Earlier quoted context omitted.
Case in point, right off the bat.. Package Control's print statements are going to have to go and urllib2 was deprecated. :)
I started work prepping for Python 3 a little while ago at https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/tree/split_... , however the actual Python 3 changes are in progress and have yet to be committed.
Sublime Text 3 Beta
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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#202Version 3 is probably where I get off the ST upgrade train and just settle for version 2/3 beta. I like ST, and it serves my needs well enough, but I already paid $59 for this software and that's enough for a text editor. Paying yet another $30 isn't worth it for me, especially when I didn't ask for these upgrades.
> I already paid $59 for this software and that's enough for a text editor This only makes sense if: (a) I guess you're not a software developer, so you don't actually "make money" from the productivity increases of a text-editor good for you? or (b) you plan to switch to some other editor that's open-source (emacs? vim?) or (c) you're and IDE guy and rarely use a "simple" text editor. Please mention your use case be…
Badically, I'm content with my $59 purchase (it's sturdy software that never gives me grief) but wouldn't eek another $30 of value from it.
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#203Here's what I'd love someone to organize: A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay the ST developer to make ST open-source. If ST becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with ST, especially those coming from a vim/emacs background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#204I'm not near a computer at the moment, can any body tell me how the performance is with very large files (>20mb) compared to the previous releases? If there was one thing that disappointed me about ST2 it was that it wasn't very competent with massive log files and the like. ATM I use an ide for Java, ST2 for nearly everything else (other languages, random text) and less / vi / others for logs and other massive files…
"How well large files are supported is mostly a function of the syntax definition being used. Sublime Text 3 does have performance improvements compared to Sublime Text 2 here, but not significantly so."
Big disappointment for a lot of us.
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#205Here's what I'd love someone to organize: A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay the ST developer to make ST open-source. If ST becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with ST, especially those coming from a vim/emacs background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.
Here's what I'd love someone to organize: A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay Microsoft to make Windows open-source. If Windows becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with Windows, especially those coming from a Linux background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.
A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay The Government to make Everything Free.
If Everything becomes free, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with The Government, especially those coming from a Poor background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.
Anything sounds ridiculous at scale
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#206Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#207I personally find the 70$ price tag rather high for a text editor. However, this is not my main issue For this premium price I do not only expect features but as well documentation and if you are a plugin developer the current ST2 documentation is just plain bad because it misses too much. In addition, even though ST2 is highly configurable nowhere are all the options explained that you can use and manually set. I fi…
I just don't see the differences between the two being enough to justify me spending that amount of money, especially not when I'm doing just fine with Sublime Text 2 (and yes, yes, the old Hammer being used as a screwdriver argument will inevitably pop up now I've said that) and have no real reason to switch.
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#208Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#209Coming 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.
What I liked: well, I didn't actually like anything beside the ease of modifying/adding keybindings.
Some of what I didn't like:
* The whole UI felt wrong from alpha to omega and overly gimmicky: the whole thing relied too much on the mouse and the things that relied completely on the mouse like the options in the search panel were poorly sized/designed. The many roundrects and shades and gradients created a mess that left a very bad impression.
* The underlying engine is very poorly used by ST: just activating vintage mode is enough to tap a lot deeper than the default UI lets you. The engine is great but it only shines when you try to use it as another app. That's weird.
Using Vim is a spoiler, I guess.
I can't reasonably tell you to not make the switch. I have no idea what knowledge you have of Vim but I can say that I find Vim not only extremelly more powerful than ST but also a lot better designed on almost all fronts.
Once the beauty of subsitutions, :global, ranges, Ex commands, text-objects and motions is ingrained in your brain, using ST2 may feel like using (a pretty) TextEdit. Hell, even folding is nicer in Vim.
In the last year, I had the impression that a bunch of people blogged about their decision to switch to ST2 from Vim. Each time, I felt that the blogger didn't use much of Vim to begin with so switching may have made some kind of sense. If you are reasonnably advanced, I don't think there's any reason to switch.
Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't argue that its "clever". Its a direct and honest way of asking people to pay for Sublime Text. I'm happy to pay Jon as long as he keeps cranking out fast, high-quality software. Think of it as a subscription where you still own the software if you want to get out of it.
It's not a direct and honest way of asking people to pay for Sublime Text - it's an indirect way of asking people to continue to pay for something they thought they'd already bought. I paid for Sublime Text 2 with the expectation of continued support of the quality we had during beta, but instead we have waited months for bug fixes which have never arrived. ST2 was essentially abandoned after it left beta, and now we…