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Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by recursive »

mtp0101 wrote: post #29

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 cus…

It shouldn't be that surprising. I tried vim for a while, but I prefer sublime text. It's true that vim is more powerful, but for me that power seems to mostly theoretical. It doesn't seem to make me significantly faster in the real world. On the other hand, the basic text navigation keys in sublime text are the same as they are elsewhere in my os, so I don't have to switch in and out of "text editing mode" frequently. In any case, congratulations on advanced text editing learning curve.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by Camillo »

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 think ST2's chrome is functionally bad, rather than aesthetically, and I'm not sure it can be fixed with themes. The way the sidebar and the tab bar interact to show which document is active can be extremely confusing.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by andrethegiant »

One setting I find invaluable is to use Paste and Indent for ⌘V instead of the standard Paste. This adjusts your indentation to automatically match the context it's pasted in.

To do this, put the following in your Key Bindings - User file:

  [
    { "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" }, 
    { "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste" } 
  ]

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by adamors »

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…

The default colorscheme is indeed god awful. There's a nice Desert theme for it though http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=863

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by FuzzyDunlop »

mtp0101 wrote: post #29

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 cus…

I used Sublime for a while, then switched to Emacs for a while. I ended up switching back because, while I really liked Emacs, I didn't like being stuck in a terminal and I couldn't do effective pair programming.

The best bit about Emacs is the configuration, and I could give or take the awkward keybindings. Maybe if LightTable supported configuration with ClojureScript and offered a comprehensive API for it there'd be a more modern equivalent.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by Silhouette »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #26
foobar2k wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context 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.

But other whitespace does, so globally disabling whitespace in a diff isn't very helpful.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by adamors »

mtp0101 wrote: post #29

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 cus…

I found ST2 a great tool for learning Vim actually. It has a Vim mode and although it's not a complete Vim emulation it gets most of the movement/editing right with key bindings.

I've learned a lot and I'm actually at a point where I feel the need to move on to Vim (due to the limitations of ST2's mimicry of Vim)

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by Silhouette »

mtp0101 wrote: post #29

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 cus…

I find it odd that Emacs is so widely loved. It seems like a way-station between Notepad and a proper text editor that fits in with all the other software on my system, using familiar keyboard and mouse commands so I can get things done instead of having to look up arcane rituals worthy of Git to do any moderately powerful editing task and learning a failed programming language to do any sort of scripting or customisation instead of using a modern one I already know. I would hate to be stuck in the slow world of Emacs limbo because it took so damn long to customise everything instead of just setting it up in a few minutes and then getting on with real work.

Disclaimer: Yes, this post is a sarcastic parody of the parent. Mostly...

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by missing_cipher »

panabee wrote: post #30
missing_cipher wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You know, a few months ago I think so, but I could never find the culprit. I've had no issues recently, so maybe they updated it?

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by CJefferson »

mtp0101 wrote: post #29

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 cus…

Some users, like myself, used and customised vim before moving to sublime text.I'm not saying you, or anyone else, shouldn't use vim, but some of us feel more productive in ST than vim.T alking about "the slow world of sublime text limbo" seems unnecessarily insulting.
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