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Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by kolev »

eknkc wrote: post #19
ggreer wrote: post #5

Please note that this is a dev build of Sublime Text 3. You can only get it by manually downloading or checking for updates using a dev build. The most recent stable build of ST3 is from December of 2013.[1] Dev builds are alpha-quality and generally unsuitable for everyday use. The current build will change permissions on any file you save.[2] 1. http://www.sublimetext.com/3 2. http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewt…

He says he'll fix it in the next build.. Which I assume, will be released in 6 to 36 months. Yay!

Patience is a great virtue!

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by bnt »

eknkc wrote: post #19
ggreer wrote: post #5

Please note that this is a dev build of Sublime Text 3. You can only get it by manually downloading or checking for updates using a dev build. The most recent stable build of ST3 is from December of 2013.[1] Dev builds are alpha-quality and generally unsuitable for everyday use. The current build will change permissions on any file you save.[2] 1. http://www.sublimetext.com/3 2. http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewt…

He says he'll fix it in the next build.. Which I assume, will be released in 6 to 36 months. Yay!

While we understand sarcasm, we should give credit to Jon.

Developing a great editor such as ST is a task big teams would have a hard time pulling off, let alone a single developer who is, BTW, running all aspects of the company.

So, sit back and shut up, ST2 works great, ST3 works great. You don't need an update every day just for the sake of being updated.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by kolev »

hit8run wrote: post #32

Sublimetext 3 beta is really stable and fast as hell. I don't know what black magic they use under osx but it is even smoother than http://chocolatapp.com which is a native cocoa based editor with nice builtin code completions for many languages.

Agreed. That's why we all love Sublime Text and why we are so pissed off that we can find the pulse.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by shurcooL »

hit8run wrote: post #32

Sublimetext 3 beta is really stable and fast as hell. I don't know what black magic they use under osx but it is even smoother than http://chocolatapp.com which is a native cocoa based editor with nice builtin code completions for many languages.

The magic is called OpenGL and hardware accelerated graphics.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by krondor »

coldtea wrote: post #38

People talk about the "bus factor", and how OSS would have been a better option. But far more often I've been beaten from the: 1) "Yeah, core devs moved on now, and nobody cares to maintain this OSS software". 2) "Yeah, core devs decided to rewrite everything from scratch and change APIs and ABIs".

Because that doesn't happen outside of the OSS world?

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by psychometry »

teilo wrote: post #30
psychometry wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of ST users are former Textmate users, too. So we've certainly been through this rigamarole before.

Textmate 2 did exactly what Blender did. Went open source, has a healthy developer community, and has had steady updates for a couple of years. They still call it "Alpha" but it is very stable and I use it every day.

True, but before Textmate was open-sourced, there was a long period of frustration due to lack of progress and communication from the developer.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by indeyets »

kolev wrote: post #60
jbrooksuk wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does it need cosmetic changes? There are a few actual bugs to sort out first.

Agreed, my point was that it's a dead project as new updates don't even have cosmetic changes. I bought a license, I really like it, but just like Intype and E on Windows and Kod and TextMate on Mac, the fate of Sublime Text is pretty clear.

but textmate is alive and new builds are released quite often! https://github.com/textmate/textmate/

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by maccard »

cwyers wrote: post #20
maccard wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But do they still update the stable version of ST2? From what I gather "beta" is his way of describing the fact that he's actively developing it

The last release of Sublime Text 2 was over a year ago. And the post I was responding to was claiming Sublime Text 3 was already stable.

My point is that the "released" version has been abandoned. He's not supporting previous versions at all, you pay for access to an actual beta build, but if you happened to buy the full product you're SOL

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by lucian1900 »

steveeq1 wrote: post #50
coldtea wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not what it can't do or how many things more Emacs can do, it's how each goes about them. Not being tied into a BS-pseudo-Lisp runtime is an essential for me. And not having been designed with 1990 display technology in mind too.

I still don't get it. What's wrong with using a lisp as the underlying architecture? This should be an advantage.

One of the problems is that it's a terrible Lisp and runtime. If it was at least a Scheme, there would be less complaining. Also, Lisps aren't popular, as you surely know.

The display technology assumes a text terminal, just like vim. There are many things you can't do with that which are easy with a proper GUI.

Re: Sublime Text 3 Updated

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Post by rimantas »

steveeq1 wrote: post #59
steveeq1 wrote: post #37

I read up on this editor a little bit, but the thing that gets me is: what's wrong with emacs? I don't see anything this editor does that emacs can't do.

Why is this being downvoted? As an emacs user, I'm trying to figure out what's the advantage to using sublime.

Number one advantage: it is not emacs.
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