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I still like Sublime Text

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by hwj »

dartos wrote: post #340
HatchedLake721 wrote: post #303

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Why is it insane? Along with a terminal, I also use a database editor inside my code editor. That’s the point behind an IDE - integrated developer environment.

It’s insane bc I don’t like it :) Like I said, it’s all personal preference. I mainly code in neovim, I do a lot of work ssh-ing into other machines (sometimes with multiple hops.) I live in the terminal and sometimes cat very very large log files and would like an experience that is terminal centric. It very much surprised me to learn how many devs there are nowadays who aren’t terminal centric (outside of windows l…

I've been using ldapvi to manage the LDAP of an entire college faculty.

Which plugin do you use for DBs?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by microflash »

kapitanluffy wrote: post #533
microflash wrote: post #276

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Are there are plans to improve Search UI and make sidebar more capable. I really like the way VSCode’s search interface where results are listed on sidebar and clicking an item opens the file in the editor. Regardless of the above experience, Sublime Text is still my daily driver since 2012. Nothing has come close to it.

there is a "Find in Files" feature. It will show you a new tab with results where you can use key binds to navigate (next, previous, open line of result) You can see the feature under "Find > Find in Files" You can see the "navigation" under "Find > Find Results" For more help, head over to https://discord.sublimetext.io (and tag me, I'll reply when I can)

This is what I use. Unfortunately, when I’m doing a search and replace, the search results don’t update automatically once I’ve edited a file.

But thank you for replying. I’ll hop into Discord eventually.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by computerthings »

jaredsohn wrote: post #333
computerthings wrote: post #258

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That's still my favorite feature of all, it even remembers the undo history. Never lost anything to a crash.

I think you need to create a project file and then it stores things there. For a long time I would get paranoid about accepting Mac updates which would require a reboot because then I'd lose my undo history and then I discovered that this is all I would need to do.

While I meant closing the whole application at once (which restores all windows/projects and unsaved changes when you restart ST), you're right that projects keep track of unsaved state on a per-project basis, too. So you can open and close project windows individually, but also do the same for Sublime Text as a whole.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by mikepurvis »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #542
mikepurvis wrote: post #365

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I do this with Notepad++ and honestly I have mixed feelings about it. It's so convenient but I feel weird about constantly pasting semi-important notes and snippets into this unnamed, unsaved, unsynced doc that just sits there always open on my desktop. Basically I just feel guilty that I'm not using a "proper" note taking application when so many of them exist.

It's saved, just not to separate files. And the solution to getting it synced is to back up your computer, which you should definitely be doing.

Fair, and I have a whole-system backup (Backblaze), but if the unsaved Notepad++ files were lost, I don't even know what it is I'd have to download from BB to recover them. Obviously I can Google that and figure it out, but who knows... maybe the BB agent will consider them a cache and exclude them? The point is that I haven't really taken the time to consider much of this because step 1 would be to literally just hit the save button, and I haven't even done that.

More broadly, though, I don't know that I consider whole-system backups as important as I might have once. All my local important docs are in Dropbox, and all the code I'm working on is regularly synced out to git hosts. Other than some unimportant Fusion/Bambu projects, most of what I'd lose is honestly that same kind of ephemeral context that unsaved Notepad++ files are: terminal history, browser bar completions, my downloads folder, etc.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by nzd »

I'm sort of married to Sublime Text. I install all my plugins via "git clone" and never Package Control. Then I study their details, customize them in the source, modify keybindings etc. If you are this attached to a tool, it becomes an extension to your body.

P.S. No need to say that I update my plugins through code review!

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by lbrito »

369548684892826 wrote: post #486
lbrito wrote: post #399

Sublime user since 2014. I tried vim and nvim. Its just more overall effort and I'm never as productive as with Sublime. I tried zed and it doesn't work with Linux. I briefly opened vscode but haven't tried it out earnestly yet. I think its mostly muscle memory. I'm just too used to the shortcuts, workflow etc. You can teach new tricks to an old dog; I can learn and get used to another editor, but ultimately I always…

> I tried zed and it doesn't work with Linux Did you mean to say Windows? It definitely does work with Linux

I mean Linux. I know they offer a Linux build, I've tried it. It doesn't work out of the box on arguably the most popular Linux distribution. The "fixes" are doing a bunch of config I frankly don't have time for.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14204

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14237

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by nativeit »

nine_k wrote: post #539
pinoy420 wrote: post #537

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That sounds like an academic exercise rather than anything practical

It looks like the comment is posted to a wrong thread. (FTR, the setup above is used for practical, mostly commercial programming; I've left academia without even finishing my post-grad study, decades ago.)

I don’t believe they were referencing anything about literal higher education. In this context, saying something is an “academic exercise” is just a way of saying it’s being done more for one’s own edification, rather than any purely practical purposes.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by _cenw »

nottorp wrote: post #545
369548684892826 wrote: post #485

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An open source, fast, customizable cross-platform text editor with native UI and support for plugins and language servers. I don't think there's any other software that can tick all these boxes.

Language servers means "AI" right? The other boxes can be ticked by a lot of editors that were made before the js monopoly.

No, LSPs. Language servers is a pretty well-defined term.
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