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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by k__ »

nly wrote: post #300

It's software like Sublime that sustains my faith in the software industry and why I'm still a developer. It's beautiful, efficient software that single-handedly proves that desktop software in 2021 doesn't have to be a shit, low quality side show to SaaS "apps" and mobile. Heaven knows what their code looks like. Perhaps it's best it never goes open source so we can sustain the Opera-esque magic of a <10MB binary th…

At least the technolgy of those "shit, low quality side show SaaS apps and mobile" allowed people to build apps that wouldn't be able to do so before.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jokoon »

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232271

I love this editor, but this detail annoys me:

https://i.imgur.com/wu6ZfSa.png

Folding code with curly braces doesn't "eat" the brace. It's indent-based, not syntax based. There is a 2 or 3 years old issue on their github, and they don't plan to fix. A little annoying for a paying editor.

Here is the github issue: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/101

Maybe they fixed it and I did not look up new settings?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

jokoon wrote: post #342
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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232271 I love this editor, but this detail annoys me: https://i.imgur.com/wu6ZfSa.png Folding code with curly braces doesn't "eat" the brace. It's indent-based, not syntax based. There is a 2 or 3 years old issue on their github, and they don't plan to fix. A little annoying for a paying editor. Here is the github issue: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/101 Maybe…

This is in fact an issue we're going to address. We already have a large amount of work done towards it, but it didn't make it into this release.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by kwanbix »

nly wrote: post #300

It's software like Sublime that sustains my faith in the software industry and why I'm still a developer. It's beautiful, efficient software that single-handedly proves that desktop software in 2021 doesn't have to be a shit, low quality side show to SaaS "apps" and mobile. Heaven knows what their code looks like. Perhaps it's best it never goes open source so we can sustain the Opera-esque magic of a <10MB binary th…

I tried Sublime text and I really like it.

But I have been a user of UltraEdit for many many years (maybe 20?) and I still find it much more natural to use.

I found it while looking for an editor to replace Semware's Qedit (DOS).

I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here.

I do find Sublime's price much better than UltraEdit.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by perk »

jannes wrote: post #303
jandrewrogers wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice it doesn't work this way. Saying it is "unsupported" does not mean people will respect that boundary, nor will it prevent people from contacting you expecting your time and attention, which is what actually happens. There is significant overhead to open sourcing software.

People won’t respect the boundary if you host the code on github, because it’s just too easy to open issues or pull requests. However, what about just releasing a zip file with the sources and linking it on your downloads page?

Someone should make sourceavailable.com - A service that automatically pulls my private repos from GitHub and makes it available as open source to other programmers. A read only version of GitHub, without the isssue/PR overhead.

Code should be easy to read/download on https://sourceavailable.com/username/repo

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by nicoburns »

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.

Is there a reason why ST re-indexes everything on every update? (I'm fairly sure it didn't used to).

My workflow involves keeping 9 sublime projects open most of the time (damn microservices), and restarting sublime after an update makes my computer very slow (not unusable, not noticeably laggy) for 5-10mins each time.

Relatedly, sublime has an excellent changelog window, but it only shows up after you've already updated! It would be really nice if I could see the changelog before I decide whether to update or not...

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

matklad wrote: post #329
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.

Are there any plans regarding first class support for LSP (or, more generally and perhaps more useful, first class support for extensions providing semantic knowledge about the code)? I know that LSP plugin exists, but, anecdotally, folks are having trouble with it. Which i think is understandable https://lsp.sublimetext.io/features/ says Show Code Actions: UNBOUND, and this is the second most useful thing in LSP (th…

We've worked hard alongside the developers of the LSP plugin to improve support for it with ST4 and will be continue to do so in the future.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

nicoburns wrote: post #346
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.

Is there a reason why ST re-indexes everything on every update? (I'm fairly sure it didn't used to). My workflow involves keeping 9 sublime projects open most of the time (damn microservices), and restarting sublime after an update makes my computer very slow (not unusable, not noticeably laggy) for 5-10mins each time. Relatedly, sublime has an excellent changelog window, but it only shows up after you've already upd…

When the syntax definitions change, the symbols that need to get indexed change as well. Hence the project needs to be re-indexed. There are settings for controlling how many resources the indexer is allowed to use.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by choicenotchance »

kwanbix wrote: post #344
nly wrote: post #300

It's software like Sublime that sustains my faith in the software industry and why I'm still a developer. It's beautiful, efficient software that single-handedly proves that desktop software in 2021 doesn't have to be a shit, low quality side show to SaaS "apps" and mobile. Heaven knows what their code looks like. Perhaps it's best it never goes open source so we can sustain the Opera-esque magic of a <10MB binary th…

I tried Sublime text and I really like it. But I have been a user of UltraEdit for many many years (maybe 20?) and I still find it much more natural to use. I found it while looking for an editor to replace Semware's Qedit (DOS). I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here. I do find Sublime's price much better than UltraEdit.

Never heard of UltraEdit in 10yrs of my career, or came across it when searching for editors and IDEs.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Aeolun »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #317
Greaka wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not that any other editor but Vim seems to do this without issues, but it is one of the things the whole experience of Sublime leads me to believe would already be possible :)
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