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Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by tiglionabbit »

looki wrote: post #13

"The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least" I can't be the only one who completely, utterly disagrees with this? I absolutely love the default theme and I think the icon looks great (much better than the alternative provided). That being said, I don't want to start a whole pointless discussion about taste here, it just kind of bothered me to read something like that in a blog post that talks abou…

Looking at the default icon a bit more closely, the gradient kind of messes with my eyes and makes the S look fuzzy. If you compare it to other common icons, you'll notice none of them transition quite so harshly that the gradient produces more contrast than the other shapes in the picture. The new icon provided simplifies it a lot, and makes the S more readable, but at the expense of throwing away any hint about what the app is for. I think it'd be best to just tweak the original icon's colors so it looks more clear, while keeping the keyboard key look to it.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by Helianthus »

pdog wrote: post #17
looki wrote: post #13

"The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least" I can't be the only one who completely, utterly disagrees with this? I absolutely love the default theme and I think the icon looks great (much better than the alternative provided). That being said, I don't want to start a whole pointless discussion about taste here, it just kind of bothered me to read something like that in a blog post that talks abou…

Yeah, I didn't understand this either. "Sublime's initial look leaves a lot to be desired." Really? I think it looks great. Here's another post that calls Sublime's default theme "pretty ugly" and "god-awful": http://floatleft.com/notebook/making-sublime-text-2-beautifu...

I love the icon. I don't have an opinion about the default theme except to say that part of the whole point of Sublime (to me) is to find a custom color theme for your code. It's like css for your workspace!

I use a modified Cobalt that has much more green in it. Honestly I love that Sublime allows you to fulfill that urge to express yourself while you're expressing yourself (yo dawg etc.).

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by ryanwhitney »

looki wrote: post #13

"The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least" I can't be the only one who completely, utterly disagrees with this? I absolutely love the default theme and I think the icon looks great (much better than the alternative provided). That being said, I don't want to start a whole pointless discussion about taste here, it just kind of bothered me to read something like that in a blog post that talks abou…

Funny to see that listed in the article. I've experienced the same thing. Had a lot of trouble hunting it down when switching apps. I've been using this replacement from Dmitry Svetlichny: http://dribbble.com/shots/468176-Sublime-Text-2-icon-you-can...

Don't absolutely love it, but after a month or so it's definitely helped me find the app easier.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by panabee »

what plugin do people use for highlighting brackets and parentheses? the default underline mode is faint and not very helpful. i have heard of one or two, but i'm curious to hear what people on HN use. thanks!

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by mixmastamyk »

foobar2k wrote: post #4
maccman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our coding guidelines at Stripe specify that whitespace is to be stripped. It works if everyone does it. On the occasion where whitespace does pollute the diff, GitHub has a convenient feature where you can append '?w=1' to any diff URL and whitespace changes will be omitted.

The number of pull requests I get where the diffs are completely unreadable because someone has this feature enabled is insane. On certain whitespace dependent languages (I'm looking at you Python) simply supressing the whitespace in the diff is not an option. What are the arguments for having whitespace removal as a coding standard?

Trimming at the end of line has no effect on python.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by s00pcan »

ricardobeat wrote: post #2

You shouldn't set "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true unless you work alone, otherwise you're going to have random whitespace changes polluting your diffs.

As opposed to having trailing whitespace and mixed tab/space whitespace polluting your diffs? Configure your diff viewer to ignore whitespace.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by snotrockets »

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs.

Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible.

You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years.

Fashionable editors come and go, but Emacs forever stands; and if there is one thing I don't think I'll be able to ever do again, is learn another set of editor shortcuts. Those I used were drilled there ~10 years ago, and I don't think they'll ever come out.

Also, author seems to take great deal about changing the editor theme and icon. Why should you ever care about that, outside a screenshot contest?

Editor should look good by rendering a nice font at a size you find comfortable, highlighted in colors you find easy on the eyes. If you look at the chrome, well, you're not spending enough effort editing.

[1] I'm not the one to start wars. vi might be just as good, but I'm not going to learn it this side of the river Styx.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by mtp0101 »

I find it odd that Sublime is so widely loved. It seems like a way-station between Notepad and Vim/Emacs. The extensions are nice, and the GUI is easy on the eyes, but it seems that most of my peers outgrew their Sublime Text/Notepad++/Textmate stage by the time they completed their first year of undergrad. I would hate to be stuck in the slow world of Sublime Text limbo as a result of being too lazy to learn and customize Vim/Emacs.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by panabee »

missing_cipher wrote: post #25
panabee wrote: post #24

what plugin do people use for highlighting brackets and parentheses? the default underline mode is faint and not very helpful. i have heard of one or two, but i'm curious to hear what people on HN use. thanks!

I'm using BracketHighlighter.

cool, thanks. that's one i saw before, but some people complained about performance degradation. have you seen any performance hit after installing the plug-in?
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