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Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by kolev »

weavie wrote: post #40
kolev wrote: post #20

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People here still get excited about LISP, too. I can understand Clojure, but Lisp, come on! It was in the 80s and 90s when I used LISP for AI and my favorite muLISP, but it's 2015 already! So, this is a boutique community, don't make generalization from it. Atom is doing pretty well for its infancy! I was super excited about Intype in the past - much more excited about anybody could be about Sublime. After many, many…

People got excited about Richard III ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32014296 ) and he's from the 1400's. I can understand Prince George, but Richard, come on!

Didn't know HN means Historian News. People just are so excited about LISP here, because of some loyalty to Paul Graham. Smalltalk and Forth get a lot less attention than LISP although they share a lot of its beauty - simple yet powerful syntax. Well, sometimes I also wonder if this is Haskell News, too. :)

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by tedmiston »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #125
avinassh wrote: post #35

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

In case anyone isn't aware, Package Control[0] adds an incredibly simple package manager to Sublime in order to automatically install/update plugins. After that's been installed, I'd recommend browsing the popular packages (already linked in another comment) or just hitting Ctrl+Shift+P, "Install", and searching for the names of languages/tools you use. One plugin I'd recommend for anyone is All Autocomplete. It exte…

I'll check it out, but it's got some strange arbitrary limits:

  MIN_WORD_SIZE = 3
  MAX_WORD_SIZE = 50

  MAX_VIEWS = 20
  MAX_WORDS_PER_VIEW = 100
  MAX_FIX_TIME_SECS_PER_VIEW = 0.01

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by jbrooksuk »

kolev wrote: post #154
jbrooksuk wrote: post #60

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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...

Sublime could possibly choke on these file as well. I've had issues with larger files with it.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, a few times Sublime has crashed, but then it's usually syntax highlighting, I turn it off and it works a treat.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by kolev »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #173
kolev wrote: post #154

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Sublime could possibly choke on these file as well. I've had issues with larger files with it.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, a few times Sublime has crashed, but then it's usually syntax highlighting, I turn it off and it works a treat.

True. You have to agree though that this is unfair to Atom. It's new, yes, it uses WebKit now, but it may have native rendering tomorrow. To shoot it down in the early beginning given it's doing many things right (like native package management) - it's not the right thing to do in this forum!

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by kasabali »

sjolsen wrote: post #161
unfamiliar wrote: post #131

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I really disagree with the characterisation that it is for people who "prefer a mouse based approach." I hardly ever touch the mouse while using it. For me, the thing that sets sublime apart from vim and emacs is the fact that it is a full gui app. Things like go to definition, autocomplete, build panel, command pallete, sidebar, context menus, are all technically possible in vim, but hacking these features into a co…

>For me, the thing that sets sublime apart from vim and emacs is the fact that it is a full gui app. Things like go to definition, autocomplete, build panel, command pallete, sidebar, context menus, are all technically possible in vim, but hacking these features into a command line interface always ends up seeming clunky, confusing and slow. I can't speak for vim, but Emacs is also a "full gui app." It has go to defi…

I disagree, Emacs isn't a "full gui app" even if it has a gui with menus and can show images etc.; because almost all kind of interaction happens inside buffers opened in (new) windows. there are no proper dialogs/popups (they're not used even if it's possible), so Emacs is not a proper GUI app as anyone would expect.

I don't claim it's a good or bad thing, a lot of people love emacs because of it's buffer/window centric approach, but it's not even remotely close to what you would expect from a modern gui, so Emacs is still oddball when compared to all the other gui's, which is why new users still struggle with it even though on paper Emacs has all the features other gui editors have.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by psychometry »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #126
vkjv wrote: post #110

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.

Actually, it's more 'strict' than that: "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.

"must"

They don't incentivize purchasing in any other way than displaying a popup reminder once a day. It's a fully-featured product without the license, so there's not much motivation to buy it unless you view the purchase as a donation of sorts.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by sjolsen »

kasabali wrote: post #175
sjolsen wrote: post #161

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>For me, the thing that sets sublime apart from vim and emacs is the fact that it is a full gui app. Things like go to definition, autocomplete, build panel, command pallete, sidebar, context menus, are all technically possible in vim, but hacking these features into a command line interface always ends up seeming clunky, confusing and slow. I can't speak for vim, but Emacs is also a "full gui app." It has go to defi…

I disagree, Emacs isn't a "full gui app" even if it has a gui with menus and can show images etc.; because almost all kind of interaction happens inside buffers opened in (new) windows. there are no proper dialogs/popups (they're not used even if it's possible), so Emacs is not a proper GUI app as anyone would expect. I don't claim it's a good or bad thing, a lot of people love emacs because of it's buffer/window cen…

So all in context, it sounds to me like you're saying that what sets Sublime Text apart from Emacs is simply that it uses a familiar user interface. I suppose that's fair enough.

What I wouldn't say is fair, though, is characterizing something as incomplete and especially improper simply for being different from what you're used to.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by admyral »

hobarrera wrote: post #166
cheetos wrote: post #104

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.

I purchased the licence years ago and used it almost exclusively until I got familiarized with vim. It's way more powerful and can do anything that sublime can. Plus more. The only downside is the learning curve, but you only go through it once.

The other downside is maintaining .vimrc and all the plugins and feeling utterly hamstrung without it.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

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Post by coldtea »

zoner wrote: post #64
jbrooksuk wrote: post #54

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

Not s solution, the things I use in vim is not in Vintage. hjkl navigation and yy is not enough for me.

Vintageous has tons of options on top of "hjkl navigation and yy". All kinds of Vim-y stuff is there.
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