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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by CrazyStat »

bouke wrote: post #376
shaicoleman wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't solve the issue. To make things clearer, here's how you replicate it: * Open file1.txt in sublime. This shows up as "file1.txt" in Sublime. * In the terminal: mv file1.txt file1a.txt * Back in Sublime it will show "file1.txt •" as if it's modified and unsaved. Saving that file will now recreate that file, and you'll end up duplicating the file and editing the wrong file. Instead, what should happen is wh…

I’d say if the file got renamed, the editor should just use the new filename. The name of the file is just metadata, not its identity.

How is the editor supposed to know the new filename?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by pama »

gofreddygo wrote: post #87
dawnerd wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to take any thunder away from Sublime but VSCode basically opens instantly on M1.

Sublime opens just as fast On my, 2015 Macbook pro (16 GB RAM) and my 2012 Macbook pro (2 GB RAM). Instantly. Nothing else on my 2012 Mac opens that fast. Not MacVim. Not emacs. Not TextEdit. Not even the terminal.

Emacsclient is instant on any hardware I ever tried since the early 90s. I don’t understand why people differentiate below the 100ms level.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bouke »

CrazyStat wrote: post #391
bouke wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d say if the file got renamed, the editor should just use the new filename. The name of the file is just metadata, not its identity.

How is the editor supposed to know the new filename?

Try renaming a file from the Finder currently open in Numbers (macOS). Notice how Numbers picks up the new name. So definitely possible, on macOS at least.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by cdmckay »

rococode wrote: post #49
SavantIdiot wrote: post #40

I feel bad using VSCode after years of supporting Sublime (by purchasing a license). However the one case where I do use sublime repeatedly? When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. It boots faster than VSCode, and frankly, it finally broke me of my constant habit of VIMming now that I have it on my mac, win and linux boxes. I am eager to try V4, but I'm so deep in VSCode now, I don't know if I can find my way out! I c…

To me, VSCode competes with IDEs, Sublime competes with text editors. Startup speed accounts for a solid 95% of that distinction. If I need to make a quick edit to a file or write down a temporary (but reasonably persistent) note, the only tools I've tried that let me do that in less than 3 seconds are Sublime, Notepad, and Notepad++. Among those choices, Sublime is the clear winner in overall usefulness and function…

Maybe I'm weird, but I don't usually close VS Code, so this isn't an issue for me.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ThePhysicist »

I changed back to Sublime after using VSCode because the UI is just significantly snappier. VSCode has a ton more features but personally I don't think I need them, and the occasional lag when opening files or typing drove me mad. Sublime provides a perfect compromise between terminal-based editors like vim and fully-fledged IDEs, IMHO.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jffry »

popotamonga wrote: post #382
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…

All nice i use it a lot but why does it take way too many seconds to open large files? And its not the cpu i have top cpu ram and ssds.

A plausible explanation is that it's doing some kind of preprocessing of the file into a data structure that allows for faster or more responsive scrolling and editing of huge files. For example a rope or similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by globular-toast »

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.

UltraEdit is probably the best text editor there is. Not the best IDE or anything, just the best text editor. It seems thoroughly underappreciated, though, for some reason.

It's the only editor I'm aware of that can do do disk-based editing, that is you can open a file of multiple gigabytes quickly and edit it because it doesn't load the whole file into RAM.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by JaggerJo »

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.

> I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here.

Just from looking at the screenshots on their site I wouldn't install it (because of it's ugly UI).

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mekkkkkk »

I recently discovered that a friend of mine was a big fan of Sublime. Said friend doesn't do any coding, and isn't at all technical, so I was curious. Turns out that it's used a lot by their circle of colleagues in the editorial text world as a fast and approachable tool for bulk editing large, raw text files (as in manuscripts, books, manuals, etc.). Makes sense!

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by zamadatix »

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.

Any chance of a Windows ARM64 version since macOS/Linux have one?
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