS Code. And old editors tried to catch up, but didn’t really make it.

But I have a nice-ish theme in BBEdit for markdown, and I‘m ok. I don’t code in it. Just plain text editing, using it as a scratchpad. It’s open all day long.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by coldtea »

eastbound wrote: post #5
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.

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

$100 for 7 developers is "Awfully expensive"?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by WD-42 »

bayindirh wrote: post #50
WD-42 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's GPL. How is the license not the best?

See the attached CLA [0] and Privacy Policy [1]. [0]: https://zed.dev/cla [1]: https://zed.dev/privacy-policy

And yet, ST is closed source. Still a wild comparison.

This isn’t just license preference either. I would imagine the efforts of the sublime lsp people would be greatly eased if they had access to the source.

But nah zed bad because cla.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by makapuf »

0x073 wrote: post #53
eastbound wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes I liked sublime text, but 65$ per year you can get the jet brain ide you need and it already includes most things you need and depends not on plugins from third party.

What it does not include is the hefty PC needed for it to run compared to sublime.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by suby »

fabiensanglard wrote: post #8

I wrote all my articles and three books with it. I love Sublime Text :) !

I also like using Sublime as a text editor for my thoughts and notes. I don't need or want anything full fledged like a word processor. Sublime lets me write in a minimal format without distraction. Every action is instant and I'm not sure what I'd even change if given the chance.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by dmi3 »

Using Sublime Text since version 2, one of my relatively recent discoveries has been the Markdown Images Plugin[1], which renders images inline (rather than in a separate preview, as other editors do).

I find it extremely convenient to include images alongside text, such as diagrams and schematics for work, photos of goods in a shopping list, and inspiration collections for hobby projects, etc.

When combined with a simple web clipper script[2], it has been a game changer for me.

[1]: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Markdown%20Images

[2]: https://github.com/dmi3/bin/blob/master/url-preview-md.py

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