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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by merryMellody »

schneidmaster wrote: post #124
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #103

I'm blown away by how snappy this is. It always is, but it's even better now. This is really impressive work. I don't think I'm the target audience here. I just spent 30m trying to tune this for a TypeScript project, and I can't seem to easily get eslint, prettier, and a few other tools working. I added the TypeScript language server package, but it doesn't offer any of the effortless reference navigation and refacto…

I've used the following list of packages for eslint, prettier, and TypeScript. It's not as effortless as it should be, but the two LSP packages in particular do give reference navigation that's pretty equivalent to VS Code. - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-eslint - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/JsPrettier - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LS…

Thank you so much for this! I was looking for an optimal config myself, and this saved me so much time :-) Cheers!

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by sigzero »

kwanbix wrote: post #344
nly wrote: post #300

It's software like Sublime that sustains my faith in the software industry and why I'm still a developer. It's beautiful, efficient software that single-handedly proves that desktop software in 2021 doesn't have to be a shit, low quality side show to SaaS "apps" and mobile. Heaven knows what their code looks like. Perhaps it's best it never goes open source so we can sustain the Opera-esque magic of a <10MB binary th…

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.

I have UltraEdit. It's okay. The wordfiles are woefully anemic to define languages. The snippet system as well. It really needs a revamp. Also, the MacOS version IS different from the Windows version. ST is the same on both platforms and that is important to me.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by username3 »

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.

How can I save groups of tabs so side views won’t get lost if I switch to another tab?

Edit: ctrl+tab saves, but mouse clicking a tab loses

How can I open find results in a split view?

How can I open definitions and references in split views without using the mouse to hover and click?

Edit: F12 and shift+F12.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Shadonototro »

- no GUI for settings

- no proper file swap/search without having a file preview

- still no LSP built-in

- still no open source (want to edit something like the preview file issue, then you are out of luck and must wait for an update)

- still no debugger built-in

- still no terminal built-in

It's paid and has many issues that doesn't exist in open-source alternatives..

It's sad because i used to love ST, now it is VERY hard to recommend it

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by naikrovek »

trzeci wrote: post #552
Greaka wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

UltraEdit can open huge files (multiple tens of GB) in seconds.

worth a look if you do this a lot.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by naikrovek »

bachmeier wrote: post #420
Greaka wrote: post #293

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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.

> Opening a 1 line 1GB file on a modern machine brings subl to a complete halt and regex editing is sheer impossible. Is this a common operation for a text editor?

try turning off syntax highlighting, if you haven't. that speeds up ST dramatically on large files, in my experience.

or give UltraEdit a try. it opens huge files with ease.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by fouric »

doodpants wrote: post #573
fouric wrote: post #548

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> When I need to open an editor QUICKLY Do you actually ever need to open a new editor ? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it? You probably don't shut down and start up your web browser every time you want to open a new site, so why would you do the analogue with your text editor?

> Do you actually ever need to open a new editor? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it? Speaking only for myself and not the GP: due to a lifelong habit of putting things away when I'm finished with them, I always close windows and quit applications when I'm done using them for my current task. > You probably don't shut down and start up your web browser every time y…

> due to a lifelong habit of putting things away when I'm finished with them, I always close windows and quit applications when I'm done using them for my current task

...but that's not a need - that's a preference, a habit, with no root in any utility or tradeoff.

> but yes, I quit my browser every time I'm finished with my current browsing session

That puts you in the minority of tech users, at least, if not computer users in general.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by dralley »

reader_mode wrote: post #355
nix23 wrote: post #255

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You sound like a really amateurish marketing firm.

What am I selling exactly ? The idea that it's ridiculous to expect people to optimise professional tools for your 5+ years old hardware ?

Sure. If it works on 5 year old hardware, it almost certainly works even better on new hardware. I don't find this an unreasonable expectation.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mambusskruj »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #480
fdeage wrote: post #380

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Hi there, Thanks for this release! I use ST every day and I love it: the speed, the efficiency, everything. The one thing I miss, though, is manipulating files from the left panel (moving files especially). I know there is a plug-in doing that (Side Bar) but it lacks drag-and-drop support. Any plan to have it natively in the future?

It's been on our radar but hasn't been a high priority so far. You can currently use rename to move a file across directories using `../` or similar.

OMG this is so convenient! Just fall in love with this behavior. It'll be even better with autocomplete ;)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by quickthrower2 »

istjohn wrote: post #511
quickthrower2 wrote: post #416

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That’s pretty cool. I use vim for this particular need and it’s quick to search through big files too

Really? I've found Vim slows to a crawl on multi-GB files. Maybe that's changed recently or it was down to the plug-ins I was using?

I use vim out of the box with no plugins and on windows. Not sure if that makes a difference. I’m also typically not editing the file but searching logs.
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