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Post by da39a3ee » Fri, May 21, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

woodruffw wrote: post #42

bigyikes wrote: post #16

I was a Sublime user, then Atom, and now I’m a VS Code user. In 2021, what reasons are there to use Sublime over VS Code? Performance is the only one that comes to mind, but there are surely others... right?

I've tried to make the switch from Sublime to VS Code a few times, and a few things consistently hang me up: * Performance, like you mentioned. I've very used to opening hundreds of megabytes of line-delimited data in my editor; anything that can't keep up with that immediately ruins my "tempo." * I don't really understand how to customize VS Code's UI. It has a lot of little toolbars and widget panels that I don't w…

Post by TeeMassive » Fri, May 21, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

dsego wrote: post #304

TeeMassive wrote: post #125

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Vim has Vimtutor; could Sublime have its Sumblimetutor too? I've been using Sublime for years now and yet I barely use most of its "well known features" and I feel ashamed of myself. I know there are tutorials out there, but I am a chronic procrastinator and I just can't bring myself to watch them while at home.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Sublime%20Tutor

Post by TeeMassive » Fri, May 21, 2021, 3:00 PM UTC

yesenadam wrote: post #162

TeeMassive wrote: post #125

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Vim has Vimtutor; could Sublime have its Sumblimetutor too? I've been using Sublime for years now and yet I barely use most of its "well known features" and I feel ashamed of myself. I know there are tutorials out there, but I am a chronic procrastinator and I just can't bring myself to watch them while at home.

You could use philosopher John Perry's method. Put every activity on a To Do list, ordered by importance. Procrastination is doing lower-down items instead of higher-up items. Perry has the top of his list filled with so many awesome items that even things lower down are still well worth doing. So, it sounds like you could add more awesome things to do to the top of your list, until your procrastination becomes thing…

Post by The_rationalist » Fri, May 21, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

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.

Post by silverwind » Fri, May 21, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #420

Greaka wrote: post #293

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Hey there, subl is absolutely the best when you quickly need to open and edit a huge file. You cannot, however, do that when the file only has 1 line. Do you think it might be possible to get that fixed at some point? Opening a 1 line 1GB file on a modern machine brings subl to a complete halt and regex editing is sheer impossible.

> 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?