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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by davidkhess »

danmur wrote: post #358
ben-schaaf wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I love Sublime, I've paid for every version and I did the same for my devs for many years (when I had a company cc!). I would just like to say remote editing is the only thing I use vscode for. If ST had remote editing I and probably a lot of other people would use it more. Once again, love sublime, just a suggestion :)

Not sure if it matches your use case or not, but I use sshfs with Sublime Text and it's just as good as local editing.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by trzeci »

Greaka wrote: post #293
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.

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.

Hi! I'm struggling with the same problems (Debugging huge ASM.js files). The best modern, non-vim editor to handle such files I've found is Cuda Text: http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/

Absolutely top tier lightweight code editor for special tasks.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by nickjj »

unknown_error wrote: post #473
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.

IntelliJ's autocomplete is much better, but it's doing some heavy lifting to get such good results.

I haven't gone crazy testing ST4 btw, I played with it for like 20 minutes. It felt like it was maybe 65% between ST3's auto-complete and what you'd get with a LSP back-end using VSCode. Meaning it's closer to VSCode than it is than ST3, but not as good as a LSP, but there's also no effort to get it set up so it's a reasonable trade off if you're someone like me who just wants pretty good auto complete without configuring a million tools to run in the background.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by jacekm »

exhilaration wrote: post #500
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 Notepad++ you would just alt+drag, no need to enable a special mode. It looks pretty much exactly like what's in that video.

Or alt+shift+arrows if you don't want to use mouse.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by klmadfejno »

SNosTrAnDbLe wrote: post #150
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.

Thanks for introducing the multi select feature in text editing. There may have been other editors before which had but Sublime was where I first encountered this and where it felt natural. It has saved me countless keystrokes! I use VS Code now but it has started getting slower and it may be time to go back to sublime!

I use sublime 3 pretty frequently, and am aware of this feature, but haven't experienced a moment where this was useful, or at least, not more useful than just running find-replace (which is fantastic on sublime with its pattern matching and speed and what not btw). How do you use this effectively?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

traspler wrote: post #532
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.

Could it be that you‘ve already been using the new GPU rendering in SublimeMerge but not ST3? That would explain the visual corruption issues I sometimes have with Merge but not ST3. In Merge some actions, sometimes (mostly in the settings) corrupt the application window (sometimes also after minimizing and sleep) on my MacBook. To me it looked like a rendering/GPU issue. It looks like blocks of pixels having differe…

Yes we've been shipping the hardware accelerated rendering with Sublime Merge for some time now. A bug report would be welcome (Under Help > Report a Bug)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

philshem wrote: post #516
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 Ben When will ST4 show up on Homebrew? https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/sublime-text Thanks for taking the time to answer questions

We only ship downloads from sublimetext.com. Any other avenues like homebrew, flatpak, etc. are supplied by third parties with no relation to us. Sublime Text on macOS has its down update mechanism that you may prefer over homebrew.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by FlashBlaze »

tusharsadhwani wrote: post #168
woodruffw wrote: post #42

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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…

FWIW, VS Code has a "zen mode" view which hides everything other than the editor window, which kinda makes it comfortable for people coming from vim, sublime and the like. Try it out sometime.

Thanks. Wasn't aware of this. I'm probably never going back to the default view.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mrspuratic »

twh270 wrote: post #409
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.

QEdit on DOS... now that brings back some memories! I went in for their flagship TSE (The Semware Editor) when it came out and was duly impressed. I have used Notepad++ as my regular non-IDE editor for probably 15 years; there are a handful of (semi-)unique features that I really appreciate. I'm guessing UltraEdit keeps its user base for similar reasons.

A long time ago... used it a lot in 80x50 line text mode, lightening fast, good macro and configuration options (ISTR a separate tool to "reconfigure" the main binary). Had many of the same default bindings as the Borland IDEs, handy since the TurboC IDE used to run out of steam around 1000 loc or so, that's when I learned Makefiles.

Never took to TSE, sequence of bad experiences with stability.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

demarq wrote: post #413
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.

for typescript it would be nice to hover any word and see it's type. is that a planned feature? I noticed that you can only see the type of a type

That kind of feature requires integrating a TypeScript compiler, akin to an IDE. Sublime Text is first and foremost a text editor and such doesn't have that kind of information. You may want to look at plugins like LSP for that.
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