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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by lessnonymous »

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…

Wow .. wouldn't it be nice to get the diff lines highlighted in ST3. Then you get theirs/mine option on each line (with an 'all' option of course).

Surely not hard to implement (if it's easy to say, it's easy to code, right??)

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by cowsaysoink »

Stealth- wrote: post #21

Coming from someone who has never used or tried Sublime Text, how does this compare to Vim in general? It's taken quite a while to grow familiar with Vim, is it worth the learning curve to ditch it now and try Sublime? Are the two really that different? A lot of what I'm seeing looks like things that can be done in Vim, but I might be missing something.

You can use a vim emulation mode in sublime so all your hard work wasn't for nothing but I believe some of the more advanced vim features don't work in sublime.

The advantage of sublime is that it works well out of the box and with package control it is very easy to install any package you may need.

If you decide to give it a try, try sublime 2 with package control (I believe the trial is still free for sublime 2).

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#34

Post by [deleted] »

scottbartell wrote: post #25
dorianj wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase. Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.

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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#35

Post by georgemcbay »

I'm a Sublime Text 2 owner, but the continued lack of a Linux/ARM build nor any announced plans for the same mean I won't be upgrading. It is a shame because I like the editor a lot, but if it doesn't work on all the platforms I use it ultimately has zero value to me.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#36

Post by [deleted] »

scottbartell wrote: post #25
dorianj wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase. Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.

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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#37

Post by cowsaysoink »

dmix wrote: post #23
Stealth- wrote: post #21

Coming from someone who has never used or tried Sublime Text, how does this compare to Vim in general? It's taken quite a while to grow familiar with Vim, is it worth the learning curve to ditch it now and try Sublime? Are the two really that different? A lot of what I'm seeing looks like things that can be done in Vim, but I might be missing something.

I'm a vim/textmate user and I found sublimes UX to be lacking polish and the UI overall needed work. I like textmates uniform OSX style and VIMs uniform terminal style, using the "Tomorrow" theme on both [1]. Although I'm also a part designer so the aesthetics matter to me as much as functionality. If you're measuring functionality I can't imagine sublimes better than VIM. [1] https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow…

If you didn't like the UI you could install Soda theme: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

scottbartell wrote: post #25
dorianj wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase. Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.

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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

#39

Post by dmix »

cowsaysoink wrote: post #37
dmix wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a vim/textmate user and I found sublimes UX to be lacking polish and the UI overall needed work. I like textmates uniform OSX style and VIMs uniform terminal style, using the "Tomorrow" theme on both [1]. Although I'm also a part designer so the aesthetics matter to me as much as functionality. If you're measuring functionality I can't imagine sublimes better than VIM. [1] https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow…

If you didn't like the UI you could install Soda theme: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

I've installed the Tomorrow theme in Sublime which I love in txtmate/VIM and still wasn't a fan.
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