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Wait, I thought it's not possible to style the sidebar in ST (or at least not much)? I was searching for a plugin that would show Git status in my sidebar (as Atom does) but everywhere I looked people were saying it's not possible because of this limitation in ST. Looks very good btw.
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It's less tiresome for your eyes, eventually your eyes will demand you to use dark color schemes.
I can recommend f.lux. With it the whole environment becomes of about the same light. Without it, and with a dark theme in your code editor you have one level of light, and when you switch to a web browser you can bombarded by photons. :-/
Or the oss variant redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
I do not understand why people code on a dark background. I get the CRT retro aesthetic, but it is less readable on modern screens. Reflections on glossy displays become a problem. When was the last time you saw a website with a black background? I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.
I don't want the full power of the LED backlight to hit me on the eyes with its full force in my editor screen which I look into for 8+ hours a day...
>I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.
Or perhaps you don't know any better...
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I don't really know that this is true. Sublime is a zillion times faster than Atom, and brackets isn't something that enters into the same league as either. I don't see how open-sourcing will help it.
Sublime Text appears to be developed by someone who actively shuns his users, though.
I wish there was a base16 ( https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 ) theme that fully skinned sublime like this does.
Looks cool, but this is still my favorite theme for Sublime: http://kkga.github.io/spacegray/
It's also a perfect match for the Numix desktop theme, which I find lovely: https://numixproject.org/
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Sublime Text appears to be developed by someone who actively shuns his users, though.
Still better than a ho-hum editor from user-lovers like Atom or Brackets...
Just a few days ago I got an email from a plugin developer (Sublimall), anounching that they're stopping development. Quote from the email: "There is no community, no documentation, API is not well designed and there is absolutely no communication with Sublime Text developers.".
I don't know if I can recommend it, really. There's a real risk other plugins I rely on won't be maintained anymore.
I do not understand why people code on a dark background. I get the CRT retro aesthetic, but it is less readable on modern screens. Reflections on glossy displays become a problem. When was the last time you saw a website with a black background? I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.
Dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes, especially on dimmer environments. I don't want the full power of the LED backlight to hit me on the eyes with its full force in my editor screen which I look into for 8+ hours a day... > I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better. Or perhaps you don't know any better...
The transition from dark to light is mildly painful, so you have a false sensation that the dark background is better because switching away from it is irritating.
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Still better than a ho-hum editor from user-lovers like Atom or Brackets...
Are they really? User-lovers, I mean. Just a few days ago I got an email from a plugin developer (Sublimall), anounching that they're stopping development. Quote from the email: "There is no community, no documentation, API is not well designed and there is absolutely no communication with Sublime Text developers.". I don't know if I can recommend it, really. There's a real risk other plugins I rely on won't be maint…
Well, that's just one developer though -- and who might be frustrated because of small adoption for his plugin. Haven't even heard of that one to be frank, but I see good movement in the ST plugin space for the stuff I use.
But my point was actually the opposite: I'd take a more fleshed out product like ST even if it's not user-friendly (in the community, developer relationship sense), over a user-friendly product thats not as functional, such as Atom etc.
If ST stops serving my needs (which it can serve as long as it runs in the current state, I don't need anything new, except for it to be ported to new versions of OS X), I'm OK. Else I can switch. I've used anything, and I'm a 15+ years Vim user too, so I can always go back to that.
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Dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes, especially on dimmer environments. I don't want the full power of the LED backlight to hit me on the eyes with its full force in my editor screen which I look into for 8+ hours a day... > I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better. Or perhaps you don't know any better...
This is often repeated nonsense. What is hard on your eyes is changing intensity. Switching between dark code and light email is the problem. The screen should also be about the same brightness as the room, so looking away from the computer doesn't require eye adjustment. The transition from dark to light is mildly painful, so you have a false sensation that the dark background is better because switching away from i…
Well, I like my room quite dark too.
Besides that, that "what is hard on your eyes is changing intensity" is absolutely BS.
Do you get comfortamble with a strobe light on your eyes after a while if it doesn't "change the intensity"? Photo-sensitivity is a thing.