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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 munificent »

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on.

It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters".

At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that's been Visual C++, Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and most recently VS Code.

That doesn't mean to me that I want Sublime to turn into an IDE. I like that it's lighterweight than that. It's the perfect sweet spot for me of rich enough to handle piles of notes and documents and small scale code editing, but not so huge and cumbersome that it gets in my way.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by scop »

munificent wrote: post #420
scop wrote: post #246

So glad to see this. I have been down a long road of text editors: - Sublime - Vim - Emacs - Atom - VSCode - Jetbrains IDE - Neovim - Zed - Cursor And these aren’t just little flings. I’ve spent months if not years in most of these editors. However, at the end of the day I always come back to one: Sublime. It is a beautiful piece of software. It feels like writing with one’s “good pen and good paper”, that high quali…

> That actually leads me to ask as this is outside of my expertise: why does Sublime feel more tactile/real than other editors? Performance is a big part of that. Even a few millisecond delay changes the user experience from "I am physically interacting with an object" to "I am requesting this service do a thing on my behalf". Sublime is consistently fast enough to feel like the former. Most other IDEs feel like the…

Thanks for the info! I was wondering if it was something more than speed, but what you said makes a lot sense. Love the "I am interacting" vs "I am requesting" way of putting it as it highlights just how dramatically different of an experience it is.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by dazzaji »

I’ve been using Sublime Text many times a day since around 2010 for my daily and weekly logs. My Mac is set to use it as the default for .py, .md, and .txt files, so I find myself in Sublime all the time—and I absolutely love it! Sure, I develop in VS Code, but I live in sublime. It’s fast, clean, and dependable. Thanks to the team for building such a fantastic editor!

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by [deleted] »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #150

I really want to like Sublime (it's so fast, I like the minimal UI), but VS Code has so much inertia, and does so much out of the box or with minimal extra effort that it's hard to not use it instead. At the end of the day, I have things to get done, I'm not here to tinker with tools. Same reason I never got into vim/emacs etc as a daily driver.

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #150

I really want to like Sublime (it's so fast, I like the minimal UI), but VS Code has so much inertia, and does so much out of the box or with minimal extra effort that it's hard to not use it instead. At the end of the day, I have things to get done, I'm not here to tinker with tools. Same reason I never got into vim/emacs etc as a daily driver.

I hear you. I think that is why I prefer Helix to Neovim when it comes to editors in terminals. There is a lot that is just done and there are sane defaults. I think the default Sublime experience is pretty slim and trim. Maybe too much for some but just right for me

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

lbrito wrote: post #399

Sublime user since 2014. I tried vim and nvim. Its just more overall effort and I'm never as productive as with Sublime. I tried zed and it doesn't work with Linux. I briefly opened vscode but haven't tried it out earnestly yet. I think its mostly muscle memory. I'm just too used to the shortcuts, workflow etc. You can teach new tricks to an old dog; I can learn and get used to another editor, but ultimately I always…

I hear you. Zed does supply a Sublime key mapping. But it isn't the same. There is something off about it. With all the investment in Zed and its GPU-based rendering, it still doesn't feel as snappy as Sublime to me!

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

munificent wrote: post #421

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on. It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that'…

I've been a big fan of VS Code but the latest updates have shown Microsoft simply can't shake their addiction to bloating software with unnecessary features, so likely back to Sublime Text I go.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by paulcarroty »

the_duke wrote: post #138
jll29 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For starters, I love the licensing, as it is very fair: I bought a personal license and I can take it to as many machines as I have (I do use many different computers). And you can buy it one time, no silly monthly subscription fees. As a result, Sublime ist the only commercial (locally installed) software I still use, and it is always open. There are situations, where I use macros, regex substitutions, or browsing t…

> but I immediately lost an important file Zed has an "autosave" setting, it's just off by default.

It works well, but Zed consuming too much CPU on Linux: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14833

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by electrondood »

munificent wrote: post #421

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on. It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that'…

100% ditto for me. It's the interface for my external brain. The file search and global search are exactly what I need, and the multi-cursor editing, etc. are fantastic.

I always have my IDE up on one monitor and Sublime on the other.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by eigenvalue »

moffkalast wrote: post #404
eigenvalue wrote: post #90

I use both Sublime and Vscode every day for different things. Sublime is just so fast and responsive all the time, while vscode can get annoying slow and laggy, often because of all the many plugins I have running. If I just need simple text file editing with syntax highlighting, say while editing a markdown file, Sublime is just snappier. For actual coding VScode is much better because of all the IDE features.

I like VSCode's feature where it doesn't constantly bitch and moan about buying a license. Like cmon, there's billions of text editors to pick from, it would be like paying for breathing air or worse, for winrar.

Maybe I'm a sucker, but I bought a license for Sublime in like 2009 and re-upped for a later version. I also actually bought WinRAR from Eugene. It's good to support dedicated devs who make high quality tools that you use all the time.
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