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SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by johnsea »

Danke! -- MIT is a nice licence. Hope it works out well:

>>What are my hopes for the future?

  - Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem

  - The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in

  - Support for more languages, modes and contributions thereof

  - Longevity of SubEthaEdit as a product

Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by simonw »

I remember using SubEthaEdit at university for collaborative note taking in lectures back in 2003ish and it was like absolute wizardry.

Really excited to see it open sourced. What a fascinating piece of software history.

(Also: Carcassonne for iOS remains the best board game port I've ever played)

Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by davemp »

johnsea wrote: post #3

Danke! -- MIT is a nice licence. Hope it works out well: >>What are my hopes for the future? - Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem - The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in - Support…

- Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem

- The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in

- Support for more languages, modes and contributions thereof

- Longevity of SubEthaEdit as a product

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Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by petercooper »

Oh nice. I forgot SubEthaEdit existed but it was first text editor on macOS before the TextMate hype in the early Rails days :-) While I support the right to release commercial products, I think it's very noble to open source things after a certain time, if only for the purpose of history and preservation.

Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by buserror »

I have a bought licence of subethaedit, from years and years ago. I still use it, but I never upgraded since I had to re-buy a licence to do so!

Glad I waited. I still love the coloured changes for modified text in a document (that stay on after saving!), it's really really handy when working on a longish file to have quick visual clues when scrolling back/forth. I wish more editors had that.

Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by jspash »

I'm not meaning to take away anything from this announcement, which I think is great. But what options are there for collaborative coding in Sublime? (I don't use Atom)

Having tried Floobits, the experience was ok. But I do a lot of pairing online with 0 day beginners, and need something as little setup as possible. ie. The students are able to install Sublime and Packages. Having to sign up for Floobits is just another step I'd like to avoid.

I suppose I'm looking for a service (paid or otherwise) that provides urls which would relay the keystrokes between editors facilitated by a Sublime package. Does anything like that exist?

Re: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

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Post by Eclyps »

jspash wrote: post #8

I'm not meaning to take away anything from this announcement, which I think is great. But what options are there for collaborative coding in Sublime? (I don't use Atom) Having tried Floobits, the experience was ok. But I do a lot of pairing online with 0 day beginners, and need something as little setup as possible. ie. The students are able to install Sublime and Packages. Having to sign up for Floobits is just anot…

I know that this doesn't make use of Sublime, but you could give Cloud9 a shot. I've used it for pair programming and it's actually pretty nice on that front, especially if you're just helping beginners understand things because you end up sharing the entire environment, not just your IDE.

https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace

Sorry I can't help on the Sublime side - I've tried Floobits with moderate success, but understand your need for something that's more "plug and play".

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