Sublime is blazingly fast for all its features. I hope there will be similar UI for NeoVim in the near future (no Electron please). There is OniVim, but it dropped the NeoVim as an engine, which is quite sad.
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#312I bought the license for sublime text 3 in which feels like forever ago but it turns out that it was only 2.5 years ago and I could use ST4 without having to purchase it.
Amazing. The product is amazing and I love the improvements. Before the language support for Elixir for example was kind of poor and it's vastly improved now.
I feel very excited to run this new version onwards.
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#314Hello 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.
How difficult would it be to make a Sublime-Text-for-terminals?
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#315Hello 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.
Could you give a high-level description about what does sublime do in order to handle large files?
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#316Hello 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 this, I absolutely like it for the most parts. My only complain with Sublime is that if I have 100s of unnamed tabs opened, it gets very difficult to find a particular tab. I wish there was somewhat better tab organisation possible. Maybe there are some plug-ins, I did check last time when I was frustrated with it. Does anyone else face this issue or have I been using it wrong?
You can use it however you like, but the moment I get to so many tabs open I can't read the titles of all of them is the moment I know I have too many tabs open and just start closing old ones, likely with "close others" action.
You have ctrl tab and alt-# but once tab names are no longer visible/readable I don't see the reason to keep so many open. I think the filetree view is exactly how 100s of files should be organized for finding a file you can't remember the name of or ctrl-p for quickly opening a file you do
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#317Hello 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.
Hey there, subl is absolutely the best when you quickly need to open and edit a huge file. You cannot, however, do that when the file only has 1 line. Do you think it might be possible to get that fixed at some point? Opening a 1 line 1GB file on a modern machine brings subl to a complete halt and regex editing is sheer impossible.
This is a known limitation that we're looking at addressing in future updates.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the same support we supply for every language. Syntax highlighting drives our goto-definition, goto-symbol, auto-complete and more.
From the announcement text, I assumed Language Server support as well. Not your fault, since you haven't mentioned it specifically. However, Language Server is way more than syntax support and a huge time saver for Typescript developers. You'll need it to attract Typescript developers, especially since your customers are likely to be advanced users.
There's a package for it at least.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
For people not fortunate enough to own an M1, it’s a slow to start typical Electron app. Don’t get me wrong, I love and use VS Code. But performance isn’t in the same league. Sublime Text basically does what you describe above on ANY hardware.
Anecdotal, but on my Intel/Windows laptop, VSCode opens instantly and has my sizable project loaded in I have one Electon app that I wrote myself and it's pretty fast as well even though it deals with a boatload of things, and I didn't really put any special effort in to achieve that. Both on my current laptop (which is admittedly a 10th gen i7) and my older one (8th gen i5). Not to say that Sublime doesn't load fast…
It doesn't open instantly on my work (Windows) desktop. But then I don't care as I generally open it and leave it open all day.
Same with Spacemacs. because of the way processes are more expensive on Windows, Emacs/Spacemacs is many order of magnitude slower than it is on *nix (the other places I use it). I tolerate it as I can't live without magit and Org and other staples.
I find the crappy Slack app (another Electron app) is also slow to open, load and update. So much so, I prefer to use their web client in a browser.
Anecdotal, also, but that's two Electron apps which are sluggish on fairly recent (3 years) hardware.
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#320Is there a good reason that I want to switch from IntelliJ if I'm satisfied with its functionality for web development except that I feel a lighter tool is certainly welcome.
Usually what lighter editors miss is auto completions on SQL fragments as it has no ability to access remote database to analyze the table structures, so they end up as plain text fragment.