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Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by MattBearman »

jokoon wrote: post #32
bubblicious wrote: post #11

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 p…

60 bucks for an editor is quite expensive I think. There are nice alternative to such an editor. I wonder what features makes sublime text so much valuable...

What makes sublime text so valuable is that it saves me at least 30 minutes a day compared to what I used to use, not to mention making web development a much nicer experience.

So it more than pays for itself every 2 days, and makes working more enjoyable. I'd happily pay more than $60 for it.

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by jokoon »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #36
jokoon wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

60 bucks for an editor is quite expensive I think. There are nice alternative to such an editor. I wonder what features makes sublime text so much valuable...

Have you downloaded the "forever-free" trial?

Yes, I use that, but I'd also love to buy just for the sake of it. But 60 is a lot. I guess he just targets developer who are constantly using an editor instead, increasing the price and making that bet. The pop up message must be quite unnerving for heavy users.

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by ropiku »

erikb wrote: post #30
randunel wrote: post #23

Am I the only one who immediately wondered how Atom was doing when seeing this article? :D

Yes, me too. The last time I looked it was only for Mac users, which is totally wrong for a HTML based editor. Didn't mind looking a second time (until I hear some great buzz, I guess). I'm also curious about this vim reimplementation some guys are working on. I'll go and check that out right now!

There is a build for Windows now. I've started using Atom along with Sublime and Atom is a lot more stable now.

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by jokoon »

phpnode wrote: post #37
jokoon wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

60 bucks for an editor is quite expensive I think. There are nice alternative to such an editor. I wonder what features makes sublime text so much valuable...

60 bucks is less than an hour's pay for many developers. We're talking about a tool that gets used for > 8hrs/day in many cases. Other industries would DREAM of having tools this cheap! * edited to remove the word "most" which seems to be upsetting some people.

Yes he might target developers who make an everyday use of it, I just use a C++ IDE. I still don't understand what are those features though. Isn't it just good for web/python development ?

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by RobAley »

dhruvbhatia wrote: post #21
smt88 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Sublime is dead. No one is actively developing it. This isn't correct, at least according to the author. This was posted in the ST forum on Mar. 18, 2014 [1]: "From the Sublime office: We are not selling to Github, we are not stopping development of Sublime. As noted by another poster, this is effectively a one man band (I'm here to answer sales questions, process your refunds and get the mail so Jon doesn't have t…

That was March, it's now pushing September. There's been one similar post since, but no sign of anything actually happening in the background.

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by Corrado »

randunel wrote: post #23

Am I the only one who immediately wondered how Atom was doing when seeing this article? :D

I would love for Atom to make some progress. The last time I tried it I really liked it, however it was way too slow to be useful to me. There was a perceivable delay between when I typed a character and when it showed up on screen.

This is a deal breaker for an IDE, IMHO. Then again, it is a really young editor and has a lot of room to grow and mature. So, here's to both Lime Text & Atom. May our text processing future be bright!

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by hiker »

m_mueller wrote: post #27
vbsteven wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Ok that's interesting. The following features are also crucial to me: * Tree view * Split window with synchronized views when showing the same file * Regex search over file or selection, results can be turned into multicursors (!) * Regex search over multiple files or directories * Multicursors at each line for a selection * Auto-update of views when file underneath changes (editor should ask what to do in case of ed…

As an active Emacs user, I can confirm the answer of all of the above is "yes". Heck, it even has a Tetris and a Psychiatrist built in.

My .emacs is portable and I use it across Linux, OS X and Windows. Of course it's based on my personal preferences (vim emulation anyone?) and I seldom see people sharing the same config except maybe Bozhidar's Emacs prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by gabemart »

erikb wrote: post #28
bubblicious wrote: post #11

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 p…

I suppose being open source doesn't stop you from giving user licenses for money, though. True, people can just use your program by violating your license. From coder to coder that is way less likely than, for instance, between the movie industry and the movie viewers, though. And being open source, even the violating users might add value to your product by fixing bugs and adding features.

> I suppose being open source doesn't stop you from giving user licenses for money, though. True, people can just use your program by violating your license.

I don't follow your argument here. To qualify as "Open Source" rather than "source available", people have to be free to modify and redistribute the source code. So even if you charge for a license, there's nothing to stop the first licensee redistributing for free. In other words, if it's open source, people can use the program for free without violating your license.

Re: Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

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Post by dan_bk »

bubblicious wrote: post #11

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 p…

> there are thousands of amazing plugins

It would be excellent if they were compatible with Lime...

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