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Re: Sublime Text 4

#101

Wait, older versions of ST were NOT rendered by GPU?

I'm still using Sublime Text 2 on macOS Mojave and sometimes, but not always, if I take a screenshot of it, the text gets captured without syntax highlighting despite being highlighted on screen. So it's definitely doing some graphical shenanigans to render text as fast as it does.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#102

> TypeScript, JSX and TSX Support It doesn't seem like Sublime ships with the Typescript language server by default, not sure if I'd call syntax highlighting as support.

It's the same support we supply for every language. Syntax highlighting drives our goto-definition, goto-symbol, auto-complete and more.

This is interesting. Does that mean that it's not possible to goto-definition for a file that isn't open? What about goto-definition of a file in a different module?

Combining syntax highlighting and code navigation seems like a reasonable approach, I'm just curious how it works.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#103
I'm blown away by how snappy this is. It always is, but it's even better now. This is really impressive work.

I don't think I'm the target audience here. I just spent 30m trying to tune this for a TypeScript project, and I can't seem to easily get eslint, prettier, and a few other tools working. I added the TypeScript language server package, but it doesn't offer any of the effortless reference navigation and refactoring I'm used to.

Having said that, am I just missing something? Can Sublime be that kind of editor?

I think I'd love to give it a shot, but without these conveniences I'm feeling like I should stick with VS Code.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#104
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not really much though... Software engineers make that in an hour or two, that's reasonable price for 3 years of updates of the primary tool... And it's a business expense. And as the sibling comment says, a game costs about the same.

$100 in an hour or two? Only in a small part of the world.

Okay then, five or eight hours, or a week.. for 3 years of updates - still peanuts considering that this is programmer's primary tool and business expense deductible from tax base.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#105

I'm a Data Engineer that works all day with all sorts of data, most of which gets streamed through python, dataframes, some sqlite, lots of awk/sed - but at least a half dozen times a day, every day, I drop a massive chunk of text into Sublime and crank through it - its progressive regex, fast filtering, search/replace are just coded into my finger DNA - It handles absolutely huge files that would cripple something l…

What makes textmate special? (What is textmate? …idk)

Re: Sublime Text 4

#106

Anyone know of a good vi plugin for sublime ? The last time I tried, all the plugins were significantly laggy and while nvim was functionally complete, it had this annoying behavior of switching out of insert mode if sublime lost focus. Apparently that's by design too. Sublime itself was super snappy though. unfortunately a good vi/vim mode is a requirement for me.

Ditto. This is my dealbreaker w respect to vscode.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Sublime Merge by the same folks is also fantastic. My favorite visual fit client

My workflow at the moment is VS Code for TS/JS but Sublime Merge for when I need to interact with git, ignoring the built-in VS Code stuff.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#109

Hello HN, I'm one of the developers at Sublime HQ. We're all very excited about this release. If you have any questions you'd like to ask I'll do my best to answer them.

Are there any plans to open source the GUI system? It could be a hugely beneficial for a set of cross platform apps.

Thanks a lot for creating this piece of software art. I’m a user since the v1 and no matter what the editor du jour is, I always fallback to ST and Vim.

Re: Sublime Text 4

#110

I feel bad using VSCode after years of supporting Sublime (by purchasing a license). However the one case where I do use sublime repeatedly? When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. It boots faster than VSCode, and frankly, it finally broke me of my constant habit of VIMming now that I have it on my mac, win and linux boxes. I am eager to try V4, but I'm so deep in VSCode now, I don't know if I can find my way out! I c…

> I feel bad using VSCode

Why?

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