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I still like Sublime Text

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by kstrauser »

submeta wrote: post #55
kstrauser wrote: post #40

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I love BBEdit, but it has one limitation that drives me batty: it has far fewer syntax highlighting scopes than many other editors. It’s simply not possible to make it as pretty and color as others, and that’s something I personally value. I have to look at a code editor all day, and I want it to look snazzy. I know it’s minor and petty, but it stills grates on me every time I fire it up.

Yeah, it‘s from another era. The concept of beatiful code came up with TextMate, Sublime, VS Code. And old editors tried to catch up, but didn’t really make it. But I have a nice-ish theme in BBEdit for markdown, and I‘m ok. I don’t code in it. Just plain text editing, using it as a scratchpad. It’s open all day long.

That’s totally reasonable. And I know that’s a goofy hill to die on, when it’s otherwise architecturally beautiful.

But darn it, even if it turned out to be my perfect car, I don’t want to drive an Aztek.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by sandbags »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #139
donatj wrote: post #132

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Where is one time purchase available? The only option I see is $99 for three years.

The license does not expire after 3 years, it is perpetual, but it doesn't apply to versions released more than 3 years after your purchase. If you don't want any newer features or fixes you can simply turn off updates. We warn you before updating to a version not covered by your license.

How did you arrive at this model?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ok_computer »

fauria wrote: post #287
Klaster_1 wrote: post #259

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I've been a Sublime Text user for ten years, bought it and Sublime Merge multiple times. A year ago, I permanently moved to VSCode because of three things: 1. Solid coding AI integration with frequent improvements. Sublime Text at best gives you an option to plug an LSP with modest capabilities. It's behind the times. 2. Small community, infrequent extension updates. 3. Limited UI capabilities. Extensions have to con…

Those are actually some of the reasons why I use Sublime.

Yeah I have accessibility/distraction issues with all the flair and animations and small text in vs code.

I know all text editors need some degree of config to be comfortable but sublime is nearly immediately usable. Vs code is the only thing I need to configure to remove flair and features vs extend them.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by geerlingguy »

Been using it and upgrading each new version. One of the best software applications I've ever used that's both multi platform and actually-good on every platform, not just a skinned web app like Photoshop

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by mikepurvis »

robin_reala wrote: post #163
the_duke wrote: post #138

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> 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.

I do this with Notepad++ and honestly I have mixed feelings about it. It's so convenient but I feel weird about constantly pasting semi-important notes and snippets into this unnamed, unsaved, unsynced doc that just sits there always open on my desktop.

Basically I just feel guilty that I'm not using a "proper" note taking application when so many of them exist.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by pxoe »

robin_reala wrote: post #163
the_duke wrote: post #138

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> 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.

>never loses

That was not my experience with sublime because it'd just spontaneously lose a session along with all unsaved data. Some other people would have similar problems too (just look up 'sublime lost session', and apparently people are still having these kinds of problems with them complaining even quite recently).

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ok_computer »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Hi, I just renewed my sublime text and merge licenses after starting in 2021. Thank you for sticking to simple product excellence and not following trends. Thanks for focusing on the editor for human users and not pushing some service based enterprise licensing system or ai tooling where the company aspires to 1000x. It’s a great product and my most used PC software.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by csimon80 »

catwell wrote: post #136
ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011. I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim... ) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the remote development experience. I work in AI so we typically work over SSH on machines with big GPUs. Most of my colleagues use VSCode because it has a very good Remote Development extension.

My preference is that it could use .ssh/config to explore the remote machine and then open/edit the file/dir.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by dividedbyzero »

I don't really use it as a (lightweight) IDE or the like anymore, but as a place to keep unstructured notes and snippets and the like because SublimeText never ever loses anything unsaved. It's pretty much indispensable at this point, whenever I compose something a bit longer or have some text to do a search-replace on or just some text I need three steps later in what I'm doing, it goes in another tab in Sublime. I have at least one tab I re-use since before Covid-19, it's absolutely fantastic how stable it is. Love it for that.
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