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Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by stormbrew »

foz wrote: post #43
looki wrote: post #13

"The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least" I can't be the only one who completely, utterly disagrees with this? I absolutely love the default theme and I think the icon looks great (much better than the alternative provided). That being said, I don't want to start a whole pointless discussion about taste here, it just kind of bothered me to read something like that in a blog post that talks abou…

I think the main problem with the ST2 icon is that it looks like a disk drive. I often ignore it because in my brain, I assume it's a disk and not an editor.

Agreed. I think the icon has changed in Sublime Text 3, though.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by stormbrew »

maccman wrote: post #3
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

You shouldn't set "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true unless you work alone, otherwise you're going to have random whitespace changes polluting your diffs.

Our coding guidelines at Stripe specify that whitespace is to be stripped. It works if everyone does it. On the occasion where whitespace does pollute the diff, GitHub has a convenient feature where you can append '?w=1' to any diff URL and whitespace changes will be omitted.

The problem with universal whitespace removal isn't the output of the diff, imo, but the spurious conflicts in merges. A change should be minimal to allow easier merging.

Ideally whitespace would be trimmed from lines that have otherwise changed, thus ensuring a gradual (though probably never completing) repair of the code.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by hueyp »

snotrockets wrote: post #28

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs. Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible. You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years. Fashionable editors come and go, but E…

What do you use to replace command-T in ST2 in Emacs? I recently picked up Emacs because I'm doing a clojure project (I can't get ST2 to work with nrepl) but I am having a hard time without the command-T fuzzy search.

I have ido and find-file-in-project installed but neither of them seem to include directories in the fuzzy search. So if I search 'custcore' it won't match 'customer/core.clj'. If I instead search 'core' it is too broad of a term. I really need very little out of an editor, but this is one of those things.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by [deleted] »

snotrockets wrote: post #28

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs. Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible. You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years. Fashionable editors come and go, but E…

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Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

#56

Post by lelandbatey »

snotrockets wrote: post #28

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs. Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible. You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years. Fashionable editors come and go, but E…

What I'm about to say comes down more to philosophical differences than differences of opinion about Sublime Text 2.

I do not have extensive experience with Emacs. However, I've often heard it described as an infinitely extensible system, or as you put it "you can practically live in Emacs."

I find that a bit odd, because it's like building an OS inside an OS. I already have an infinitely extensible system, namely my actual OS (*nix). I want a tool that nicely fits within that system, not supplants it. And then I want that tool to be the best possible tool at what it is (in this case, a code editor). If I need other operations/actions, then I will use other tools.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by osener »

hueyp wrote: post #53
snotrockets wrote: post #28

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs. Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible. You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years. Fashionable editors come and go, but E…

What do you use to replace command-T in ST2 in Emacs? I recently picked up Emacs because I'm doing a clojure project (I can't get ST2 to work with nrepl) but I am having a hard time without the command-T fuzzy search. I have ido and find-file-in-project installed but neither of them seem to include directories in the fuzzy search. So if I search 'custcore' it won't match 'customer/core.clj'. If I instead search 'core…

Try helm: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm and https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by gfunk911 »

andrethegiant wrote: post #33

One setting I find invaluable is to use Paste and Indent for ⌘V instead of the standard Paste. This adjusts your indentation to automatically match the context it's pasted in. To do this, put the following in your Key Bindings - User file: [ { "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" }, { "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste" } ]

You just (minimally) changed my world. Thank you sir.

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by taproot »

Camillo wrote: post #32
pdog wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I didn't understand this either. "Sublime's initial look leaves a lot to be desired." Really? I think it looks great. Here's another post that calls Sublime's default theme "pretty ugly" and "god-awful": http://floatleft.com/notebook/making-sublime-text-2-beautifu...

I think ST2's chrome is functionally bad, rather than aesthetically, and I'm not sure it can be fixed with themes. The way the sidebar and the tab bar interact to show which document is active can be extremely confusing.

I have the same problem its not as clean cut on a mac as say textmate. On linux windows its a fair bit suited to the environment.

The initial code theme is pretty ugly thank god for themes like tomorrow, soda and similar.

I find the blog post with a title "setting up sublime" that doesnt cover the package manager for plugins pretty laughable. Its kind of the best part..

Re: Setting up Sublime Text 2

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Post by pilgrim689 »

lelandbatey wrote: post #56
snotrockets wrote: post #28

I tried to like Sublime, I really did. Bought a license and used it for four months, before going back to Emacs. Sublime is nice, and easy to extend, but it only extends so far, while Emacs is infinitely extensible. You can practically live in Emacs[1]; some things I wanted to do in Emacs were hard to pull off, but I'm yet to find something it can't do. And it does so for years. Fashionable editors come and go, but E…

What I'm about to say comes down more to philosophical differences than differences of opinion about Sublime Text 2. I do not have extensive experience with Emacs. However, I've often heard it described as an infinitely extensible system, or as you put it "you can practically live in Emacs." I find that a bit odd, because it's like building an OS inside an OS. I already have an infinitely extensible system, namely my…

The problem with this argument is that the OS doesn't provide you with the mesh that integrates all these tools together under a consistent interface. That's what Emacs and Emacs Lisp provide. I can jump from code to documentation to org-mode (todos) to music player to git... and all the while I'm switching from tool to tool, the shortcuts are the same, the graphical interface is the same, and I never need to change windows. An Operating System doesn't give you that seamlessness... the seams are all too visible.
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