I gave ST2 about three months too, but I haven't found enough to keep me. I've moved back to Macvim...
Three Months with Sublime Text 2
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Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2
#12I gave ST2 about three months too, but I haven't found enough to keep me. I've moved back to Macvim...
Anybody tried ST2 and moved back to TextMate?
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#13I tried Sublime and it works well, but RubyMine still won me over for Ruby because it finally feels polished and it's fast thanks to new hardware with plenty of RAM & CPU.
For text editing, Sublime just couldn't match vim & emacs because they're widely available on remote servers via SSH.
Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2
#14I gave ST2 about three months too, but I haven't found enough to keep me. I've moved back to Macvim...
This kind of anecdote is more useful with reasons.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can use IntelliJ for anything from Python to Ruby to Java to Go to Haskell. Sure it takes a little longer to start up than a no-plugin Emacs or Sublime Text, but it also does a lot more and I don't have to fiddle with it to make it work.
The Go and Haskell support is better in ST2 than in IntelliJ. For Python and Ruby, it depends. IntelliJ is unquestionably better for Java, though. Also, consider that ST2 is in its infancy and how developed its language support already is (see SublimeClang, for example). As ST2 becomes more popular, it might compete with the most developed IDEs.
And it will also become slow and bloated and people will move on to the next fast, lean editor that only needs feature x & y.
Wash & repeat ad infinitum.
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#16I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration.
>I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration.
Because we don't want a slow, Java based IDE, that goes over the uncanny valley in all platforms.
I do use Eclipse, which is not much better than IntelliJ, for Java editing. But I wouldn't bother with it for JS/PHP/Python/Ruby etc...
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#17I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration.
I liked using IntelliJ IDEA for Java development. However the reasons I now use Komodo Edit and ST2 over PyCharm/IDEA for Python are: IntelliJ has slower startup times, does certain things slower, takes up a lot of memory, does not look as nice. I do not need most of the functionality it provides and prefer having something snappier.
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#18It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory.
Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?
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#19>By default, the scope of autocomplete is only for the current file. “All Autocomplete Package” extends the scope to all open files in the current window.
Slightly buggy (alas, so many Sublime packages are), but even so, I'm really glad to see a plugin that tackles my only major disappointment in ST2.
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#20It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory. Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?
I wanted to design an icon replacement for it. When you think about it, "Sublime Text" is really hard to describe as an object.