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i pay 30$ every month for SAAS apps that provide even less value.
I'm not sure "I waste money in even more ridiculous ways" is necessarily a good defense.
I'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…
Sadly, in the announcement comments, John says this: "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.
If I work with many small SQL/XML/whatever files, then I want it to look pretty; but if I open a 100+ mb datadump, then Sublime should be able to open it as plain text without waiting for half an hour.
There are valid text files floating around with sizes above 1gb - why shouldn't I be able to open it, run searches and browse the contents? The computing power can do it, you can map it to memory if needed, I can spare 10gb ram if working on that size of data; but it needs to work reasonably fast.
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Textmate 2 is open source now and I've been using it as my primary text editor for the last couple of months. It's become really solid and it's definitely worth a look (if you're on Mac).
I'm not on a Mac.
unless you.on_a_mac
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Yep, my thoughts exactly. Sublime is one of the few pieces of software that I rely on that has not only never let me down (so far!), but has really pleasantly surprised me on several occasions, saving my ass when I thought I'd just lost a lot of work.
Would you care to give some examples? I am genuinely curious!
- I run it on Linux, and had an unstable distribution for a while. I had a couple of occasions where the OS hard-locked, but on reboot Sublime started right back up to its last state -- including unwritten changes to multiple files.
- During a move to a new distribution, once I got my old /home remounted, Sublime amazingly did the right thing and again reloaded all of its state from the last operating system. I was expecting to have to re-open 30+ tabs/files and redo all of my user settings. Nope, Sublime did the right thing again.
- An update on my current OS has caused a problem with fuse which is causing my development directory to get unmounted on a regular basis. Sublime doesn't have a problem with this; any files that it loaded from the now-unavailable mount point are still there, the content is still all there, it doesn't freak out, it just marks the file as dirty (letting me know I need to remount that directory again).
- An rsync went afoul and nuked a pile of changes to a local development copy of a site. I was able to retrieve a bunch of my work from Sublime's open tabs.
None of these things are really examples of brilliant new engineering, but, in my experience they're all the kinds of details that too many other programs don't get right. Sublime just always seems to do what I would expect software to do in 2013.
That, plus ctrl-D is beautiful.
If I had to think of something I don't like about it, about the only things would be that occasionally the autocompletion is a nuisance, and occasionally I'll need to open a really really big file and a plugin causes it to stall for a bit. It sounds like the latter problem has been taken care of now in v3.
If Sublime were a bro, I'd always buy his beer. Instead, I'll be more than happy to pay the upgrade price.
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Sadly, in the announcement comments, John says this: "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.
It would be a couple of lines to check if the file is above some limit and offer an option to open it without the syntax definition applied. If I work with many small SQL/XML/whatever files, then I want it to look pretty; but if I open a 100+ mb datadump, then Sublime should be able to open it as plain text without waiting for half an hour. There are valid text files floating around with sizes above 1gb - why shouldn…
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I know. I was just poking some fun at TextMate. TM2 was delayed by what, 6 years? One can't not joke about that. I actually use TextMate 1.5 more than I use Sublime Text. Unfortunately, TextMate 1.5 was never open-sourced and TextMate 2 broke plugins designed for 1.5. So for me, it is abandonware. :(
TM2 was delayed by what, 6 years? One can't not joke about that. Considering that the author clearly went through serious burnout during that time, no, I would not joke about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388905
I am disappointed to see that Vintage mode hasn't really been touched at all for this edition. It's what is holding myself (and likely others) back from switching away from Vim. Unfortunately, development of Vintage mode seems to have stopped (the repository hasn't changed for about six months).
As someone who only used IDE debuggers all his (short) programming career, I was wondering, how do you debug without a visual debugger? I've seen how GDB works, and debugging this way seems much less productive. You don't see your whole source code, and you don't constantly see the values of watched or local variables, etc... Is there a different debugger you use for this task when developing using only a text editor…
> OSX: 10.7 or later is required Looks like I might have to bite the upgrade bullet this year.
I eventually bit the bullet and bought a new Mac. But TM2 never came and I paid thousands of euros for nothing.
Since then I've moved to Linux at home and I use Vim everywhere. For some reason, I can't imagine being unable to build Vim 7.4 on this machine.
And now that I feel very comfortable in Vim, I can't imagine switching to ST or back to TM.
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It would be a couple of lines to check if the file is above some limit and offer an option to open it without the syntax definition applied. If I work with many small SQL/XML/whatever files, then I want it to look pretty; but if I open a 100+ mb datadump, then Sublime should be able to open it as plain text without waiting for half an hour. There are valid text files floating around with sizes above 1gb - why shouldn…
I suspect the slowdown when opening a 100mb .txt file is not really in syntax parsing - it's "Plain Text", no syntax definition attached.
Turning syntax off helps; simply it's a real pain to switch it on/off manually every time, as I'm working both with small and large files of the same type. I'd like the software to do that automagically based on file size or loading time estimates.