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Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by yAnonymous »

kolev wrote: post #5

Honestly, I've never seen another product here getting a post for every minor build! Nice to see such a die-hard fan base! But, please, face the reality - many have moved over to Atom already and are not looking back. Atom is alive, the ecosystem is already huge, atom-shell is getting popular as well. Unless Sublime gets open-sourced, it's in a slow agony. Remember TextMate? It had a huge loyal user base, but who is…

Atom is terrible to the point of being almost unusable compared to ST. It needs a ton of work.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by paraboul »

ashes2 wrote: post #22

I've been running the last stable build happily since August. Running this new build causes all four cores in my rmbp to spin up to 99% repeatedly (Activity Monitor says it's Sublime) and the fans to go wild. Is this happening to anyone else? I had to revert to the previous version which fixed it :(

Let it go for 1 hour. It's just indexing your files the first time.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by jbrooksuk »

microtonal wrote: post #26
jsprogrammer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom may always be slower, but the speed difference could eventually become negligible. If ST3, in it's current form, existed 20 years ago, people would have been making the same argument about Vim vs. ST3.

Actually, rendering is often faster in Sublime Text than in vim. I am a vim user and use the 'cursorline' and 'relativenumber' options and until recently I could notice rendering slowness on OS X and Linux. Things seem to have gotten better recently (either in vim or due to hardware advancing), but I never saw such slowness in Sublime text. (I wanted to like Sublime and have a license, but Vintage mode is a too leaky…

https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage ;)

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by FooBarWidget »

ashes2 wrote: post #22

I've been running the last stable build happily since August. Running this new build causes all four cores in my rmbp to spin up to 99% repeatedly (Activity Monitor says it's Sublime) and the fans to go wild. Is this happening to anyone else? I had to revert to the previous version which fixed it :(

I ran into this too. It's because of the index that Sublime builds for its Goto Anything feature. If you never use Goto Anything, in your User Settings:

    "index_files": false

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by bobbykjack »

linc01n wrote: post #45
cheald wrote: post #39

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You've never wanted to open a multi-megabyte data file in a text editor before? "You shouldn't be opening large files in it anyhow" is a cop-out. My text editor needs to edit whatever text files I throw at it. Choking on too-large a file is a showstopper.

Atom has a 2MB file limitation. That's why I wouldn't use it professionally yet.

I'm not sure that's even 'large', let alone 'huge'.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by spacemanmatt »

cheald wrote: post #13

After years of using it, I finally just bought a Sublime license. It's about as close to perfect as an editor gets for me - fast, stable, powerful, extensible, portable, and very low cognitive overhead. Kudos to the Sublime folks.

I've been a licensed user for a couple years. I use it almost every day, quite happily.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by Already__Taken »

qubitcoder wrote: post #50
kolev wrote: post #23

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Atom is not that slow in practice... except the slow startup, for daily business it's fine - I'm using it with a full suite of linters and autocomplete plugins on the older MacBook Air and it's not laggy.

I've made a few attempts to use Atom on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I continued to experience crashes with the linter, autocomplete, and Haskell-related plugins--or the plugins would work, only to break during the next Atom update. It also wasn't possible to use my favorite ligature-based font without breaking the cursor position. Not to mention the rendering/performance issues. There's a lot to admire about Atom.…

If you're that interested to try the atom browser might I suggest having a look at Brackets[1]? It was out before atom and I have been using it to replace ST3 just because I liked the idea of it.

I haven't tried atom it didn't initially release with windows support so I just stayed on brackets.

[1]: http://brackets.io/

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by blumkvist »

lambeosaurus wrote: post #9
tmikaeld wrote: post #6

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I have tried Atom, many many times. But i always get annoyed by how SLOW it is.

I tried it once and had the same experience. I'm really just waiting to meet even a single person who uses it as their daily IDE in a work environment (or even at home - I still haven't seen that.) At that point I'll consider trying it again. I love the concept. Just not enamoured with the execution.

Have you tried Adobe Brackets? IMO it's a lot faster + you get CSS hints from .psd files. Also you have inline editor, which is super useful.

It's still a lot slower than Sublime, but it's fine for me. (im not primarily a developer tho)

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by jbrooksuk »

kolev wrote: post #15
tmikaeld wrote: post #6

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I have tried Atom, many many times. But i always get annoyed by how SLOW it is.

It's slow with huge source files, agreed, but you shouldn't have huge source files anyway.

I need to view and edit CSV files which are consistently hundreds of MB, sometimes a couple of GB. It's the way it is, I can't help the format in which vendors send us files...
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