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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by bitexploder »

lvoudour wrote: post #553
bitexploder wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First: I love ST. It is an amazing software that runs just as good on Mac/Linux/Win. In a pinch I will download and use it and never complain. Python extensibility is also great, since Python is the language I do best. That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs? * Performance: Acceptable on modern day * Goto Anything: Helm/Projectile, command palette = M-x * Text Editing: It is what emacs does be…

>That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs? I intentionally didn't include console editors, totally different beasts. Never used emacs, only learned vim and only touched the surface, mostly use it when I ssh to remote machines. The pinnacle of flexibility and responsiveness but the learning curve... it's just too much for me. You're right though, it's a great investment and as the years pass and…

I use emacs in an X window 90% of the time, but it almost universally translates over to a tty. Fonts are just easier when it runs as an X window :)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by joemaller1 »

mstade wrote: post #70

I honestly can't believe I'm saying this, but: can you please enable me to buy a new license for 4.0 even though it may not even be on the road map yet? Or switch to / enable a subscriber model which is paid yearly and gives access to all upgrades? I rely so much on sublime for my day to day work and I fear the $80 or whatever I paid for it whenever ago is too cheap for the amount of value I'm getting out of it, and…

Just buy another license.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by laxk »

mstade wrote: post #70

I honestly can't believe I'm saying this, but: can you please enable me to buy a new license for 4.0 even though it may not even be on the road map yet? Or switch to / enable a subscriber model which is paid yearly and gives access to all upgrades? I rely so much on sublime for my day to day work and I fear the $80 or whatever I paid for it whenever ago is too cheap for the amount of value I'm getting out of it, and…

Probably they just need to add a Donate button for people who wants give more than license fee only.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by rdavis »

marsrover wrote: post #145
eptakilo wrote: post #10

I primarily use VSCode as my editor but I used Sublime back in the days. I haven't touched it in a while. How do these two editors compare lately?

I downloaded Sublime 3 to try it out, just now. The first thing I did was install Vintageous. I hit `{` and the cursor didn't move. I love Sublime and used it for many years. It's fast, it looks good, and it's a great editor. It's hard to find an extension ecosystem like VSCode, though. I doubt I'll be returning to Sublime.

Check out NeoVintageous [0]. It's the continuation of Vintageous and adds some great features.

[0] https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by bitmapbrother »

musage wrote: post #484
lvoudour wrote: post #136

Sublime is probably the first GUI text editor that left me satisfied. Everything else over the years was either non-portable, slow or lacking features. After two months of use I just had to buy it, it's worth the price. - It's fast and responsive, can handle large files and personally I've never seen it leaking memory or crashing - Love the goto anything and command palette, brilliant - Text editing is great and can…

Have you ever seen UltraEdit? I dare you to try the trial, actually go through the exquisite configuration dialogs to make it yours, and then to ever look back :) This isn't as a knock on ST, which I also like, and might even sometimes prefer for pure writing or temporary notes. But it doesn't even have printing out of the box, come on. For me that's too modern.. plugins are nice, but I guess I prefer UE to ST like I…

I have and switched when I discovered how badly UltraEdit choked on very large files.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by crispinb »

jeffbax wrote: post #483
anderber wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting comparison. Curious as what you think makes OS X better. From what I understand Ubuntu is faster, uses less resources and is much more extensible. All things know to be Sublime-like.

*macOS ;) For me, the UI paradigms are certainly more cohesive… but most importantly I don't think any platform has the quality software that OS X has when it comes to attention to detail/usability. Like many with Sublime, I'm happy to pay for other commercial software if its notably better than the free options. Ubuntu is probably leaner, but in an age of i7s and 16GB ram not sure that matters as much. OS X is aggre…

I agree with all of this except

> the hardware is unbeatable

The new macbook pros are gobsmackingly expensive in much of the world, marginally less so in the US. Apple's obdurate refusal to use touch screens puts them far behind the mainstream leading edge now. I understand their reasoning, but haven't yet met anyone with a touchscreen laptop who would go back to using one without.

And the coup de grace is the new fake keyboard, which is unusable for all-row touch typists. My next laptop will most likely be a Dell XPS 15 with one flavour or other of Linux. I'd prefer macOS, but the hardware isn't worth living with.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by noway421 »

jcolella wrote: post #74

"One of the areas I'm especially proud of in Sublime Text 3 is performance". I totally agree with this statement. Writing software in sublime has certainly made my life easier. Kudos to Jon and team.

I opened 70mb file on a macbook air the other day, and apart from around 7 sec loading time, i didn't notice that it is any more than a 100 kb just by the UI feel. Really great job.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by Rondom »

jefurii wrote: post #391
agentgt wrote: post #263

One of the reasons I still use both Emacs and Vim (yes I strangely use both) is because I can go execute them on a terminal (terminal, tmux, screen, etc). There are just so many times I need to SSH into a machine. I know Emacs has some remote file editing capabilities but for some reason I never liked it (I can't recall why now... I think it was the need to sudo). So I'm wondering what sublime text fans do for remote…

> I know Emacs has some remote file editing capabilities but for some reason I never liked it (I can't recall why now... I think it was the need to sudo). Tramp ( https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/tramp-emacs.html ) enables seamless remote editing over ssh/scp. By default it asks for your password all the time but you can cache that. Add to your ~/.emacs (require 'tramp) (setq tramp-default-method "scp") (setq passw…

You probably should use public key authentication and ssh-agent.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by crispinb »

Varcht wrote: post #531

500+ comments and no mention of the touch bar support? Not really surprised, after 6 mos I don't think I've used the touch bar for anything other than mute / volume.

Perhaps because so many developers avoid the touch bar macbooks? Everyone I know here has been buying 15" mbpro refurbs to forestall the dreaded day (ie. touch bar or just abandon macs?)
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