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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by s73ver_ »

evv wrote: post #163

I see the author, jskinner, is hanging out on this thread! Have you ever considered open-sourcing SLT? This is your only route to immortalize this amazing piece of software. I'm sure you'd receive immense community contributions and widespread support. If you switch to a donation model + enterprise support plans, I think you're likely to earn greatly more than you currently do. I love SLT and have used it throughout…

"If you switch to a donation model + enterprise support plans, I think you're likely to earn greatly more than you currently do."

I'm curious as to what your evidence to back this statement up is. As is, most donation-ware ends up getting next to nothing in donations.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by cdelsolar »

alexashka wrote: post #215
eptakilo wrote: post #10

I primarily use VSCode as my editor but I used Sublime back in the days. I haven't touched it in a while. How do these two editors compare lately?

Sublime was the text editor for web dev because there wasn't a nice, free IDE. VSCode is that IDE - long live Sublime. It'll take a while to switch over but the writing is on the wall as far as I'm concerned - Sublime will be fondly remembered for it's novel features.

Ok sure. I just immediately paid the (underpriced) $30 for the license upgrade.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by saagarjha »

Beltiras wrote: post #173
yoodenvranx wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the idea to sell 'silver/gold/diamond supporter' licences for 100/200/300$ to people who _really_ love your software? I am not even talking about adding some special features, just enable people to pay more than the normal price and perhaps just add a nice 'Thanks for your extra support' badge to the 'Info' menu.

Buy licenses and donate to your local high school.

My local high school will refuse them. The computer science classes use Geany because it “builds character” and anything that looks remotely like an IDE apparently “does too much work for students”.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by vim_wannabe »

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…

The first thing I did after Ulysses went the way of subscription was get a refund from App Store. :)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by knodi123 »

agentgt wrote: post #263

One of the reasons I still use both Emacs and Vim (yes I strangely use both) is because I can go execute them on a terminal (terminal, tmux, screen, etc). There are just so many times I need to SSH into a machine. I know Emacs has some remote file editing capabilities but for some reason I never liked it (I can't recall why now... I think it was the need to sudo). So I'm wondering what sublime text fans do for remote…

I was involuntarily forced to get the hang of vim back in my youth, and once I got over the learning curve, it's been an indispensable part of my toolkit. I waffle back and forth between sublime3, and tmux+vim, depending on how much I'm working locally vs. remotely

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mundanevoice »

fastball wrote: post #125
mundanevoice wrote: post #121

Thanks for building a great editor that just works and is fast enough. It has the lowest barrier to entry and is mostly free due to unlimited trial. 5 years ago, when I started writing code professionally, Sublime made things so easy because I didn't have to learn an IDE to write code. Many kudos and one day I will definitely buy a LICENSE.

You don't make enough after 5 years as a coder to justify an $80 expense?

I make enough to buy any damn License I want. I never said it was not justified. I don't use Sublime these days. I had fond memories of starting with Sublime and so I said and for the nostalgia sake, I will fucking buy the license as well. So stop assuming things and judging people, alright?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by baldfat »

inamberclad wrote: post #216
baldfat wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left VIM after 20 year to VS Code. I find that the ecosystem at VS Code to be the best I have ever seen. Great job by Microsoft and I use it on my Linux box all day.

I like it except that it installed it's own apt sources for updates without telling me, and that rubbed me the wrong way.

I believe that would be distro dependent. On my Linux base I just use the RPM until I added a repo.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by knodi123 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #91

What with being in beta for so long, I expected the actual 3.0 to be much like the (last beta) that I had been using. But there are significant changes to the UI, that I'll have to get used to or figure out how to customize (or wait for plugins to customize). What's with the "/ " 'icon' next to many files? I'm not sure what it's supposed to indicate. As you can see in the screenshot in the announcement, some files ha…

> What's with the "/" 'icon' next to many files?

Hah. Just noticed that myself. It's the icon for "shell script", I think, which includes a wide variety of file types. If you cmd-shift-p and pick "install package", and then install "A File Icon", then that peculiarity is instantly and permanently replaced with meaningful icons (for all the types that I happen to use in my dayjob, at least).

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by udp »

cholantesh wrote: post #430
pinum wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you should forget the whole "terminal based" thing. TUI text editors don't make much sense anymore. Native GUIs are much less clunky and much more discoverable.

I wish people would learn to appreciate that UX is subjective. I find most GUI-based editors to be RSI inducing. The level of effort required to change that is not worth it for me. Others may disagree. And that's fine.

Just because it's a GUI doesn't mean you have to use the mouse. I find gvim much faster than vim in the terminal because it doesn't have to print a screen full of glyphs for each update.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by thecrumb »

alexggordon wrote: post #195

While I know it might be a little hidden, I'd just like to say I'm really glad Will Bond of Package Control[0] was able to join[1] the Sublime Text team. Having first class support for Package Control in ST is definitely one of the features I value the most out of Sublime Text and IMHO one of the things that still keeps it very competitive with Atom other text editors. I use packages from ST almost every day and plus…

Good - he's working on Sublime. Bad - he's neglecting his plugins a bit. Hopefully with 3.0 out the door officially he can balance things out a bit.
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