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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.
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Personally I wasn't convinced until I also tried out the "Sublime SFTP" plugin.. I'm never going back.
Hopefully in this day and age, you are using that plugin to SFTP into a virtual machine locally.
SFTP is as secure as any other SSH connection and people use those extremely regularly to remotely administer hosts which lack a VPN.
Aside from terrible Windows support SFTP is likely one of the best secure remote file transfer protocols around (in particular for freeform file transfers, rather than structured like AS2 or similar).
Certainly better than FTPS.
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Personally I wasn't convinced until I also tried out the "Sublime SFTP" plugin.. I'm never going back.
Hopefully in this day and age, you are using that plugin to SFTP into a virtual machine locally.
OT: What are some tips (or plugins) to be more productive on ST3?
One plugin I'd recommend for anyone is All Autocomplete. It extends Sublime's autocomplete detection to match across any open file, and not only the current file.
Also Ctrl+Shift+P searches through all of Sublime's and your plugins available actions. Ctrl+P allows you to switch files without your mouse.
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.
"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."
Personally, I was happy to purchase a license because I think it's a great application, but I admit that it's on the pricey side.
I'm reliefed that development progressed again this year. You don't want to invest time on a dead editor.
>You don't want to invest time on a dead editor. And this is why it's important for your editor to be free software. Emacs isn't going anywhere, and they don't have unjust control over my computing.
I don't understand this. What is unjust about a software author charging for their work? I and many others are happy and willing to pay.
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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…
> Or maybe I've just been unlucky/incompetent. Every lint extension I've seen seems to drag a full install of whatever the popular implementation of the language is.
This is the biggest problem with sublime plugins. dependencies. It is also 100% why I refuse to add non-python dependencies to any plugins I write (which has really just been JsFormat thus far)
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.
Aside from the obvious alternative of "personal use," are you really surprised that people aren't always in full compliance with their EULAs?
I love the 'Goto Symbol (in Project)...' feature, but I really wish the input would be populated with text you have selected in the editor. This way you could jump to a function/whatever underneath the cursor by doing something like: Cmd-D, Cmd-(Shift-)R, Enter - instead of copy-pasting, or retyping the symbol. I added this to the mass of suggestions in the ST forum, but I guess it has been lost or rejected :(