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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by shrikrishna »

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've loved Sublime for years, and it's always the first software I install on a new machine. I even voted with my pocket by buying a license.

However, since we started using Yarn workspaces (for JS), I've needed to switch to VSCode because its auto-import is just so much better, and it's one of those things that's hard to go back from, once you're used to it. Sublime text already indexes my code for search, which can probably be used for path suggestions / automatic imports without affecting performance too much maybe? I dunno.

I wouldn't mind it being a plugin either (before Yarn workspaces, I'd use FuzzyFilePath plugin which worked pretty well). But native support would mean the performance would be on par with what I've come to expect from Sublime Text :)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by eitland »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #174
eitland wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly certain the Jetbrains subscription model is: (Edit, I had to look it up, the exact wording is:) "You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for. Other notably nice app/programs that uses this or similar sane, friendly models including Sublime Text 4 and Jetbrains products: - Agenda (Mac, iOS) Planner/journal - Manic Time time tracker (Windows, maybe Mac…

I let my rider license lapse and I did have to "downgrade" to keep using it.

But only to the last version that you had paid for 12 months, right?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by modernerd »

muststopmyths wrote: post #43

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.

Have you tried the built-in vintage mode?

https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/vintage.html

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by blibble »

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.

a bit of a weird one... is there anyway I use my license for version 4 on version 2?

my day job has a fixed list of binaries that are permitted to run (by digest)... 2 is on the list, and 4 isn't

(quite happily using 4 now at home!)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by stephenr »

I'd love to use a lighter (in terms of resources) editor like this, but after using IDEA (not for java - but it's the single Jetbrains tool that supports all other language packs) the editor in this feels like comparing a car to a bicycle.

Sure, the bicycle starts off quicker, and you feel so much quicker.

But that's where the benefits end, IMO. I just opened up a client project with this (that project is a mixture of php, sql, shell, and some client side browser code).

The symbol recognition compared to IDEA was pretty abysmal. Then I thought maybe I need to try the other way (i.e. find a usage of a symbol manually and then try to resolve it back to its definition).

That the find-in-files results are just another text view with paths in there is probably appealing to some people... me I'd rather you just let me open the file.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by meekins »

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.

Congrats on the release!

Are there any plans for some kind of combo deal now that Sublime Text and Sublime Merge licenses are aligned?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by blackfawn »

mxcrossr wrote: post #19
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #2

> Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase. After that, you will still have full access to every version of Sublime Text released within the 3 year window. I really love this model.

I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out

I agree with this very much. Both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge are quite cost prohibitive, particularly so for individual users. I've mentioned this here and elsewhere before and often others will attempt to deflect this with getting an employer to cover it or that it isn't much for a developer, but that only holds true for a smaller subset than they realize.

One can buy a copy of Windows 10, an entire operating system, for about the same price (or often considerably less!)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Elinvynia »

michaelmrose wrote: post #177
mxcrossr wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out

Life is expensive and getting more expensive every day. The median home price is twice as expensive as when sublime released for $70 in 2008. Everything from a car to a loaf of bread is more expensive and your developer needs pay for housing and loaves of bread too. As it stands the new permanent price of 99 is only 41% higher than in 2008.

Yet wages didn't rise at the same speed as those expenses...

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

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.

Thank your for bringing into the world this beautiful tool. I paid for ST2, ST3 and SM and it brought a lot of joy into my work. I'm more into VSCode now (ST python editing experience has been lagging behind), but I keep ST close for out of project editing.

I hope one day you will release your UI toolkit. Since it's crossplateform, fast, and plug into Python, it could be a wonderful alternative to PyQT, wxWidget and the like, and we really need something in the Python world.

Good luck to ST4.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by scubbo »

stephenr wrote: post #185

I'd love to use a lighter (in terms of resources) editor like this, but after using IDEA (not for java - but it's the single Jetbrains tool that supports all other language packs) the editor in this feels like comparing a car to a bicycle. Sure, the bicycle starts off quicker, and you feel so much quicker. But that's where the benefits end, IMO. I just opened up a client project with this (that project is a mixture o…

+1. Sublime is a fantastic lightweight text editor, but the version that I've used simply isn't an IDE. Excited to see what new features are in this one, though!
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