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Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by hartator »

lynndylanhurley wrote: post #208
sixothree wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry. I find vim completely dated, arcane, and esoteric. Sure, it can do almost 25% of the stuff sublime can do but every feature has it's own learning curve. If I want to select four lines of text in any text editor that isn't vim, I just hold down the shift key and use any of the cursor navigation available to me. Not so in vim. Upon leaving vim none of the key bindings are never used in any other program. T…

The 25% claim sounds a little weird - what are some features that sublime has that vim doesn't have?

I like the multicursor feature. Vim can't do that.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by nilkn »

hartator wrote: post #221
lynndylanhurley wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 25% claim sounds a little weird - what are some features that sublime has that vim doesn't have?

I like the multicursor feature. Vim can't do that.

I haven't tried it, but it looks like there's a decent plugin for this for vim: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by ntide »

tlrobinson wrote: post #159
markbao wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a vim user, I feel as if the essence of vim is an extension of my mind . Much like riding a bicycle, I instinctively think "select this line and the four lines below it and copy it" as "V4jy" with little cognitive thought. Kind of cool from a cognitive science standpoint.

Do you think it's possible some people just aren't wired like this? Or am I just not trying hard enough? I've tried to pick up Vim several times and never made it very far. But at least I know "i" and ":wq" now :)

Try this: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...

This is how I learned Vim, so as far as I know it's the best resource out there.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

pvnick wrote: post #142

I love Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I'm not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn't do it. Then I made the realization that the editor you use has…

I too LOVE sublime text (especially the mini document map, God I love that thing), I just wish there was an addon that turned a tab into a Rich Text Document editor (italic, bold, bullet points, etc...) I tend to write very long posts for my blog and I hate the Wordpress editor.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by Achshar »

CodeMage wrote: post #146
wmt wrote: post #136

Poor documentation, closed source and an unresponsive developer? Sorry, while the editor has several really nice features, I'm not willing to risk commitment to such a floosy editor.

While on the first glance your comment might seem to be an unfair, snarky dismissal, it's actually a pretty accurate summary of what's making me stay with beta versions instead of buying it. Here's a bug that's been driving me crazy: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8889 I can edit the theme file, but it's hit-and-miss guessing game that hasn't yielded any results. I also couldn't find any compreh…

That doesn't happen to me on windows. I am using ctrl + scroll to increase the font size.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by Achshar »

nahname wrote: post #121
leeoniya wrote: post #115

the main reason i am not buying or using it is because he doesn't work off the Userecho page he set up, which in my opinion should be his priority. He adds stuff that he feels is good, but ignores real user's needs. http://sublimetext.userecho.com/ all the feature requests are simply mothballed for years, including some that are showstoppers for me.

As someone who uses sublime everyday let's go through that list... Syntax / Code folding - feature for dealing with bad code. Solution: write good code. We don't need additional cruft in the editor slowing it down. Terminal panel (specifically for windows) - Would actually be nice for windows users. I am not one. Probably why the console in sublime is so limited, supporting windows in this regard is terribly difficul…

> Move tabs to the title bar like in Google Chrome

What it means is like chrome there should be no title bar. Precious vertical pixels wasted for something that is never used. Like chrome or most modern browsers have moved the tabs in the title bar sublime should do this too.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by mataug »

bornhuetter wrote: post #33

I'm so glad to see .deb installers alongside the tarballs, I've usually resorted to using third party repos for ST2 installation. It's really great to see a developer treating Windows, Linux and OSX all as first class targets (not just wrt the installers).

Sadly It is really difficult to make all Linuxes as First Class Citizens, You have to resort to tarballs, Only Ubuntu has gotten to be a true first class citizen.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

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Post by srgpqt »

budu3 wrote: post #125
jeremyaarts wrote: post #5

I have been using version 3 for a couple months now and I must say, this thing is fast. Starts in less than half a second and the 'Goto Symbol in Project' is an amazing new feature which I now use frequently. Window layout management has also been greatly improved. For me, at the moment this is the best code editor out there. edit: typo

Are you able to print in version 3?

Not yet. (build 3046)
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