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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by bonestamp2 »

munificent wrote: post #421

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on. It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that'…

I use sublime in exactly the same way. I've written hundreds of blog post on it. I use it for light data manipulation and other file editing. For writing, I like how I can move text up/down like code when I want to move around items in my outline. I showed a writer friend of mine this and it blew his mind (he doesn't know anything about text editors).

For data manipulation, I like multi-line cursors. Sure, I have expensive IDEs that can do this too, but sublime is great for non-technical people and it's very affordable and lightweight as you mentioned.

My other friend spends a lot of time in spreadsheets, and he was trying to import a bunch of tabular data one time and it didn't quite work due to the source formatting. I showed him how to pull it into sublime, quickly add some commas and remove some junk data on every line to get it in shape for importing into Excel. He loved it!

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ixmerof »

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.

The most important thing for me as I am using ST since ca. 2009. I am retro programming fan and ST is the only editor that still allows me to conveniently work on windowses across 98 to 7. I am not using the most recent version, heck I haven't upgraded it for few years now, but I hope the compatibility still remains.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by alt227 »

nine_k wrote: post #451
munificent wrote: post #421

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on. It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that'…

Funnily, my approach is somehow opposite. I run Emacs with all bells and whistles to write whatever language. With LSPs, you are now not married to a language-specific IDE. As a developer, I just start Emacs in server mode and never shut it down. Then I use emacsclient to edit all kinds of files. It loads instantly, handles any reasonable files, can access remote files when needed, and has all the tools I want handy.…

Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/378/

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by laserbeam »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #410
laserbeam wrote: post #311

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Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it. The only debugger I'm happy with right now (in terms of performance/features) is RemedyBG, but it's windows only and compiled languages only. In general, I mostly live with painfully slow debugging in VSCode. I would really love to see RemedyBG's dedicated debugging UI/UX approach refined by some group…

> Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it. Is it completely removed from Sublime Text? I love merge, but the simplest controls like stage/unstage/commit/indicate file status seem kind of essential. Having said that, Merge is far and away the best git UI I've used. It has saved my bacon a few times. I'm not terrible with git in the terminal (I…

> Is it completely removed from Sublime Text?

Of course not. I was just describing 2 different levels of coolness.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by gamedever »

dpjohnst wrote: post #530
gamedever wrote: post #504

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apparently I can't edit that previous comment so to add sublime merge * I want to see blame and modified dates for folders and files. This lets me look at folders and find the one that has a recent change and then glance at the files and see which ones changed recently. Maybe that feature is in there but "View Tree" is not it. That shows a plain tree. No modified dates, no people VSCode VSCode loads that project remo…

G'day, I head up the Sublime Merge team. Thank you for taking the time to share all this feedback - I genuinely appreciate it and will be looking into this further. A couple of things to note: > It puts headings on diff sections. I want to copy text that from Sublime Merge and search for the identifier in my editor. Sorry, S.O.L. I've just added support for this internally, thank you for the feedback! > I want to sea…

thanks! to be clear tho. searching the commit comment is one thing. I want to search the file contents across history. which files used to contain the word "foo"

also, the tree based folder and file blame. GitHub, the website, shows this info by default. It would be nice if sublime merge had a similar view. The code view on github, the default view for any project, shows a line for each file and folder, followed by the commit msg summary in the middle, and a commit date on the right

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by soraminazuki »

pinoy420 wrote: post #537
nine_k wrote: post #451

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Funnily, my approach is somehow opposite. I run Emacs with all bells and whistles to write whatever language. With LSPs, you are now not married to a language-specific IDE. As a developer, I just start Emacs in server mode and never shut it down. Then I use emacsclient to edit all kinds of files. It loads instantly, handles any reasonable files, can access remote files when needed, and has all the tools I want handy.…

That sounds like an academic exercise rather than anything practical

In what world does the topic of setting up an editor have any academic value?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by [deleted] »

readingnews wrote: post #338

Used to use sublime, and wanted to purchase a license, but it is only good for the version you are on. Since I use gentoo and it upgrades frequently, my license would require me to hold it back, and eventually it will break. How do others deal with this? Just keep purchasing a license?

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by dishsoap »

nijuashi wrote: post #265

The only gripe I have is I have like 100 project windows open and I need to look for it (ctrl+P only works within the project window). Otherwise, it’s pretty much a perfect editor. Maybe I’m missing a plugin.

Yeah this, it's annoying to find a specific open file if you have tons of windows. Absolutely love sublime text apart from that.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #484
Macha wrote: post #471

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Datagrip, of course, is just the integrated database editor of intellij packaged without the rest of intellij, so it's not a rule that integrated tools are always bad

Is it integrated into their IDEs? That's incredible. Fair point, then. Maybe I should consider using their IDEs.

Yes and since few weeks ago it now comes for free with WebStorm.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by andrepd »

nottorp wrote: post #252
andrepd wrote: post #177

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Fwiw you can disable all AI bloat and online features with a couple of config keys

But isn't that your "zed"'s selling point? What remains if you turn those off? Does it have gamification too, in addition to "AI" and "social"?

What an oddly aggressive tone x) It's not "my" Zed's selling point because I don't develop or even use zed daily atm. But it's also not the selling point period, it's one of them, the others being e.g. performance, responsiveness, and low memory footprint, as well as integration with tree sitter and LSP.

Not sure what you mean by gamification and social, we're talking about collaborative editing, not posting to twitter lol

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