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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by nobleach »

fouc wrote: post #370
kwanbix wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried Sublime text and I really like it. But I have been a user of UltraEdit for many many years (maybe 20?) and I still find it much more natural to use. I found it while looking for an editor to replace Semware's Qedit (DOS). I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here. I do find Sublime's price much better than UltraEdit.

I think a lot of developers on macosx were using Textmate before they switched to Sublime Text

Yup, this was my exact experience. In Windows land, I used whatever IDE was built for whatever language I was using (Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Borland Delphi) When I started doing web, it was all Notepad++ and BBEdit, Dreamweaver. Then I found Textmate. It was so perfect. Having no Windows version was so upsetting. When Sublime showed up, I was so happy. I had always used Vim in my IT career though, so once I started learning how to make that work for more than editing config files, that became my daily driver.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by dmitshur »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

Hello HN, I'm one of the developers at Sublime HQ. We're all very excited about this release. If you have any questions you'd like to ask I'll do my best to answer them.

Question about license upgrades. The page says:

> Note you can upgrade to the bundle from either a Sublime Text or Sublime Merge license.

Right now I have a ST3 license and would like to upgrade it to both ST4 and Sublime Merge.

If one upgrades to a bundle now, will it be possible in the future to upgrade the bundle license to a single product one? Or is the only option to buy a new single product license instead?

(I’m ok with it either way, I just want to find out so I can plan better.)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by rahoulb »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #224
arvindamirtaa wrote: post #206

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Do you have any plans to add first class support for SSH based or docker based remote development workflows? The current Rsubl implementation kinda works. But is a bit hacky for reliable everyday work.

We've certainly talked about it, but there aren't any concrete plans yet.

I would second this - it works really well in VSCode and it's something I would happily pay for.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jeromegv »

adamzochowski wrote: post #451
bachmeier wrote: post #420

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> Opening a 1 line 1GB file on a modern machine brings subl to a complete halt and regex editing is sheer impossible. Is this a common operation for a text editor?

Yeah, plenty of people edit files like xml or json in text editors.

Sublime can do big files without any issue, the specific use case here is if it all sits on a single line. Most XML/Json files are not single line, but yes it happens.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by yingbo »

catillac wrote: post #433
nly wrote: post #300

It's software like Sublime that sustains my faith in the software industry and why I'm still a developer. It's beautiful, efficient software that single-handedly proves that desktop software in 2021 doesn't have to be a shit, low quality side show to SaaS "apps" and mobile. Heaven knows what their code looks like. Perhaps it's best it never goes open source so we can sustain the Opera-esque magic of a <10MB binary th…

I don’t use sublime in my day to day, but always keep it on hand because it’s the only IDE that quickly opens for viewing very large csv or similar files without a hitch. PyCharm, VSCode, Aton all barf under these conditions.

Just for the speed of large file, on macOS, I find the BBEdit is great too. The basic functions of BBEdit can be used for free even.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jeromegv »

dawnerd wrote: post #69
SavantIdiot wrote: post #40

I feel bad using VSCode after years of supporting Sublime (by purchasing a license). However the one case where I do use sublime repeatedly? When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. It boots faster than VSCode, and frankly, it finally broke me of my constant habit of VIMming now that I have it on my mac, win and linux boxes. I am eager to try V4, but I'm so deep in VSCode now, I don't know if I can find my way out! I c…

I don't want to take any thunder away from Sublime but VSCode basically opens instantly on M1.

On M1, Sublime is still faster than VSCode to open. The bouncing icon is not even done bouncing back down that the whole project is open in Sublime. Yes still very fast in Vs Studio, but there's always something nice about Sublime being able to get to a file so quickly.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by _0w8t »

nickjj wrote: post #403
Fnoord wrote: post #390

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> The new auto-complete is really impressive. How does it compare to YouCompleteMe or TabNine?

I haven't tried TabNine but according to its home page it doesn't support Elixir. It also requires a monthly subscription (the daily limit would be consumed in about 5-10 minutes of coding). I don't mind paying for things but at this time I'm not interested in subscribing to more services. YCM feels more like a LSP client than buffer / project level auto-complete. AFAIK it requires you to have a language's runtime sp…

VSCode supports remote editing and running language server in a container.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jhawk28 »

amatecha wrote: post #115
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #2

> Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase. After that, you will still have full access to every version of Sublime Text released within the 3 year window. I really love this model.

Why's that? It depends how frequently a major release happens. If it stays at "4.x" for 5 years, I'd way rather have the "tied to a single major version" license :)

If it stays 4.x for 5 years, it is effectively tied to a single major version. You get all the updates for that major version.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by kwanbix »

JaggerJo wrote: post #398
kwanbix wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried Sublime text and I really like it. But I have been a user of UltraEdit for many many years (maybe 20?) and I still find it much more natural to use. I found it while looking for an editor to replace Semware's Qedit (DOS). I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here. I do find Sublime's price much better than UltraEdit.

> I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here. Just from looking at the screenshots on their site I wouldn't install it (because of it's ugly UI).

The UI is pretty configurable. You can use Menus, Menus with toolbars, or Menus with Ribbon. I use it only with menus.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bevacqua »

Awesome. Sublime is my favorite editor by far. Performance, multiple cursors, and syntax highlighting is all I need

Couple questions:

1. I already have JSX and TypeScript plugins installed. Should I remove those?

2. When will there be a `~/Library/Sublime Text 4/` directory now?

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