Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Sublime Text 3 Updated

sublimetext.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 90 posts

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#21

Post by Tyr42 »

wickchuck wrote: post #12

Anyone have a clue as to what were supposed to be able to do with this "Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe". I'm guessing it's mainly for a shorter exe name to add to your path when launching sublime from the command line, but maybe I'm missing something?

The reason it exists is for things like git, so they can launch the editor aimed at a commit message, then block until the editor closes and then continue.

It's also useful if you want to open the editor aimed at a file in the current directory without re-navigating there in the gui.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#22

Post by psychometry »

ceronman wrote: post #14

I love this editor and it makes me sad to see how the project is stalled. In 2002 the investors behind Blender launched the "Free Blender" campaign. They asked for 100,000 EUR as a one-time fee for open sourcing it. At the time the project was dying as a proprietary product. The investors got the money and today Blender is a healthy open source project. I would love to see something similar with Sublime Text. The aut…

A lot of ST users are former Textmate users, too. So we've certainly been through this rigamarole before.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#23

Post by ben336 »

dedward wrote: post #13
wickchuck wrote: post #12

Anyone have a clue as to what were supposed to be able to do with this "Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe". I'm guessing it's mainly for a shorter exe name to add to your path when launching sublime from the command line, but maybe I'm missing something?

It's just to launch the editor from the command-line. IT's nothing new - sublime text 2 (at least on OS X) had the "subl" command so you could launch an edit session from the cli.. I assumed the rest had the same. It's certainly not a new feature or anything to celebrate.

It is new on Windows.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#26

Post by gcassie »

wickchuck wrote: post #12

Anyone have a clue as to what were supposed to be able to do with this "Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe". I'm guessing it's mainly for a shorter exe name to add to your path when launching sublime from the command line, but maybe I'm missing something?

If it works like the OSX subl command, it integrates with git nicely so it can pause git commands to allow you edit commit messages in sublime and resume the command once you save. If you try to do this with standard exe in windows, the git command will run start to finish and you will not be able to edit the commit messages in sublime.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#27

Post by bithush »

polyvisual wrote: post #8

I've almost given up with Sublime Text. I have a bug with the Linux version on xubuntu which causes the application window to shudder when I scroll. It's something to do with smooth scrolling. I can't register at their forums as it requires a keyword which you can only get by emailing keyword@sublimetext.com - I've tried three times and each time I've been ignored. I've also tried email the other ST employee, but bee…

xyzzy3

edit: before anyone gives me shit for doing this it isn't exactly a big secret, it is a pretty poor way of 'securing' the forum. Just stick a captcha on it for gods sake.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#28

Post by aenario »

ben336 wrote: post #23
dedward wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just to launch the editor from the command-line. IT's nothing new - sublime text 2 (at least on OS X) had the "subl" command so you could launch an edit session from the cli.. I assumed the rest had the same. It's certainly not a new feature or anything to celebrate.

It is new on Windows.

not so much, you could always do sublime somedirectory and it will open it. It appears the novelty is the --help option and more importantly the --wait option, so you could include sublime in a script workflow (as a git commit editor ?)

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#29

Post by demetris »

polyvisual wrote: post #8

I've almost given up with Sublime Text. I have a bug with the Linux version on xubuntu which causes the application window to shudder when I scroll. It's something to do with smooth scrolling. I can't register at their forums as it requires a keyword which you can only get by emailing keyword@sublimetext.com - I've tried three times and each time I've been ignored. I've also tried email the other ST employee, but bee…

There is a setting that can help with the scrolling:

"scroll_speed": 0

I have it in my user preferences (on Debian Sid) and it works well for me.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

#30

Post by teilo »

psychometry wrote: post #22
ceronman wrote: post #14

I love this editor and it makes me sad to see how the project is stalled. In 2002 the investors behind Blender launched the "Free Blender" campaign. They asked for 100,000 EUR as a one-time fee for open sourcing it. At the time the project was dying as a proprietary product. The investors got the money and today Blender is a healthy open source project. I would love to see something similar with Sublime Text. The aut…

A lot of ST users are former Textmate users, too. So we've certainly been through this rigamarole before.

Textmate 2 did exactly what Blender did. Went open source, has a healthy developer community, and has had steady updates for a couple of years. They still call it "Alpha" but it is very stable and I use it every day.
Post reply on HN