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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by gilbertbw »

blackfawn wrote: post #187
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

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 sy…

That’s not a fair comparison. Windows has much more general appeal than a text editor, so many more sales to pay off R&D.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by dawnerd »

amatecha wrote: post #155
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.

I mean... I would hope pretty much anything opens ~instantly on the most absolute cutting edge custom-designed SoC from one of the richest companies in the world. hahah ;)

Spotify must have missed the memo because it's by far the slowest app on my computer.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ncann »

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…

For the last point, you can double click on a line in the search result page and it will open the file for you. I have to admit I don't particularly enjoy this search UI either, it's rather unintuitive, plus somewhat annoying as well since when you do a new search, if you don't remember to close the search result page the new search results will be appended to the existing page, which isn't what I want most of the time.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by LAC-Tech »

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 switched to sublime text because VSCode makes you write

  /**
   * Block comments like this
   */
where as I wanted to write

  /**
    Block comments like this
  */
Seems like a trivial thing but it irritated the hell out of me. I didn't want the editor to put little asterisks in. I didn't ask it to. But it did.

Sublime Text just does what I ask.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by iamcreasy »

trosi wrote: post #199
iamcreasy wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)?

> For example, if I am using Julia/R I want side panel that shows all my current variables in memory. Mind sharing how you do this in R? Thanks!

I was thinking about something similar to the Environment panel in RStudio. You can also see all variables in a given session using ls()

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by arvindamirtaa »

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.

Do you have any plans to add first class support for SSH based or docker based remote development workflows?

The current Rsubl implementation kinda works. But is a bit hacky for reliable everyday work.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by onei »

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 can see personal licenses get the 3 years worth of updates that you've mentioned elsewhere in the comments here. However, business licenses get 1 year of use before it expires, but I can't tell if that includes upgrades from ST3 to ST4. Can you clarify what the status is for that?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #142
FlyingSnake wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any plans to open source the GUI system? It could be a hugely beneficial for a set of cross platform apps. Thanks a lot for creating this piece of software art. I’m a user since the v1 and no matter what the editor du jour is, I always fallback to ST and Vim.

This question has been asked a lot, so thankfully I've got an easy answer: You don't actually want to build on top of our UI toolkit. We make breaking changes all the time, there's very little documentation and no release cycle at all. This isn't a problem for us as we have in-house knowledge and can fix any breakages trivially, but you don't want every open source project to have to maintain it's own fork of a UI to…

I completely support this. I write a ton of open-source software, and have many published packages.

Each one that I publish is a Responsibility. Like a parent that has children, the package is no longer “completely mine.” All changes and fixes are made, keeping in mind that someone may be dependent upon my work.

I’ve been writing SDKs -literally- my entire career (I can link to my very first engineering project, in 1987, where I designed a hardware system, and a companion SDK).

A perfectly legitimate reason for keeping code private, is that I am not willing to support it for any use, other than my own personal use.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by beermonster »

SNosTrAnDbLe wrote: post #150
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.

Thanks for introducing the multi select feature in text editing. There may have been other editors before which had but Sublime was where I first encountered this and where it felt natural. It has saved me countless keystrokes! I use VS Code now but it has started getting slower and it may be time to go back to sublime!

IMHO, VS Code makes for a fine cross-platform IDE (for those that like IDEs) but is a bit heavy-weight as a text editor. I tend to use them both in different situations. If I want something that is FAST on very large files or projects, with superb language support for large numbers of languages and markdown - I use ST.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ghhhhhk8899jj »

dawnerd wrote: post #69
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…

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

For now... Wait a few months/a year and they will find a reason to "take advantage" of that increase in performance and slow it back down again.
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