Sometimes when the OS built in search does not work I Open the directory in Sublime and use it as search tool.
I still like Sublime Text
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Re: I still like Sublime Text
#232Using Sublime Text since version 2, one of my relatively recent discoveries has been the Markdown Images Plugin[1], which renders images inline (rather than in a separate preview, as other editors do). I find it extremely convenient to include images alongside text, such as diagrams and schematics for work, photos of goods in a shopping list, and inspiration collections for hobby projects, etc. When combined with a s…
I've installed that plugin too, thanks for the recommendation. That said, installing it did show a big concern I have, maybe not so much for this plugin but for many others; its last release was in 2022, and many plugins I used to use back in 2012 haven't seen updates since 2016-17, roughly around the time VS Code became the most popular editor. I fear community support of plugins will become a major issue. I mean as long as the APIs etc don't change it's not a problem if these plugins are "done", but it just looks like things are no longer maintained and ST is a "dead" editor.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#233Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
I’d happily pay again if you come up with remote editing like VSCode has. It’s the killer feature. You can forbid me from using any of its extensions and turn off syntax highlighting, but as long as I can connect somewhere over SSH and still have the latency of local editing, I’d be using it.
That said, it seems like in 2025 AD the LSP client should come baked in and integrated, with configurations for how to start individual LSP servers possibly shipping on the side. I liked how the whole Go shebang was accessible in Zed in one click, same in VSCode.
That all said, I still use Sublime Text whenever I can.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never get asked. It’s obvious. Just open a 4Gb log file as a developer. All my developers have it.
VSCode is just as fast for opening 4 GB log files
It is not just about the opening, it is about the searching. Vim is fantastique, although VSCode got faster over time too. Grep is fantastic too (I am not trying to out-hardcore here ... I mean specifically for log file searching not actual coding!). Splunk is better though, but sometimes you are local, and sometimes you don't have a few mill to burn.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#235I also use ST and use browser if I need some AI assisted coding. What about you guys? Is using IDEs with native AI coding plugin a good reason to switch away from ST?
If anything, ST taught me that I didn't actually need an IDE to be productive, but mind you this was in the years where JS became huge but didn't have good editor support yet.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#236Sublime was going great at some point and I guess the dev burned out churning new releases every week. So it got abandoned for a good amount of time. Something like 2 years. At the same time Atom and VsCode came in with all the good ideas from Sublime. I hope they made tens of millions during the height of its popularity.
They are a company and they are still good. They changed their licensing model for v4 onwards. I have been using it for most of my note keeping and lite code editing tasks and its excellent as always. I think they can still get back to the old hype if they choose to use typescript for their plugin system. A lot of vscode plugins can be ported that way I hope
I doubt they'd want to create a schism and add a JS engine on top of the existing stuff. That said, Atom and VS Code's plugins being JS based was a huge benefit for them as at the time millions of developers started their career with or switched to using JS and web technology for their day job with webapps and nodejs.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#237I don't use ST3 as my daily driver (I use BBEdit instead - still not on the VSCode train), but I do use it for lots of random editing and scratch needs. Shameless plug - I wrote a plugin ages ago which makes it possible to replace and sort text using Python code ( https://nneonneo.github.io/sublime-replace-with-python/ ). This little plugin has been incredibly useful for certain tasks, and serves both as a useful pro…
Why BBEdit? What languages do you code in?
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#238Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
I bought sublime text 3 over a decade ago. What are the top new features of sublime text 4 that make it worth upgrading too?
We list the big ones on our front page:
* GPU rendering
* Apple & Linux arm64 support
* Tab multi-select
* context-aware auto-complete
* TypeScript, TSX and JSX syntax support
* Much more powerful syntax engine
* Adding python 3.8 for plugins
* Syntax-aware code folding
* Mixed-indentation highlighting ("draw_white_space" setting)
* Kinetic scrolling on Linux
* Preserved undo history
* Change-aware white-space trimming
* Asynchronous file saving
* Find result highlighting in the scroll bar
* Find-in-files filtering by gitignoreRe: I still like Sublime Text
#239Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
Sublime user for many many years now. I've tried VSCode many times, never liked it. I use Cursor a bit now but still prefer Sublime. Thank you for building it!
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#240I don't use ST3 as my daily driver (I use BBEdit instead - still not on the VSCode train), but I do use it for lots of random editing and scratch needs. Shameless plug - I wrote a plugin ages ago which makes it possible to replace and sort text using Python code ( https://nneonneo.github.io/sublime-replace-with-python/ ). This little plugin has been incredibly useful for certain tasks, and serves both as a useful pro…
> Shameless plug - I wrote a plugin ages ago which makes it possible to replace and sort text using Python code [...]
I've been trying out Lite XL, and I have a crude (WIP) plugin that can pipe selected text thru any shell command (sed, sort, etc), and either output to a new buffer, or replace the selection. Then I started writing some scripts to supply the commands I miss from Emacs, like align-regexp. Since it's just shell commands, you can write them in any language.
I'm not sure if I like Lite XL, but the scripts I already wrote would be easily reusable in any editor that supports piping selections. Perhaps it would be a fun project to create a collection of such portable scripts, sort of like what LSP did.