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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by flyosity »

xutopia wrote: post #20

I take heed when so many people are fans of something but after trying it out I feel like I'm missing out on what makes this editor so awesome. Can someone explain to me why this is better than Textmate, MacVim or UltraEdit?

I was a long-time TextMate user. The main advantage that ST has of TM is that the Go To Anything (files, functions in a file) feature is much, much faster than TextMate's. It also shows you the contents of files as you type, so you can sneak a peek at a file, copy some text, without actually opening the file in a new tab. The full project search has a less native-looking interface than TM but it's faster, especially on huge projects.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by michaels0620 »

hemancuso wrote: post #24
ableal wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For one, the mini-map feature. I believe it was fairly unique a few years ago, don't know if it still is.

mini-map should be turned off by default. What a kitschy "feature"

At first I thought it was a bit silly eye candy but I have found that it really is useful for longer documents. In longer documents and code, the syntax highlighting along with the "shape" of the document gives a nice "gestalt" sense of things.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by kgen »

Does anyone know how to tweak the windowing behaviour so that it doesn't open up all your previous windows (or group the new file in the same window as your other project)? Other than the lack of usable options, it's pretty nice!

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by gnaritas »

xentronium wrote: post #25
xutopia wrote: post #20

I take heed when so many people are fans of something but after trying it out I feel like I'm missing out on what makes this editor so awesome. Can someone explain to me why this is better than Textmate, MacVim or UltraEdit?

It's basically the same thing as textmate, only actively updated and with some extra features. For me, the main advantage over textmate is split-screen layout.

And runs on Linux, unlike Textmate.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by atomi »

kgen wrote: post #43

Does anyone know how to tweak the windowing behaviour so that it doesn't open up all your previous windows (or group the new file in the same window as your other project)? Other than the lack of usable options, it's pretty nice!

Try adding

  "hot_exit": false
to Preferences>Global Settings - User

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by swah »

vrde wrote: post #9

I didn't know (until now) Sublime Text. I don't want to seem inquisitive, but it looks a lot like VIM. I thought it was VIM, or a human-friendly version of it. I took a look to http://www.sublimetext.com/features and many of the features listed are available on a vanilla VIM. Many, if not all, except "Asynchronous file loading, so you're never blocked when loading files off slow network drives", "WinSCP integration f…

I don't think it feels or looks like Vim or Emacs at all, in its default configuration. It is much more on the "new Textmate" spirit.

That said, there is an emulation mode now, Vintage.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by kgen »

hemancuso wrote: post #24
ableal wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For one, the mini-map feature. I believe it was fairly unique a few years ago, don't know if it still is.

mini-map should be turned off by default. What a kitschy "feature"

It's a decent and useful feature, the only real issue I have with it is the empty space underneath. When you have a short document, I find myself clicking on that empty space to get to the end of the line and then being confused as to why it's scrolling the document. Perhaps it should be a slightly different color than the main document.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

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Post by jeffmincey »

gnaritas wrote: post #44
xentronium wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's basically the same thing as textmate, only actively updated and with some extra features. For me, the main advantage over textmate is split-screen layout.

And runs on Linux, unlike Textmate.

and Windows, unlike Textmate
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