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Re: Sublime Text 4

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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.

We do have something on the backburner for this.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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As always it depends on the hardware. I've personally found that things start to get slow at >1440p.

Is there a typing latency penalty to GPU rendering?

Latency in fact would be reduced due to faster rendering. Remember that it needs to go to the GPU eventually anyway in order to output to a display.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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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.

If you could say one thing to a person currently using vs code to get them to try sublime, what would that be? It can't be "speed".

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Awesome. Sublime is my favorite editor by far. Performance, multiple cursors, and syntax highlighting is all I need Couple questions: 1. I already have JSX and TypeScript plugins installed. Should I remove those? 2. When will there be a `~/Library/Sublime Text 4/` directory now?

> I already have JSX and TypeScript plugins installed. Should I remove those?

Yes, you're likely best off uninstalling third party syntaxes for those languages.

> When will there be a `~/Library/Sublime Text 4/` directory now?

See https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/side_by_side.html

Re: Sublime Text 4

#605

Does it integrate with the OS text input facilities already? The last time I checked Sublime didn't support Windows 10 native word hints, MacOS long-press accented letter input and didn't accept keyboard shortcuts during using non-latin keyboard layout on Linux. Great job anyway, Sublime is really cool.

With ST4 we have native support for windows IME and better keyboard support on Linux and Mac OS. The long press has been working for ages as far as I'm aware.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Is there any way to get it to render at over 60Hz? I've got a high refresh rate monitor but Sublime still renders in 60Hz. I've enabled the hardware_acceleration and it shows up in the console but still no dice.

Oh, I was wrong, sorry. It turns out that it does render in 120Hz but the smooth scrolling is somehow still capped at 60Hz. Is there a way to fix that ?

ST4 on Windows and Linux use vsync to render animations like smooth scrolling at the monitors refresh rate.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Notepad is on every system

I can’t seem to find it on my Mac :) Joking aside, even if it were on every system, I don’t see it having much use outside of the very, very rare edit in a system that isn’t my own.

The last I saw inside a Mac was around the time the Lisa was being developed. Did they ever get right click to work?

Textedit would be the Mac version.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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I love Sublime, I've paid for every version and I did the same for my devs for many years (when I had a company cc!). I would just like to say remote editing is the only thing I use vscode for. If ST had remote editing I and probably a lot of other people would use it more. Once again, love sublime, just a suggestion :)

Install xserver (also works on Mac and Windows) then ssh -X to the container. Start sublime on the container, and the gui will show up locally.

For one off things, it's easy enough to just use something like WinSCP or ssh + vim. Having to count on a remote environment having all of the X client software installed to do X forwarding and sublime text to boot is going to leave a lot of people disappointed. If subl supported remote editing out of the box the presence of any extra software beyond, say SSH, becomes something no one needs to care about. Bonus, your local install is already configured and setup exactly the way you like it.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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We've certainly talked about it, but there aren't any concrete plans yet.

I love Sublime, I've paid for every version and I did the same for my devs for many years (when I had a company cc!). I would just like to say remote editing is the only thing I use vscode for. If ST had remote editing I and probably a lot of other people would use it more. Once again, love sublime, just a suggestion :)

I remote edit with ST. I choose File | Open to get the native Open dialog, type 'sftp://my.dev.server' and press Enter. Username and password logs me in. Then I navigate to the folder I want, and open a file or folder in ST.

I don't use VS Code. How do you do it there that is so much better?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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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?

You need to turn off syntax highlighting before opening a really large file in vim. Otherwise the syntax parsing takes an age.

:syntax off

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