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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by tadaima » Sat, May 22, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

nix23 wrote: post #247

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.

I would love to use ST on FreeBSD and Solaris natively, i know it's a niche and probably not worth the time, but still here i said it. BTW: Thanks for a great Editor.

FreeBSD ports:

https://github.com/matias-pizarro/freebsd-custom-ports/tree/...

Hopefully soon these will get added to the official ports repo and you can find them there:

https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-text

https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-merge

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by markogresak » Sat, May 22, 2021, 6:31 PM UTC

I saw a post about ST4 beta here on HN about a month ago. Decided to pay for the license to support the devs, as I was using just the evaluation version before I’ve started by programming career, and then I’ve switched to IDEs and went back to editor world with Atom. ST introduced me to the world of multiple cursors and easy to usr shortcuts. Atom ported that well, and it’s the first thing I set up in vscode (thanks to the atom keymap package).

Sadly, I agree with the post I saw on the other thread month or so ago: “too little, too late”.

I see a lot of mention of how ST is fast, and that’s impressive. But being fast does not make my job web dev easier. Vscode still delivers a superior developer experience, it’s easier for me to understand what’s going on under the hood and work with plugins. The speed is good enough, I work around the slower startup by having a window open at all times while working, so opening a new file is nearly instant.

I’m still glad that I’ve paid for the license. It makes me happy to see small apps that pack a punch and are fast, rather than going for the lazy way of using electron and eat up resources like crazy. I intend to give ST more time on my personal projects. But I just don’t feel as productive, and to me it matters when I’m using an editor almost 8h a day.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by reader_mode » Sat, May 22, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

dralley wrote: post #588

reader_mode wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Works on != runs fast, I think vscode runs on raspberry pi or something along those lines.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by manuelmagic » Sat, May 22, 2021, 9:31 PM UTC

thelastidiot wrote: post #519

Unfortunately, ny company won't let us install software thats not signed.

Could the portable version do the trick?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by manuelmagic » Sat, May 22, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

pablodev wrote: post #365

Am I the only one who doesn't like the layout? I really liked Sublime 3, I use it on a daily basis but something doesn't look right on this Sublime 4 :( idk

I changed the tabs angles, the theme, the colors scheme and the caret blinking back to look identical to ST3.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by manuelmagic » Sat, May 22, 2021, 9:37 PM UTC

user-the-name wrote: post #402

Does it have a preferences UI yet?

No, .json file as always. Honestly, I like it this way: it is easier to search for parameters and the comments over them explain quickly what each parameter does and how it can be changed.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mszcz » Sat, May 22, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #606

mszcz wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Doesn't seem to work in my setup. If I use the scroll bar manually by dragging it I do get 120Hz. Using mouse scroll wheel is 60Hz for sure. Same scroll wheel in Chrome/FF and it's 120Hz.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by nix23 » Sat, May 22, 2021, 11:05 PM UTC

tadaima wrote: post #621

nix23 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to use ST on FreeBSD and Solaris natively, i know it's a niche and probably not worth the time, but still here i said it. BTW: Thanks for a great Editor.

FreeBSD ports: https://github.com/matias-pizarro/freebsd-custom-ports/tree/... https://github.com/matias-pizarro/freebsd-custom-ports/tree/... Hopefully soon these will get added to the official ports repo and you can find them there: https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-text https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-merge

That's why i wrote natively. I could also install Wine and download the exe file instead ;)

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by spurgu » Sat, May 22, 2021, 11:35 PM UTC

sigzero wrote: post #540

fclaerho wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perfs! If you don't want to wait 4h for files to load. When I see my colleagues trying to open files on VS, I can't understand how that's acceptable.

That is not true about vscode anymore. It is fairly performant now.

"Fairly" performant vs the blazing speed of ST?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by KitDuncan » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #14

Does anyone still choose Sublime over VS Code? I wonder what plugins I'd miss from a frontend dev perspective.

Just tried ST4 over the weekend and decided to switch from VSCode. Basically got everything set up exactly the same, but ST4 feels a lot better/faster.