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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by y0ssar1an »

ythn wrote: post #141
lvoudour wrote: post #136

Sublime is probably the first GUI text editor that left me satisfied. Everything else over the years was either non-portable, slow or lacking features. After two months of use I just had to buy it, it's worth the price. - It's fast and responsive, can handle large files and personally I've never seen it leaking memory or crashing - Love the goto anything and command palette, brilliant - Text editing is great and can…

I prefer VSCode if the hardware can handle it, but otherwise Sublime is my goto. If Sublime ever had as good Git support as VSCode I would permanently switch back to Sublime

If you want git support out of the box, please give me a thumbs up on this PR. https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/pull/1126 If you can read sublime-syntax files, code review is appreciated as well.

With this package, you can set Sublime to be your git editor like this:

  $ cat ~/.gitconfig
  [core]
    editor = subl -w
  ...

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by azemetre »

satysin wrote: post #21
microtonal wrote: post #14

In my experience, the beta had been stellar for ages. But now I can finally drop the money on them ;). Purchased the upgrade license at and incredibly modest price of $30.

Just checked and my upgrade cost is only $11 which I can't really argue with ;)

Where do you check? I'm still on the dev build which is one behind the release. I've tried updating in the editor but it states nothing is available. Seems odd that release is 3143 but dev is 3142.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by melq »

amelius wrote: post #347
coldtea wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not flaming, I genuinely want to know. I've tried Gedit, Atom, VS Code, Notepad++ and I fail to see what Sublime offers over those to justify the price. It's better than Gedit in every way, it's way faster and more lightweight than Atom and VS Code, and it has a far better plugin ecosystem and functionality than Notepad++. I'd pay triple the price.

> it's way faster and more lightweight Now you've got me wondering why editor speed is actually a thing.

Try using something like xcode or a jetbrains IDE with a large codebase (for the record I like jetbrains software, but it can be slow comparatively).

edit: not sure I correctly understood the parent

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by cdelsolar »

dexterdog wrote: post #404
rublev wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing is faster for me when opening gargantuan text files. It's never broken for me and never lagged either. I think that's pretty impressive, not to mention the customizability options.

Define gargantuan. I just opened a 900MB CSV and it choked part-way through and eventually opened after about a minute. Windows 10, 8GB RAM and running on an SSD. Not to mention if you hit ctrl-f and search for something in the file. Another lock-up for a few minutes while it tries to figure out highlighting. This is something I've reported to them. I have never considered Sublime to be a good handler of large files.

> Windows

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by JohnBooty »

longsangstan wrote: post #385

I love Sublime. Tried Atom, but too slow on my 2012 Macbook Air. One question: How is sublime sustainable economically? I mean alternatives like Atom is free & open source, supported by a big company. With a infinite free trial model, how can sublime survive?

The "infinite free trial" model surely helps them indirectly. It expands the user base, which expands the plugin ecosystem, which sells licenses... because when you choose a text editor, you're choosing it for the ecosystem as much as for the editor itself.

There are AFAIK only two full-time employees (Jon Skinner and Will Bond) so they don't need to sell a ton of licenses.

If they sell 6,000 licenses a year that nets them nearly $500K/year in revenue.

Please note that the "6,000" there was totally invented by me. I just estimated how many licenses they need to sell to reach half a mil. I don't know if they sell 1,000 a year or 100,000 a year... I'd be really curious to know how many they sell.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by LesZedCB »

macrael wrote: post #401

May this be a thread where people post their favorite ST tweaks. Things that really make a difference day to day. I for one swapped the mapping of paste and paste and indent because I want the latter's behavior to be default. I also use a proportional font and love it. Something I can't get vim to do. I like gitgutter though it doesn't refresh properly always. What are your favorite plugins?

Material Theme. Best UI Theme in my opinion.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Material%20Theme

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by LesZedCB »

macrael wrote: post #401

May this be a thread where people post their favorite ST tweaks. Things that really make a difference day to day. I for one swapped the mapping of paste and paste and indent because I want the latter's behavior to be default. I also use a proportional font and love it. Something I can't get vim to do. I like gitgutter though it doesn't refresh properly always. What are your favorite plugins?

MarkdownEditing changes the syntax theme and adds really nice features that make reading and writing markdown a breeze.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/MarkdownEditing

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

TheKarateKid wrote: post #241
mstade wrote: post #70

I honestly can't believe I'm saying this, but: can you please enable me to buy a new license for 4.0 even though it may not even be on the road map yet? Or switch to / enable a subscriber model which is paid yearly and gives access to all upgrades? I rely so much on sublime for my day to day work and I fear the $80 or whatever I paid for it whenever ago is too cheap for the amount of value I'm getting out of it, and…

Can someone please explain to me why $80 for Sublime Text is a good price for a text editor? I'm not flaming, I genuinely want to know. I've tried Gedit, Atom, VS Code, Notepad++ and I fail to see what Sublime offers over those to justify the price.

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