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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#14

Post by rogerbinns »

My pet peeve with editors is how they handle files changing underneath them. I do this regularly enough (eg I might make a quick change using vi, source control update), there could be ssh or sshfs involved, or another tool might be better for doing whatever it is that I wanted.

Emacs has been the only editor that has never lost a change for me. Whenever you try to make a modification it checks the underlying file is as expected, and tells you if not. I tried SL2 and it quite happily ignored the fact that the file had changed. I'm also evaluating AppCode and it has perhaps the worst behaviour - it silently updates the editor window. But some of the time it doesn't notice the change and hence overwrites it. Consequently you can't trust the editor.

gedit also notices changes proactively (compared to emacs' reactively) but I don't use it regularly.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#15

Post by Stealth- »

rogerbinns wrote: post #14

My pet peeve with editors is how they handle files changing underneath them. I do this regularly enough (eg I might make a quick change using vi, source control update), there could be ssh or sshfs involved, or another tool might be better for doing whatever it is that I wanted. Emacs has been the only editor that has never lost a change for me. Whenever you try to make a modification it checks the underlying file is…

Vim produces a warning whenever you focus on the window, asking if you want to keep your current work or load the changed file. If you keep your work, it reminds you yet again if you attempt to save over the changed file, just in case.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#16

Post by dorianj »

scottbartell wrote: post #11

> The price for a Sublime Text license key has increased by $11 to $70, the first price rise in Sublime Text’s five year history That's a pretty big jump. Not saying it's not worth it.

I was thinking the opposite. I'm glad he's charging for upgrades, and charging a decent price for something some developers use all day everyday. I hope this will enable him to continue developing ST.

I'm growing fairly dependent on plugins, though -- I hope the new API isn't too hard for plugin devs to upgrade. Although with most plugins hosted on Github these days, compat is just a pull request away.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

rogerbinns wrote: post #14

My pet peeve with editors is how they handle files changing underneath them. I do this regularly enough (eg I might make a quick change using vi, source control update), there could be ssh or sshfs involved, or another tool might be better for doing whatever it is that I wanted. Emacs has been the only editor that has never lost a change for me. Whenever you try to make a modification it checks the underlying file is…

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