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Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by PSeitz »

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 slow and will stay slow, due to the architectural choice. DOM rendering is too complex to become blazingly fast.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by jordanthoms »

RobAley wrote: post #69
lambeosaurus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use it daily as my IDE. I find that startup time is indeed slow as a dog, but once it is up and running (and it's typically open all of the time, so startup time isn't a real issue) it runs fast enough. At certain times I notice small delays on more complex ops compared to sublime, but nothing significant. The main pro's for Atom, for me, are the way the eco-system is developing, the open-source nature of it, and I…

The issue with speed in an editor isn't so much that if your editor is slow that it makes you code faster, but that if your editor pauses, it interrupts your thinking and prevents it becoming very natural and quick to use, like an extension of your mind.

So it's not so much '60 seconds of waiting for the editor in a day', as '2s delay opening that file so my brain switched to thinking about something else, slowing me down for 10+ mins'

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by JonnieCache »

avinassh wrote: post #35

OT: What are some tips (or plugins) to be more productive on ST3?

Obviously loads of good plugins out there but I can highly recommend settings the "save_files_on_focus_lost" preference or whatever its called to true. Such an improved workflow for webdev and suchlike.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by corobo »

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.

Personally I wasn't convinced until I also tried out the "Sublime SFTP" plugin..

I'm never going back.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by on_and_off »

0xFFC wrote: post #62

Sorry for bring this up , but this is my honest question , why should I use sublime ? what is specific about it ? Let me explain , If I wanna text editor there is Emacs ( and vim for vim user's ) , and if I want to have specific feature like IDE's have (auto complete , GUI debugger etc ) , then I can use Qt Creator/Code Blocks/etc (which I don't need , Because I am not IDE user) , then Why should I use sublime , It d…

I don't see why you are getting downvoted, this is a legitimate question. Sublime is certainly not an IDE. AFAIK it can not do any of the things that make IDEs worth using : automatic refactoring, statistical analysis of your code, ... (not that it tries to). It is a text editor with plugins. The barrier to entry is way lower than for something like vi or Emacs and that's it.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by on_and_off »

amima wrote: post #17
coldtea wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Others too. But why you would assume that? The guy said he will be coming back with more, and the most delay between updates was like 8-9 months -- something that happens all the time for commercial projects where you might or might not see an update in 1 or even 2 years. In the last 2 months, he has been publishing an update dev release every 1 week or so.

August 2014 beta build was a really small update and the only one in year 2014. To be honest, my feeling also was that project has been abandoned. ST3 was silent for about a year and is supported by the single developer (as far as I understand it). No updates (except for one in August) in the times of Atom release, this looked like there was no more motivation for the Sublime Text developer. I am really happy that it…

From the look of it, it seems that the dev works very intermittently on Sublime. For my part, I would like to see something like LimeText (open source sublime clone) gain some traction. ST development cycle does not inspire me a lot of confidence.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by mrcarrot »

avinassh wrote: post #35

OT: What are some tips (or plugins) to be more productive on ST3?

Learn how to use multiple selections.

On OS X CTRL + SHIFT + UP/DOWN will create a new cursor on the next line up or down. And you can CMD + LMB-click to insert a new cursor anywhere.

I cannot count how much time this feature saves me.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by ghshephard »

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.

Likewise - It was over the winter, when I was back home in Canada, and remarked that I still hadn't purchased a license, but, in the last 6 months, had probably spent 3-4 hours/day in Sublime. In particular, making a lot of use of Sublimerge to do fast visual diffs, really won me over. Even though on remote hosts I still live in vim, I really, really love this tool when working locally.

Hopefully I'll be a little faster to purchase an upgrade license when a new version of Sublime is released. Probably One of the most important software tools I've used in the last year from a personal productivity perspective.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by archagon »

bobbykjack wrote: post #56
linc01n wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'.

For real. I think I've had to open multi-GB files in Sublime a few times. (And if not that, then certainly hundreds of MB.) Worked like a charm.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by jpmonette »

I used to simply ignore that nag screen, but decided to buy a license of ST3 since I use it every day - best investment in a while. I hope to see a stable ST3 build soon and some nice new features soon :)!
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