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Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swah »

veidr wrote: post #166
SCdF wrote: post #149

I'm not near a computer at the moment, can any body tell me how the performance is with very large files (>20mb) compared to the previous releases? If there was one thing that disappointed me about ST2 it was that it wasn't very competent with massive log files and the like. ATM I use an ide for Java, ST2 for nearly everything else (other languages, random text) and less / vi / others for logs and other massive files…

I just opened a 49.8MB log file and the ST3 beta took 6 seconds to open it. The app can open/edit other files while this initial loading happens. For fun I tried some other editors (this is on OS X): BBEdit 10.5: instant vim 7.3: instant TextEdit 1.8: instant Textmate 2.0.0a9351: hung the entire app for 15 seconds ST2: 9 seconds So yeah, ST3 still seems to fare pretty poorly in this regard.

Probably something related to the new symbol parsing?

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by antihero »

rogerbinns wrote: post #77
psykotic wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that what's I was describing. It works just fine. When I tab back to Sublime, I get the " has changed on disk. Do you want to reload it?" modal dialog box. (If there are no unsaved changes in the Sublime buffer that could be clobbered, it just reloads the file silently as you'd expect.)

It didn't work when I tried a few weeks ago. I am running on Linux.

Works fine for me, on Linux. Mine usually just changes it to the new contents without a modal, but Ctrl-Z can reverse.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swah »

Happy for the guy having delivered.

There are some nice changes, but not the ones that would make great extensions (like those in Emacs world) possible/easier to write.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swah »

nnq wrote: post #182

...what I'd kill for in ST would be a nice code browser that also properly shows nested function in Javascript and other languages that support them (like Idea does). It really makes a difference if you're trying to make sense of some else's messy code base and you happen to be a visual thinker like me.

...me too. I thought it would go to that side, allowing IDE-like plugins to be written, takiong some of Emacs mindshare on that space.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by theallan »

pbreit wrote: post #189
mattmanser wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's what I'd love someone to organize: A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay Microsoft to make Windows open-source. If Windows becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with Windows, especially those coming from a Linux background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.

Is that a reasonable comparison? No.

Why not? Its the same principle just a question of scale.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swah »

alvesjnr wrote: post #174

I really like ST, it is the first text editor that I use for more than 1 year in a row. But 70 Dollars is really expensive in my point of view. I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to version 3 (paying upgrade).

30 to upgrade.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swah »

pretoriusB wrote: post #2

Wow! Does that man ever sleep? And I thought 2 development has slowed down after release (sparse new dev builds etc). We'll have Sublime Text 3 before Textmate 2 beta 2.

But its pretty much ST2...

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by swdunlop »

xentronium wrote: post #105
swdunlop wrote: post #18

"API: Upgraded from Python 2.6 to Python 3.3" Oh god, I've got some plugin fixing to do..

How much effort is required to maintain the same code base compatible between 2.6 and 3.3? Non-python guy here.

Python's "2to3" utility helps a lot with the mechanical parts, like spotting renamed modules or print statements. After that, it's a chore of hunting down small semantic changes involving strings. Since everything in Sublime Text should be using the same flavor of string, at least that part should be straightforwards.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Beta

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Post by grundprinzip »

I personally find the 70$ price tag rather high for a text editor. However, this is not my main issue For this premium price I do not only expect features but as well documentation and if you are a plugin developer the current ST2 documentation is just plain bad because it misses too much. In addition, even though ST2 is highly configurable nowhere are all the options explained that you can use and manually set. I fins this rather annoying and think this was something to fix along the ST2 life cycle.

I'm not sure if the beta will conivince me in paying another 30$ for hope that this will some days come.

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