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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 james2doyle »

turblety wrote: post #203
ben-schaaf wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want IDE-like behavior you'll need to install the TypeScript LSP: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LSP-typescript . We do have our own limited language-agnostic indexing and auto-complete if you open your projects folder; it relies on existing code to provide suggestions.

I installed that. Spent 15 minutes trying to get it to work. No joy :(

Oh, that's frustrating. I think it'd be great to have some more concrete guides for modern Sublime. Maybe I'll write one about getting TypeScript and everything working starting from scratch

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by LNSY »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #436
ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.

Please make an Evernote competitor out of Sublime…

Oooh, or an Obsidian competitor that doesn't take 10 minutes to boot.

Some notetaking app would be amazing

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

thecrumb wrote: post #290

I'd probably move back if the sidebar could move to the right LOL. I still see people ask on the forum post and I'm always amazed this simple feature hasn't been added yet.

I haven't heard that complaint before. But it's a good one! I personally don't use a sidebar, but I can see that being annoying if you do

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

christiangenco wrote: post #371

I freakin' love Sublime Text but the AI chat features of Cursor make all of the benefits in this post irrelevant. It's fast? Not as fast as an LLM. LSP code completion? Not as good as LLM completions aware of your entire codebase at once. Snippets? These don't matter if an LLM can just make them up on the fly. We've entered a new paradigm of what it means to be a good code editor. I'd love if Sublime added the LLM ch…

AI LSPs are coming. There are about half a dozen of them right now that you can find on GitHub, but I haven't been able to get any of them working really nicely and Sublime. But I have faith that eventually they'll mature up and a good one will surface as the go-to solution.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

timmfin wrote: post #222

I'm another "use Sublime text for all kinds of scratch and random needs, but vscode daily driver". But this was a good reminder for me of the value I still get out of Sublime and that I should upgrade my license. One small pet peeve, I do wish more of the functionality in the menu bar (mac?) was available in the command menu (cmd+shift+p). I still fairly frequently try cmd+shift+p "Spel..." to try and turn on Spell c…

That's a good one. I also noticed that I couldn't create new snippets or plugins from the command prompt. So, there are definitely some things missing from there.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

eviks wrote: post #68

> If you thought Sublime was dead, well you couldn't be more wrong! The latest build of Sublime as of this post is "4192" and was released 20th January 2025. Since a huge chunk of value here is in the plugins (hello, there isn't even a built-in plugin manager, it's 3rd party and still haven't fully transitioned to 3.8 - and this isn’t a nitpick, the fact that it’s not part of the core, and the author went MIA is part…

It sounds like you've had some unfortunate issues with Sublime in the past. Maybe it's just the different types of projects that we're both working on or what plugins we have installed. I haven't encountered any day-destroying bugs since at least version 3 came out. I think the most recent bug I came across was that a language-specific syntax broke, but that was because I updated Sublime and the syntax wasn't updated for it. I don't really know who's to blame in that scenario, though.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

brine wrote: post #261

I was 100% with you... until 3 days ago I tried [Zed]( https://zed.dev ) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There is a lot to like about Zed. But I still can't get past how it doesn't feel as snappy as Sublime. As I mentioned in the post, their snippet solution is not ideal for my needs. Something I didn't mention, though, was that I find the LSP configuration to be really frustrating in Zed. Their configuration/settings file is kind of a mess. They've clearly gone through a couple different versions of how to configure things because every couple of releases. They have changed the way that LSP formatting is configured at least twice.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by james2doyle »

braggerxyz wrote: post #205

Maybe Sublime Text is good, but I refuse to pay for something as profane as a text editor. A decent editor (syntax highlighting, LSP, regex search, keybindings for the 21st century etc) needs to be part of every operarting system. For me nowadays, Lapce is quickly growing on me.

I have actually tried Lapce because I like Lua and I thought it would be a nice alternative to building plugins in Lua rather than Python. But I can't get over how clunky the UI is in Lapce. I also find it will randomly crash on me and I can't really tell why. There's also no easy way to add additional LSPs. You have to look at these extensions, and there is a very limited number of them. I wish they would just allow you to configure the LSP through a JSON object like Sublime does.
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