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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 noname120 »

pell wrote: post #206
braggerxyz wrote: post #205

Maybe Sublime Text is good, but I refuse to pay for something as profane as a text editor. A decent editor (syntax highlighting, LSP, regex search, keybindings for the 21st century etc) needs to be part of every operarting system. For me nowadays, Lapce is quickly growing on me.

You can essentially use Sublime for free indefinitely. It shows you a prompt to buy a license for every few saves you make but that’s about it. Not invasive in my book. I also think people underestimate the amount of work that goes into building a good text editor and keeping it up to date over the years.

You can, but then the license explicitly forbids you from using it for commercial purposes.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james_in_the_uk »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #124
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a big hit for ST's popularity - next to the rise of Atom and VS Code - was its upgrade from version 3 to 4; are you considering to do that again or, if funds are required, do a different way to raise money?

With the new licensing model we no longer need to hold back changes and do major releases. Avoiding the big pause in updates was partly why it was changed.

It makes sense. As a mostly casual user I couldn’t justify the new model so have kept the previous version, which still works for my needs.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by vijaybritto »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Have y'all considered something like vscode's extension experience in sublime. The current one is not really intuitive or easier to setup

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by blibble »

laserbeam wrote: post #179
ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Is there any chance we'd see a Sublime Debug? Loved Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. The main thing I'm missing in my life is a really good and fast cross platform UI for a LOT of debugger backends. (I tend to works with a lot of programming languages, and CLI debuggers are really clunky to use).

I have found this plugin works surprisingly well

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Debugger

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by blibble »

redmandarin wrote: post #135
ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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!

as a paying customer I will stop renewing my license if AI slop generation appears in the product

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by sneak »

Kernel, compiler, text editor: all must be free software, with full source code and permissive licenses.

I will die on this hill.

Closed source editors (including VS Code) are simply nonstarters for me.

This is my toolchain, my job, my life, my hobby, my passion. The legal prohibition on modifying it is against every single thing I sit down at a computer to do.

It might sound snobbish, but if you can’t (or don’t) modify your #1 tool (your editor), are you really a hacker? What are you hacking on, and why, then?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by blibble »

nicoburns wrote: post #146
0x073 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

JetBrains runs a lot slower than sublime!

also now full of AI slop advertisements

I've stopped paying them as a result

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by yladiz »

bondarchuk wrote: post #210
jll29 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Both Sublime and Emacs always auto-save documents without explicit "save" action, so you can never lose anything. Unless, of course, you accidentally press "delete folder" instead of "remove folder from project" in the sidebar context menu.

As far as I’m aware it just goes to the bin, it’s not rm’d, so it is recoverable.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by privacyking »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

I bought sublime text 3 over a decade ago. What are the top new features of sublime text 4 that make it worth upgrading too?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by mixmix »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.
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