I still like textmate and use it daily, together with heavy IDEs, imo best multiline editing and search in large codebase
As do I. TextMate is still unbeatable, especially after I added Copilot and LSP to it!
I still like Sublime Text
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Re: I still like Sublime Text
#132Sublime rules. I started my career with Brackets, then Sublime, then Atom for a short while. Then switched to VS Code for a few years and just recently switched back to Sublime because of how slow VS Code became. Also great pricing! One time purchase for Sublime is still available in 2025!
Where is one time purchase available? The only option I see is $99 for three years.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#133Maybe it's time I migrated off TextMate.
Is TextMate still being maintained? Last time I looked, there were very few signs of life. If that is accurate, the clock is ticking until Apple inevitably drops Rosetta support on Apple Silicon Macs sometime in the (probably not too distant) future.
it is Apple Silicon native
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#134I'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.
How do you prettify it in Sublime?
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#135Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
Sublime Text team, thank you so much for creating the best tool out there! I truly appreciate the stability and simplicity of your product.
My main request is to add a tool similar to Cursor Composer and Chat. Thank you again!
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#136Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011.
I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim...) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the remote development experience.
I work in AI so we typically work over SSH on machines with big GPUs. Most of my colleagues use VSCode because it has a very good Remote Development extension.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#137Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
Please fix the bug if possible with Sublime Merge where the UI just becomes completely unresponsive... it always happens due to using it on a workspace and its so annoying to force close and reopen it every day! I love sublime merge otherwise!
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#138Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
For starters, I love the licensing, as it is very fair: I bought a personal license and I can take it to as many machines as I have (I do use many different computers). And you can buy it one time, no silly monthly subscription fees. As a result, Sublime ist the only commercial (locally installed) software I still use, and it is always open. There are situations, where I use macros, regex substitutions, or browsing t…
> but I immediately lost an important file
Zed has an "autosave" setting, it's just off by default.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#139Sublime rules. I started my career with Brackets, then Sublime, then Atom for a short while. Then switched to VS Code for a few years and just recently switched back to Sublime because of how slow VS Code became. Also great pricing! One time purchase for Sublime is still available in 2025!
Where is one time purchase available? The only option I see is $99 for three years.
The license does not expire after 3 years, it is perpetual, but it doesn't apply to versions released more than 3 years after your purchase. If you don't want any newer features or fixes you can simply turn off updates. We warn you before updating to a version not covered by your license.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#140I'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.
How do you prettify it in Sublime?
There's plugins like this: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Pretty%20JSON
There are others, this is the first that appears on a search. Sublime's package control makes it really easy to find tools like this. Another favorite is the one that renames the currently opened file.