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Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

#102
post #16

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I see this argument over and over but I've never heard why it's too slow. I enter a key, the text is immediately updated. Sure, starting the editor takes 3 seconds but that's about it. Not only that, but Atom gets a faster startup with every update. The only thing I found bothersome was the 2 MB filesize restriction.

Atom is also huge - 77 MB installer on Windows, while Sublime Text 3 is 8 MB. It hardly fits the bill for a lean-mean-editor. Atom doesn't have a 64-bit version either. I tried it as a replacement for Sublime Text 3 but it just doesn't cut it. I am wondering why ST3 development had slowed down in the first place.

>Atom doesn't have a 64-bit version either

Hmm?

/usr/share/atom/atom: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64

edit: its here: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.177.0/atom...

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

#103
post #53

Too late for me. Atom replaces sublime in my workflow.

Just tried opening a file larger than 2MB....nope. End of Atom tryout.

I'm using Atom to code. If you have a source file bigger than 2mb, trust me, the Atom limit is the last of your problems. :)

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

#104
post #25
post #22

It's great. SB3 beta has been completely stable for me the past year, so looking forward to testing the new builds.

The plugin system dies for me regularly. I wish I didn't have to quit ST3 to fix that.

I have never had that issue, but I also only use a few plugins (Emmet, Blade Highlighter, SFTP, Gist etc.).

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

#105
post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom is also huge - 77 MB installer on Windows, while Sublime Text 3 is 8 MB. It hardly fits the bill for a lean-mean-editor. Atom doesn't have a 64-bit version either. I tried it as a replacement for Sublime Text 3 but it just doesn't cut it. I am wondering why ST3 development had slowed down in the first place.

>Atom doesn't have a 64-bit version either Hmm? /usr/share/atom/atom: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64 edit: its here: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.177.0/atom...

Oh yeah, well not on Windows.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

#106
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just tried opening a file larger than 2MB....nope. End of Atom tryout.

I'm using Atom to code. If you have a source file bigger than 2mb, trust me, the Atom limit is the last of your problems. :)

I have to open CSV files all the time that can easily be hundreds of MB. I'm not doing anything wrong, it's a dataset.
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