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Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by siodine »

cageface wrote: post #15
siodine wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Go and Haskell support is better in ST2 than in IntelliJ. For Python and Ruby, it depends. IntelliJ is unquestionably better for Java, though. Also, consider that ST2 is in its infancy and how developed its language support already is (see SublimeClang, for example). As ST2 becomes more popular, it might compete with the most developed IDEs.

And it will also become slow and bloated and people will move on to the next fast, lean editor that only needs feature x & y. Wash & repeat ad infinitum.

I think that's unlikely. ST2 is already exceptionally fast and complete as an editor. As an IDE, ST2 requires plugins. These plugins are written in Python (which can use libs written in C) as opposed to vimscript or elisp. Moreover, these plugins aren't required for editing text files (or having SublimeClang isn't going to significantly slow down editing python files).

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by willtheperson »

flixic wrote: post #18

It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory. Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?

I took a go at a replacement icon found here https://github.com/tw12lve/sublimetext2-icons

Feel free to submit your own as a pull request

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by steverandy »

mistercow wrote: post #19

>By default, the scope of autocomplete is only for the current file. “All Autocomplete Package” extends the scope to all open files in the current window. Slightly buggy (alas, so many Sublime packages are), but even so, I'm really glad to see a plugin that tackles my only major disappointment in ST2.

Can you point out what it is? So far I'm happy with it.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by steverandy »

willtheperson wrote: post #22
flixic wrote: post #18

It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory. Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?

I took a go at a replacement icon found here https://github.com/tw12lve/sublimetext2-icons Feel free to submit your own as a pull request

We need something other than an S key.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by fiblye »

willtheperson wrote: post #22
flixic wrote: post #18

It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory. Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?

I took a go at a replacement icon found here https://github.com/tw12lve/sublimetext2-icons Feel free to submit your own as a pull request

Maybe it's just me, but it almost seems like the 'S' is bigger towards the top, contrary to the perspective.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by mistercow »

steverandy wrote: post #23
mistercow wrote: post #19

>By default, the scope of autocomplete is only for the current file. “All Autocomplete Package” extends the scope to all open files in the current window. Slightly buggy (alas, so many Sublime packages are), but even so, I'm really glad to see a plugin that tackles my only major disappointment in ST2.

Can you point out what it is? So far I'm happy with it.

In my brief testing with some CoffeeScript files, I had a few autocomplete suggestions that got the last few letters clipped off. Not a big deal, but a little odd.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by collint »

cageface wrote: post #15
siodine wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Go and Haskell support is better in ST2 than in IntelliJ. For Python and Ruby, it depends. IntelliJ is unquestionably better for Java, though. Also, consider that ST2 is in its infancy and how developed its language support already is (see SublimeClang, for example). As ST2 becomes more popular, it might compete with the most developed IDEs.

And it will also become slow and bloated and people will move on to the next fast, lean editor that only needs feature x & y. Wash & repeat ad infinitum.

I'm only using ST2 because TM2 took forever to release and even the the alpha wasn't compelling.

So I'm much more worried about developer fatigue than bloat in my editor choice.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by dbecker »

cageface wrote: post #2

I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration.

I tried switching from vim to PyCharm about a year ago. I found it incredibly slow.

With vim or ST2, I do my work and don't think about the editor keeping up. With PyCharm, my typing could briefly outrun the editor. The editor would catchup, but it was just distracting.

I don't think the IDE gave me any features that justified this distraction.

Re: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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Post by simplify »

flixic wrote: post #18

It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory. Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?

I personally use https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon
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