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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by politician »

freeman478 wrote: post #68
politician wrote: post #45

I'm using ST2 for CoffeeScript/js development, and Visual Studio with ReSharper for backend C# development. The difference is night and day -- it feels like ST2 is designed with the sole goal of helping me write code as fast as possible with as little friction as possible. I used to wish that Visual Studio supported tmbundles, now I'm trying to figure out how to fit a C# development process into ST2.

Please keep us posted if you make progress on the C# front. I also like quite a bit ST2 but I don't think it could replace VS for now

Agreed, it certainly wouldn't replace VS for debugging, but it's just such a nice, fast, well-behaved editor... I almost want to try.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by sho_hn »

sho_hn wrote: post #98
kstrauser wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually agree with you completely: at this point you'd just assume that text editors would be free. That said, I work faster in ST2 than I did in Emacs and I can very quickly repay its purchase price in increased productivity. Should ST2's author get hit by a bus tomorrow and every copy of ST2 in the world instantly stop working, I could go back to Emacs and still have benefitted from having ST2 in the mean time.…

Let me be clear though that I wasn't talking about price. Rather I was genuinely surprised to learn that it wasn't open source , perhaps because so many of the top editors are, because of its persistent popularity in these circles and its dalliance with open solutions, and because I would expect someone starting a new high-end text editor today to want to put the project on solid long-term footing, which to me implie…

It's pretty interesting to see that I'm still getting down-voted for posts that I think, at this point, do a fairly reasonable job of communicating their point, do it in a civil manager and pose a legitimate question re: expectations of the use of the open source paradigm in certain kinds of software.

I wonder if it's really just because I'm saying something negative about a popular piece of software, and people exercise the downvote purely because they disagree rather than have quality objections?

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by yalestar »

Shank wrote: post #40

On Windows you can't do much better, all the paid text editors are crap (Textpad anyone?), and Notepad++'s plugin system falls short of Sublime's (hot installation vs. restarting). As usual another fantastic build.

Wow, I had almost totally forgotten about TextPad. I absolutely loved that editor back in about 2002-3. Unfortunately, the site looks exactly the same as it did back then (although, surprisingly, there have been fairly recent new releases)

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by mhartl »

sho_hn wrote: post #103
sho_hn wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me be clear though that I wasn't talking about price. Rather I was genuinely surprised to learn that it wasn't open source , perhaps because so many of the top editors are, because of its persistent popularity in these circles and its dalliance with open solutions, and because I would expect someone starting a new high-end text editor today to want to put the project on solid long-term footing, which to me implie…

It's pretty interesting to see that I'm still getting down-voted for posts that I think, at this point, do a fairly reasonable job of communicating their point, do it in a civil manager and pose a legitimate question re: expectations of the use of the open source paradigm in certain kinds of software. I wonder if it's really just because I'm saying something negative about a popular piece of software, and people exer…

I've just upvoted the downvoted entries to try to counteract this. The downvotes were not deserved in my view. Nevertheless, as I noted in a commend a couple of months ago, they still sting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422539

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by mhartl »

techiferous wrote: post #34

Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.

Sublime Text is very similar to TextMate, supporting many of the same keybindings, snippets, and themes. (I've even set up my system to use Ryan Bates's Railscast theme to keep things looking familiar.) Unlike TextMate, Sublime Text supports multiple panes and is cross-platform.

Because of its advantages (being cross-platform is the clincher), I'm planning to use Sublime Text in place of TextMate in the 2nd edition of the Rails Tutorial screencasts. I also hope to make a Sublime-specific screencast at some point, with an emphasis on keyboard shortcuts useful for Rails development. Further updates as events warrant.

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