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Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by baskethead »

heelix wrote: post #36

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight co…

Yep, me too. I bought ST2, got the free upgrade to ST3, and recently paid for ST4. I install it across my Windows and Mac computers and it’s still great. It’s my go to text editor for years now.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by Daunk »

I love Sublime, but I've always felt like the whole "package" system is a bit of a mess. There's no consistent anywhere either, working with one build system is usually not the same as in the next one. I feel like VS Code does this part a lot better, which is why I use Sublime as a general text browser and VS Code where I do all my serious remote coding.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by panta82 »

henning wrote: post #15

I recently tried Sublime again. It feels much snappier and more responsive than VS Code. Very enjoyable to use.

I agree.

I know new engine is supposed to speed up rendering, but on my linux boxes, everything feels slightly slower than before.

Not a big deal for an IDE or IDE light, but for what I use sublime for (quick text editing), it's a disappointing change.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by indentit »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #38

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

Pretty sure you're the best thing to happen to ST since Will joined the team :)

What's your test suite like? Whenever something is regressed in a dev build, do you try to cover it with tests? Or are the UI side of things not tested in an automated fashion?

What are the plans for matching VSCode's useful features, like the one whereby all syntaxes can inject themselves into Markdown fenced code blocks etc?

It'd be great to see some better SQL syntax highlighting support - I saw a community effort on the Packages repo aiming to address this. Will there be a way to switch "active" sql dialect? Or configure it per project?

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by PascLeRasc »

helmholtz wrote: post #40
tehbeard wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daily driving to do what type of work exactly? I've been using VS Code for years now, and while it is measurably slower (I still use sublime to handle ad-hoc grepping log files as code just won't handle that, and scrollable, highlighting and multicursor is MUCH better than smacking bash pipes together), the batteries included "It just works" approach of code means I don't really see a reason to head back. Maybe it's…

I've meant to ask this for a while, so I'll try here. Doesn't anyone else feel overwhelmed with VS Code? I've used it off and on for years and I still don't understand the hopelessly confusing settings menu, the several json files, or the unintuitive left sidebar. Somehow it just doesn't come together in my brain. Nor the confusing choice for tab colours where the foreground tab feels background. If I want to edit co…

I’m the same way, VS Code is very hard for me to use. I quite literally don’t get what’s going on. I don’t know which is faster benchmark-wise, but I work much more efficiently in Atom and Sublime than VSC.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by PascLeRasc »

heelix wrote: post #36

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight co…

Throwing this out here since you mentioned it - does anyone else get tons of hangups and temporary frozen windows using Sublime with unsaved files? I’ve always had this on a bunch of different Macs and some Linux machines. I don’t like working around by saving either, sometimes I just want a scratchpad.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by ben-schaaf »

panta82 wrote: post #43
henning wrote: post #15

I recently tried Sublime again. It feels much snappier and more responsive than VS Code. Very enjoyable to use.

I agree. I know new engine is supposed to speed up rendering, but on my linux boxes, everything feels slightly slower than before. Not a big deal for an IDE or IDE light, but for what I use sublime for (quick text editing), it's a disappointing change.

Note that OpenGL rendering isn't enabled by default. If you've enabled it and it's slower I'd love to find out why, otherwise without it enabled the rendering hasn't changed.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

dahfizz wrote: post #23
whalesalad wrote: post #17

I still daily drive Sublime. I haven’t found an editor with less latency. It’s so fast and so consistent. VS Code feels like Eclipse in comparison.

Vim with my plugins in the terminal is noticeably faster than vanilla sublime for me. Sublime feels like Vim does over a good SSH connection. Its definitely good, but whatever magic terminal emulators use is definitely faster.

Which Terminal do you use with vim?
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