If there is one app I've always been thrilled to pay for, it's Sublime Text. I've purchased and renewed the licence ever since v1 came out. While it may not be open sourced, you can see it was created with a lot of love for code and openness. Today there are thousands of amazing plugins to enhance it. And though I fully respect the open source initiative, I, for once, am very happy to support / give some money to a peer developer who has made our world much better.
Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
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#12I don't like how it shamelessly piggybacks on Sublime's reputation by using its name left and right and doesn't hesitate to knock it down by calling itself a "successor". This comes across as disrespectful at least.
On the main site, it used the name one. It also says it aims to be the successor, not that it is the successor. I wouldn't feel disrespected if someone did this. I would be a bit bummed someone is trying to take my paying user base but that's about it.
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#13I'm sure it's taken a load of work and is still in early stages, but describing yourself as the successor of Sublime Text when it looks as shit as that.. that's some brass!
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#14I'm sure it's taken a load of work and is still in early stages, but describing yourself as the successor of Sublime Text when it looks as shit as that.. that's some brass!
It's described as 'aiming to become a successor'. Everyone can set their goals wherever they wish. Whether they get there is another thing.
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#15Oh goodness, I'm sorry, but I can't get past that chunky window toolbar. I use editors like sublime instead of an IDE so my screen real estate isn't taken up by buttons to leave as much room as possible for my code. If that isn't right, there must be untold frustrations in the path of using this editor for me that I don't care to discover.
That's iTerm
Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I use editors like sublime instead of an IDE so my screen real estate isn't taken up by buttons to leave as much room as possible for my code Why not use something in a terminal with almost no interface then, say emacs or vi. All they require you to have is a mental model of what you are working on which you should have anyway/
If parent is like me: I like to use a pointer device, particularly together with sublimes multicursor implementation. See some entries that you want to edit simultaneously, but their pattern is complex to express? In emacs I would just give up and do it manually, in Sublime I can hold down Command, click each position and then apply any edit command. Happens very often in my kind of work.
I got exactly the same behaviour in emacs by installing the 'multiple-cursors package and adding the following to my .emacs file
(require 'multiple-cursors) (global-unset-key (kbd "M-")) (global-set-key (kbd "M-") 'mc/add-cursor-on-click)
Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
#17I don't like how it shamelessly piggybacks on Sublime's reputation by using its name left and right and doesn't hesitate to knock it down by calling itself a "successor". This comes across as disrespectful at least.
Sublime is dead. No one is actively developing it.
There's a rich history of piggybacking on dead software, and I (and many others) clicked this link because of that piggybacking.
I completely support and admire someone who is trying to further the development of Sublime without having the original code base.
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#18If there is one app I've always been thrilled to pay for, it's Sublime Text. I've purchased and renewed the licence ever since v1 came out. While it may not be open sourced, you can see it was created with a lot of love for code and openness. Today there are thousands of amazing plugins to enhance it. And though I fully respect the open source initiative, I, for once, am very happy to support / give some money to a p…
What a touching story you have there. Comments like these are why the "HN bias" spreads.
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#19If there is one app I've always been thrilled to pay for, it's Sublime Text. I've purchased and renewed the licence ever since v1 came out. While it may not be open sourced, you can see it was created with a lot of love for code and openness. Today there are thousands of amazing plugins to enhance it. And though I fully respect the open source initiative, I, for once, am very happy to support / give some money to a p…
I completely agree with what you say. Sublime is awesome and I don't mind paying money for closed-source software. What I do mind is, that the development seems to have stopped, and being closed-source nobody can move it forward but the original maintainer.
It once again brings attention to the most important "bus factor" [0]
Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
#20I don't like how it shamelessly piggybacks on Sublime's reputation by using its name left and right and doesn't hesitate to knock it down by calling itself a "successor". This comes across as disrespectful at least.
Sublime is dead. No one is actively developing it. There's a rich history of piggybacking on dead software, and I (and many others) clicked this link because of that piggybacking. I completely support and admire someone who is trying to further the development of Sublime without having the original code base.
"However, development is still active: when I spoke to Jon today he advised me that not only does he expect an update to the beta in August, he has also started mapping out some frameworks for version 4 which will help guide future development."