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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by rajandatta »

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.

Same here! Made the journey from QEdit to Vim to UltraEdit to Notepad++. These days I'm dabbling in Emacs and Notepad++.

Emacs for Org-mode - arguably the most revelatory single piece of software I've seen in 40 years of working with Software. Notepad++ is a safety crutch that I haven't let go.

Visual Code is OK. Not exciting though lots of respect for it.

UtlraEdit's smoothness, speed and polish are highly commendable. Just don't have the need to spend on the annual licensing for it.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by blissofbeing »

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.

Is there any chance you'll be adding support for moving the sidebar to the right? This is the one stopping me from moving back to sublime.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Nicksil »

fouric wrote: post #587
doodpants wrote: post #573

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> 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 compu…

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

Is that an anecdote or is that assertion derived from some study?

I, too, close all windows/processes when I'm through with use. The overwhelming majority of people I've worked with have all done the same; of course that is anecdotal.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by zumu »

unknown_error wrote: post #478
zumu wrote: post #268

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VSCode is much much faster than the popular IDEs (namely, IntelliJ) in my experience. I'd say it occupies a middle point between full IDE and text editor.

Is VSCode still fast after you add enough plugins to make it reach feature parity with IntelliJ? I've tried VSCode a few times through the years, but it always seemed like I needed at least a dozen plugins to get all the features I have out-of-the-box with PhpStorm. I guess it's a philosophical difference between modular components and a big ol' monolith (though, beneath the hood, IntelliJ IS modular... most of their…

I haven't had issues with plugin bloat, personally.

A nice feature is you can disable/enable plugins per workspace so you can only load your Java plugins for your java projects, etc.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by dmitshur »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #474
dmitshur wrote: post #462

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Question about license upgrades. The page says: > Note you can upgrade to the bundle from either a Sublime Text or Sublime Merge license. Right now I have a ST3 license and would like to upgrade it to both ST4 and Sublime Merge. If one upgrades to a bundle now, will it be possible in the future to upgrade the bundle license to a single product one? Or is the only option to buy a new single product license instead? (I…

Currently you can only upgrade from a bundle to a bundle, but the exact behavior hasn't been fully decided on yet. I'll look into clarifying that.

Thank you.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by gaws »

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.

Do you use Sublime Text for development?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by zeppelin101 »

sturmeh wrote: post #170
SavantIdiot wrote: post #40

I feel bad using VSCode after years of supporting Sublime (by purchasing a license). However the one case where I do use sublime repeatedly? When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. It boots faster than VSCode, and frankly, it finally broke me of my constant habit of VIMming now that I have it on my mac, win and linux boxes. I am eager to try V4, but I'm so deep in VSCode now, I don't know if I can find my way out! I c…

My favourite aspect of sublime is that the "sessions" are so reliable. I often just open it to jot something down, and before I know it I have 15-20 notes on separate pages, I'll consolidate and save them to a file somewhere or delete them if necessary. It's just a super reliable scratchpad and a versatile modern textfile editor.

This is exactly how I use Sublime Text. It's probably a workable development environment, but there are too many solid alternatives for that purpose for me. But as far as a quick text or code editor, there is nothing else I'd rather use.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by saagarjha »

freddie_mercury wrote: post #372
saagarjha wrote: post #277

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Some people have budgets of $0; they have to use the device they're using currently. I'm already feeling empathy for them in a year or two once all their apps are written by software engineers on Apple silicon Macs who don't test performance on older hardware…

If their budget is $0 then Sublime Text isn't an option, so I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Sublime Text costs $100.

Sublime Text can (and is) used by many people who pay nothing for it. And, to be clear, I was talking about apps in general, not just Sublime Text–which is one of the few apps I trust to not fall victim to the issues I described.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by saagarjha »

threeseed wrote: post #379
saagarjha wrote: post #277

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Some people have budgets of $0; they have to use the device they're using currently. I'm already feeling empathy for them in a year or two once all their apps are written by software engineers on Apple silicon Macs who don't test performance on older hardware…

All of the worst performing apps on OSX are cross-platform. So not sure why you're feeling sympathy when you will have exactly the same performance issues only without the power and efficiency of the M1 SOC.

That is true, but it's possible to avoid using those. What you can't avoid using the actual OS itself. Try booting into Yosemite sometime and comparing your computer's idle resource usage to the latest Big Sur and you'll see what I mean: try as I might, I cannot get the computer to use less than 5% CPU usage, while this used to be trivial.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

gaws wrote: post #596
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.

Do you use Sublime Text for development?

I've been using Sublime Text long before I started working. I use it for any code or text related functionality. Of course it's also used internally by everyone working on our products.
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