I was 100% with you... until 3 days ago I tried [Zed](https://zed.dev) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still like Sublime Text
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Re: I still like Sublime Text
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Long time Sublime customer here: Please, please do not add any LLM integrations. One of the main reasons I love Sublime is that I can just focus on writing code, without 100 distracting things popping in and popping out. Also, that I support a business with my money that does not spend resources on the LLM hype.
I am in the exact opposite boat - AI is significantly improving my programming flow and having to use VSCode (well, VSCodium in my case) rather than something lightweight like Sublime is suboptimal - I would love a good plugin for LLM integration ala Cody and frankly that's the only way I could see myself as a paying customer.
I'm in the best boat, I don't want to use LLM but I think ST having hooks to allow people to make such plugins (if those don't already exist) would be a fine thing. Luckily, that boat has loads of space and you're all invited :P
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#263I hard a hard time getting LSP to work with Neovim, had to give up. Didn't want to install yet another plug-in manager like Mason etc some of which go out of circulation or could be risky. Maybe I am below average. As it is free, I just use it without any extras although that is less productive of course.
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#264Thank you. Sublime text is my goto text editor. I code in VSCode but whenever I need to edit a text file I switch to Sublime text.
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#265The only gripe I have is I have like 100 project windows open and I need to look for it (ctrl+P only works within the project window). Otherwise, it’s pretty much a perfect editor. Maybe I’m missing a plugin.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but I immediately lost an important file Zed has an "autosave" setting, it's just off by default.
Sublime’s behaviour isn’t an autosave, it just never loses text in a window. You can upgrade the entire OS, start Sublime and your windows and text will be waiting for you, regardless of saved or unsaved state. I’ve got five-year-old scratchpad windows open that I’ve never saved.
VSCode does this as well.
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#267I write everything on All About Berlin in a souped up version of Sublime Text. I made my own color scheme for Markdown files, my own linters for the content, a build system to run the static site generator etc. I love just how fast I can move across hundreds of Markdown files, finding and replacing thimgs with regular expressions. It’s a night and day improvement over editing text in a CMS. I chose Sublime because it…
Thanks for your website, it helped me enormously.
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#268I used to love Sublime Text and used it for my daily driver. Even bought a license. But just downloaded it again, and while it definitely felt snappy, after 15 minutes I still couldn't find a way to get TypeScript type checking working, or even any type of JavaScript/TypeScript autocomplete.
If you are locked in to TypeScript, you are basically locked in to VSCode (albeit a "soft" lock-in).
Not really, I didn't see much difference between ST with all LSPs configured and VSCode. What features do you find missing?
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#269Using 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…
Welcome! I don't think the Sublime developers will change the plugin API dramatically at this point (@ben-schaaf is in this thread; we can ask him :) So, old plugins should remain compatible. What we should be concerned about is that if something new is invented, it will probably appear in a more widespread editors first. However, as practice shows, new plugins for Sublime continue to be created[1] so we are not missing lot.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#270I'm lazy, I don't want to leave the terminal.
Alt-tabbing (or cmd-Q if you’re done) back to your terminal window after running `subl` to edit a file is equivalent difficulty (as measured by keystrokes) to exiting nano or vim.
I'm on Linux and I just use one keystroke to switch (F2). I have F1 F2 F3 F4 keys binded to change to virtual desktops 1 2 3 4. 1 -> Console(s) 2 -> Editor (sublime) 3 -> Browser (Firefox) 4 -> Misc (File browser, other apps)