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Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by swah »

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.

Agreed, but the extensibility is very limited.

Just look at the contortions this little package has to go through to apply a color to portions of text: https://github.com/Monnoroch/ColorHighlighter/blob/master/Co...

It has to create and apply a fake theme merged with your current theme so colors can be added "dynamically"[1].

The ancient Emacs (I hate a hate/love relationship with it) can do this is several ways, the "modern" one are overlays IIRC.

[1] As expected, this will lead to bugs related to the users' color schemes: https://github.com/Monnoroch/ColorHighlighter/issues

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by theVirginian »

swah wrote: post #101
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.

Agreed, but the extensibility is very limited. Just look at the contortions this little package has to go through to apply a color to portions of text: https://github.com/Monnoroch/ColorHighlighter/blob/master/Co... It has to create and apply a fake theme merged with your current theme so colors can be added "dynamically"[1]. The ancient Emacs (I hate a hate/love relationship with it) can do this is several ways, the…

I get so sick of listening to people be so negative in the comments on this site. Can't you think of anything better to say than that it "sucks"

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by cheetos »

Besides Firefox, Sublime Text is the application I use the most in my day-to-day professional life. It is faster and easier to configure than any other code editor I've used in the past. I would say it's one of the few pieces of software I've encountered that is a joy to use.

If you also use ST regularly and can afford it, I highly encourage you to support development and buy a license right now.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

#105

Post by shawn-furyan »

tormeh wrote: post #88
deong wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet. If it's "dead", it's only a matter of (not very much) time before it doesn't work anymore.

That software can't ever just be finished is a problem that needs to be solved.

This problem doesn't seem tractable in anything approaching the near term. There are just too many dynamic layers, each with their own competing product ecosystems, which in turn each are controlled by competing interests. Perhaps at some point in the future the entire stack from hardware to application level APIs will become commodity products that nobody benefits from differentiating. At that time, perhaps software can just be finished once it arrives at feature maturity. Until then, UX, architectural, security and other assumptions made about the application environment will continue to age poorly, and software products will become outmoded unless actively developed.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

#106

Post by bartekko »

corobo wrote: post #74
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.

I didn't know this existed, thanks for that!

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by mrec »

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'm the opposite - bought a license years ago but don't actually use it for much except plaintext.

In my experience the core editor is fast and rock solid, but I think every single extension I've tried has been somewhere between glitchy and completely broken, and debugging/fixing them has soaked up more time than they'd save if they worked perfectly.

Part of the problem may be that extensions seem remarkably keen to take giant dependencies. I think one wanted a full node.js install to do JS linting.

Or maybe I've just been unlucky/incompetent.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by LeonRobrotsky »

tormeh wrote: post #88
deong wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet. If it's "dead", it's only a matter of (not very much) time before it doesn't work anymore.

That software can't ever just be finished is a problem that needs to be solved.

To an extent, having the source available is a good solution.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

#110

Post by vkjv »

I see lots of comments from people saying that after years of usage they just recently bought a license.

I'm curious what most people are using it for, since the license clearly states that you need to buy a copy for professional use.

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