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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by spiderice » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:31 AM UTC

ipaddr wrote: post #93

FredPret wrote: post #4

I like how I started years ago by saying “Notepad sucks, let me try Notepad++ and Sublime Text”. Now it’s almost an IDE, but still a great text editor!

Notepad is on every system

I can’t seem to find it on my Mac :)

Joking aside, even if it were on every system, I don’t see it having much use outside of the very, very rare edit in a system that isn’t my own.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by yesenadam » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:32 AM UTC

TeeMassive wrote: post #125

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

Vim has Vimtutor; could Sublime have its Sumblimetutor too? I've been using Sublime for years now and yet I barely use most of its "well known features" and I feel ashamed of myself. I know there are tutorials out there, but I am a chronic procrastinator and I just can't bring myself to watch them while at home.

You could use philosopher John Perry's method. Put every activity on a To Do list, ordered by importance. Procrastination is doing lower-down items instead of higher-up items. Perry has the top of his list filled with so many awesome items that even things lower down are still well worth doing.

So, it sounds like you could add more awesome things to do to the top of your list, until your procrastination becomes things like..watching Sublime tutorials. He explains his method in detail on this page:

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by iamcreasy » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:32 AM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

I am wondering if it's possible for Python plugin to add custom UI elements?

For example, if I am using Julia/R I want side panel that shows all my current variables in memory. Is Sublime plugin system capable of adding UI components such as variable/plot viewer and add custom interactions to those UI panels(i.e. zoom/rotation for plots)?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by tomcooks » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:32 AM UTC

I have never been that convinced to switch from vim to a closed source text editor as when I tried ST on Windows.

It has a glorious interface and defaults that give your fingers wings. And maybe one day GPL license, who knows?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by tshaddox » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

skavi wrote: post #79

dawnerd wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to take any thunder away from Sublime but VSCode basically opens instantly on M1.

You almost definitely speak the truth, but that kind of attitude towards performance is why so many apps are so awful to use now. Especially if you can’t afford the newest Mac.

Buying recent computer hardware for software performance reasons is hardly new, and hardly seems like something to be avoided.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by stickyricky » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

nkozyra wrote: post #48

contriban wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it hard to believe anyone would use Notepad past the “wow I can edit this HTML file” phase. I found PSPad years before I started working.

Note the "years ago" part. Options were limited for non terminal free/cheap options for a long time. Wiki says PSPad came out in 2001, I'd guess this experience predated that.

In 1999, I made a Starcraft blog entirely in Notepad. There may have been other options at the time but my download speed was < 28k in rural Tennessee.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:35 AM UTC

iamcreasy wrote: post #163

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

I am wondering if it's possible for Python plugin to add custom UI elements? For example, if I am using Julia/R I want side panel that shows all my current variables in memory. Is Sublime plugin system capable of adding UI components such as variable/plot viewer and add custom interactions to those UI panels(i.e. zoom/rotation for plots)?

That's not currently possible, no. The only custom UI elements can be done using minihtml (a subset of html).

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by tusharsadhwani » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:37 AM UTC

woodruffw wrote: post #42

bigyikes wrote: post #16

I was a Sublime user, then Atom, and now I’m a VS Code user. In 2021, what reasons are there to use Sublime over VS Code? Performance is the only one that comes to mind, but there are surely others... right?

I've tried to make the switch from Sublime to VS Code a few times, and a few things consistently hang me up: * Performance, like you mentioned. I've very used to opening hundreds of megabytes of line-delimited data in my editor; anything that can't keep up with that immediately ruins my "tempo." * I don't really understand how to customize VS Code's UI. It has a lot of little toolbars and widget panels that I don't w…

FWIW, VS Code has a "zen mode" view which hides everything other than the editor window, which kinda makes it comfortable for people coming from vim, sublime and the like. Try it out sometime.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by fclaerho » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:37 AM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

As a developer, I tried to use a lot of code editors, my main criteria being performance, and I've stuck to ST since the first day I used it. Your editor is awesome and in term of perf you're far ahead. Thanks for your work, and also thanks a lot to adding the M1 support with ST4! I didn't expected it (ST3 works fine with Rosetta on M1) and it's much appreciated.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by sturmeh » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:38 AM UTC

SavantIdiot wrote: post #40

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…

My favourite aspect of sublime is that the "sessions" are so reliable.

I often just open it to jot something down, and before I know it I have 15-20 notes on separate pages, I'll consolidate and save them to a file somewhere or delete them if necessary.

It's just a super reliable scratchpad and a versatile modern textfile editor.