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Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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post #43

Anyone know a way to auto-indent lines when working with HTML/Javascript? I feel the "Select text - Reindent" process is cumbersome

Put this in your user key bindings and then you can auto-indent with cmd+shift+g:

{ "keys": ["command+shift+g"], "command": "reindent", "args": {"single_line": false}}

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#62
post #50

I use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.[2] 6 years ago, I bought TextMate. Like Sublime Text, I enjoyed using it. Sadly, TextMate became abandonware. The sole developer suffered burnout. Bugs were never fixed. Promised features never showed up. Users wanted to fix these issues themselve…

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Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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post #50

I use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.[2] 6 years ago, I bought TextMate. Like Sublime Text, I enjoyed using it. Sadly, TextMate became abandonware. The sole developer suffered burnout. Bugs were never fixed. Promised features never showed up. Users wanted to fix these issues themselve…

This gets complicated if the author ever wants to sell the product to another company, though.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#64
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest bug for me is that it's $70 - Although I'm a professional developer, I'm still fairly underpaid (I don't live in London, San Fran, NY, etc.) and thus it's out of my price range when I can barely afford travel, rent and food.

Being underpaid isn't a function of being in a particular region (assuming your in America). Middle America Jr. Devs with little/no programming experience are getting started around $70K.

I'm in the UK, I've been working for about seven years, I'm on about that in Bristol (and have to commute for an hour to get here.)

I must just not be as good as a Junior in middle america.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest bug for me is that it's $70 - Although I'm a professional developer, I'm still fairly underpaid (I don't live in London, San Fran, NY, etc.) and thus it's out of my price range when I can barely afford travel, rent and food.

Can't the company you work for buy you a license?

Why should they?

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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post #50

I use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.[2] 6 years ago, I bought TextMate. Like Sublime Text, I enjoyed using it. Sadly, TextMate became abandonware. The sole developer suffered burnout. Bugs were never fixed. Promised features never showed up. Users wanted to fix these issues themselve…

Since February this year, Sublime HQ has been a 3 person company.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#67

Awesome. I almost considered buying it. Almost.

I still can't find a good reason to switch from Vim.

I'm in the same boat. I've used vim for a while now and I'm faster at a couple of small things. So much so that Sublime feels slower to me. (Having to take my hand off the mouse to do a two handed key combo. Or having to move my hands too far from the home keys to do a key combo.)

I spent some time last year using Sublime Text 2. [1] But I didn't get very far before I switched back to vim. My guess is that I'll have to unlearn my vim-ism or go all-in on vim and spend time practicing the more esoteric commands until they become second nature.

[1]: https://walledcity.com/supermighty/first-impression-sublime-...

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#68
post #30

Going public with the Beta doesn't bode well for the numerous small bugs and inconsistencies that have plagues sublime for longer than the closed Beta. Some also have been introduced with new features, but still remain unaddressed. It also probably means no new plugin Api functions and features, although many have been requested for a long time. I guess since ST is such a well-rounded product overall that these short…

Sublime once had genuinely amazing support. The solution to scaling that with the product's popularity has apparently been to drop it on the floor. Expect bug reports to go unanswered for months.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

#69
post #54
post #50

I use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.[2] 6 years ago, I bought TextMate. Like Sublime Text, I enjoyed using it. Sadly, TextMate became abandonware. The sole developer suffered burnout. Bugs were never fixed. Promised features never showed up. Users wanted to fix these issues themselve…

Sublime was able to change it from a "buy once, always use" to paid upgrades. This makes it a more sustainable business model. This is something that TextMate never had.

The trouble is, being rich already is a sustainable business model. If you have a tool where the only developer(s) working on it have made enough money that they don't need to continue running it commercially and have no personal interest in building more than they already have, paid upgrades are no guarantee of anything from a user's point of view.

As a counterpoint, as long as the version you already have is useful, and as long as it's a permanent copy that is not going to just stop working if the supplier takes their ball and goes home (I'm looking at you, Adobe), all you're risking is not having improvements that you were never guaranteed anyway. If the current version is better for you than whatever else you could have used instead, it's probably still worth buying it even with no future-proofing, IMHO.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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post #61
post #43

Anyone know a way to auto-indent lines when working with HTML/Javascript? I feel the "Select text - Reindent" process is cumbersome

Put this in your user key bindings and then you can auto-indent with cmd+shift+g: { "keys": ["command+shift+g"], "command": "reindent", "args": {"single_line": false}}

Ah, lovely, thanks! Note, just replace "command" with "ctrl" for Windows
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