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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by kwanbix »

BunsanSpace wrote: post #417
kwanbix wrote: post #344

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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.

my work makes us use UltraEdit (custom langauge) and frankly I hated it so much I wrote a custom language plugin for sublime my self so I could switch back. UltraEdit just feels like it's stuck 10 years in the past.

In what way? I have used Sublime2 and 3, which might feel faster, VS Editor (I think is the name), much heavier, and Atom I think is the other. Never felt "wow, this is the future".

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by kwanbix »

bradstewart wrote: post #459
rattray wrote: post #383

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That's incredible. From the website it looks like a Windows-oriented tool. If it weren't for your product I wouldn't have even guessed they had a Mac version. I bet they'd do much better with adoption if they customized their homepage screenshots to the platform viewing the page… For others curious about Column Mode, here's their link with a nice video: https://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials-power-tips/ultra...…

In VSCode you can also middle-click (the scroll wheel on a mouse) and drag to do column select.

But what I lick of UE is that you can do everything with your keyboard, no need to use the mouse.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by unknown_error »

nickjj wrote: post #378

The new auto-complete is really impressive. I've always been a big fan of using snippets and auto-completing based on open buffers in a project instead of using LSPs. I haven't used ST in a while but decided to install ST4 to try it out. I opened a Flask application that uses SQLAlchemy. I opened a Python file and typed User. and then it showed me a list of fields and methods on my User model without having the User…

How does it compare to the autocomplete in IntelliJ/Webstorm/Phpstorm? The amazing autocomplete is most of what keeps me on Jetbrains, but their software is soooo slow.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

dmitshur wrote: post #462
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…

Currently you can only upgrade from a bundle to a bundle, but the exact behavior hasn't been fully decided on yet. I'll look into clarifying that.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by kwanbix »

ableal wrote: post #441
kwanbix wrote: post #368

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Yeah, notepad++. I also tried it. The price was better (free), but it lacked column mode, "reformat paragraph" (it basically takes separate lines and makes it into a paragraph), and trim trailing spaces, at least when I tested it, which I used a lot.

Column mode and trim spaces have existed in notepad++ for years, but may be a bit hard to find. I just checked, and that may have improved: both are on the Edit menu, bottom half.

Yes, I couldn't find at the time how to use them. I am talking again probable 15 or 20 years ago, so it might have been version 0.1 of N++.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by thebrain »

choicenotchance wrote: post #349
kwanbix wrote: post #344

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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.

Never heard of UltraEdit in 10yrs of my career, or came across it when searching for editors and IDEs.

You've probably never needed to work with really large files or edit/examine a fie in HEX, it really shines for these use cases.

It's not really an IDE and I've never used it to write code.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

kwanbix wrote: post #344
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 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.

Another long-time UltraEdit user here.

I love it in general, but in particular there's one feature that I can't do without: column mode. I don't understand why other editors haven't copied it (at least to my knowledge. If you know any other that has it, I'd like to know). For those of us that often work with CSV-like formats, it's a real time saver.

It's also better behaved for huge files than any other editor I've tried.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by unknown_error »

zumu wrote: post #268
rococode wrote: post #49

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To me, VSCode competes with IDEs, Sublime competes with text editors. Startup speed accounts for a solid 95% of that distinction. If I need to make a quick edit to a file or write down a temporary (but reasonably persistent) note, the only tools I've tried that let me do that in less than 3 seconds are Sublime, Notepad, and Notepad++. Among those choices, Sublime is the clear winner in overall usefulness and function…

VSCode is much much faster than the popular IDEs (namely, IntelliJ) in my experience. I'd say it occupies a middle point between full IDE and text editor.

Is VSCode still fast after you add enough plugins to make it reach feature parity with IntelliJ?

I've tried VSCode a few times through the years, but it always seemed like I needed at least a dozen plugins to get all the features I have out-of-the-box with PhpStorm. I guess it's a philosophical difference between modular components and a big ol' monolith (though, beneath the hood, IntelliJ IS modular... most of their software is just a branded collection of plugins, though all the major ones are first-party instead of community-driven like in VSCode).

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

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

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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).

First thing I do when installing it is to turn off the ribbon and set it to the good old menu-based UI. Which of course, might be "ugly" for you as well.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

fdeage wrote: post #380
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.

Hi there, Thanks for this release! I use ST every day and I love it: the speed, the efficiency, everything. The one thing I miss, though, is manipulating files from the left panel (moving files especially). I know there is a plug-in doing that (Side Bar) but it lacks drag-and-drop support. Any plan to have it natively in the future?

It's been on our radar but hasn't been a high priority so far. You can currently use rename to move a file across directories using `../` or similar.
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