I am huge sublime text fan, and have updated my license, one thing that I would like to see is an official and better vim emulation extension, I know there is vintage package but it is far from being useful, and then there are other vim emulation packages that are not making proper use of sublime powers, so I would like to see a better and newer vintage package
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#272Anyone know of a good vi plugin for sublime ? The last time I tried, all the plugins were significantly laggy and while nvim was functionally complete, it had this annoying behavior of switching out of insert mode if sublime lost focus. Apparently that's by design too. Sublime itself was super snappy though. unfortunately a good vi/vim mode is a requirement for me.
NeoVintageous is the one I landed on after trying... - vintage mode - sublimesix - actualvim
NeoVintageous is the most complete, up-to-date Sublime Vim plug-in. It is a fork (I think?) of Vintagous, whose author went on to make Six, both of which now seem abandoned.
NeoVintageous comes with many more features out of the box (Vim plugins like Abolish, Surround and Sneak!). Since choosing it I haven't had to install or do any additional tweaks (apart from customizing a few settings).
Highly recommended!
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#273I've been using ST4 (beta) last few weeks ago, trying to move away from VS Code. I used to use ST2/3 before moving to Atom and then VS Code.
My experience so far:
- Feels so much faster (as expected, but still faster than VS Code - I'm on M1 MBA)
- Settings are still in JSON instead of GUI
- There's no scrollbar markers [1]
- I was struggling set up the system-based light/dark mode color scheme and theme, wished that it was easier.
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#274Hello 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.
Sublime is awesome, thanks! I've purchased an upgrade straight away. Can you pretty please fix the issue where files deleted/renamed outside sublime are shown as unsaved? It often ends up with a lot of wasted debugging time until I realise I'm working on the wrong file Please show "filename (deleted)" on the title, instead of "filename •". Thanks!
Very much this, this is basically my only gripe with Sublime Text!
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#275I love their philosophy of ever improving performance and memory usage. Sublime is one of the last gem resisting Wirth's Law.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Тhere is a story about a Jewish tailor whom it took 1 month to sew the pants. So the customers tells him Look it took god 7 days to build the world and you were making pants for a month... And the tailor answers Yes, but look at this world and now look at these pants... Same here.
I laughed. A lot.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
You almost definitely speak the truth, but that kind of attitude towards performance is why so many apps are so awful to use now. Especially if you can’t afford the newest Mac.
The one I’m using is $1000. That’s a bit pricey, but strikes me as reasonable value for money. Especially since this is the best performing laptop I’ve ever used. I get what you’re saying though. Many folks might only have budgets in the range of $500-800. With any luck, other manufacturers get their shit together.
Some people have budgets of $0; they have to use the device they're using currently. I'm already feeling empathy for them in a year or two once all their apps are written by software engineers on Apple silicon Macs who don't test performance on older hardware…
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#278I am huge sublime text fan, and have updated my license, one thing that I would like to see is an official and better vim emulation extension, I know there is vintage package but it is far from being useful, and then there are other vim emulation packages that are not making proper use of sublime powers, so I would like to see a better and newer vintage package
I’ve found NeoVimtageous to be a good stand in
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#279I'm blown away by how snappy this is. It always is, but it's even better now. This is really impressive work. I don't think I'm the target audience here. I just spent 30m trying to tune this for a TypeScript project, and I can't seem to easily get eslint, prettier, and a few other tools working. I added the TypeScript language server package, but it doesn't offer any of the effortless reference navigation and refacto…
Sublime can definitely be that kind of editor, but requires quite a lot of setup in some cases. There is a language server plug-in, which (IMO) is not straight forward to customize or even setup, with very little feedback when something goes wrong (broken LS implementation, or misconfiguration). However, when it does finally work, it's super snappy and clean.
The philosophy of Sublime is almost opposite to VS Code and other IDEs. Instead of everything enabled by default, everything is simple and lightweight by default. Then you add your own things on top.
I mostly see it as analogous to programming, where I too prefer to start simple and add things I control on top and where I understand the whole stack. Compared to picking a huge framework which lets me get started but where I don't understand the hundreds of layers beneath.
Since I use Sublime Text since years, and plan to use it for years to come, I see it as an investment to learn the underlaying functionality and eco system from the ground up. It makes me a better and more productive programmer in the long run.
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#280Had to run the following command to make "press and hold keys to repeat" work. (for example holding down the e key will create eeeeeeeeeeeeeee, instead of an option menu to choose eêíë)
defaults write com.sublimetext.4 ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false