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Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#81

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

Sublime is one of my favorite software - Great UX, super fast, stable and bug free.

Thanks for listening and fixing the issue I've requested (handling files renames/deletes outside Sublime).

The only thing I'd like improved would be syntax-aware code folding, and folding support for Markdown files.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#82
post #36

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight co…

Except for handling extremely large files, VSCode does all of that.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#83
post #36

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight co…

Except for handling extremely large files, VSCode does all of that.

Or projects with a ton of files. I had such issues on ST3 i tried a bunch of others and now i wont even consider paying for or trying an ST4 upgrade.

Als i sometimes still accidentally start ST3 and i cant seem to disable the update check? I have tried a bunch of google answers but it still pops up, anybody else had/has this?

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#84
post #36

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight co…

Throwing this out here since you mentioned it - does anyone else get tons of hangups and temporary frozen windows using Sublime with unsaved files? I’ve always had this on a bunch of different Macs and some Linux machines. I don’t like working around by saving either, sometimes I just want a scratchpad.

The UI still hangs up when anything (including a project) is loaded from a slow sshfs mount. For this case I found optimizing the sshfs mount settings mostly fixed this. Now only rarely, sshfs decides it doesn't like something about itself and takes down Sublime with it.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for handling extremely large files, VSCode does all of that.

Or projects with a ton of files. I had such issues on ST3 i tried a bunch of others and now i wont even consider paying for or trying an ST4 upgrade. Als i sometimes still accidentally start ST3 and i cant seem to disable the update check? I have tried a bunch of google answers but it still pops up, anybody else had/has this?

Preferences -> Settings

Add the following to your user prefs file:

  "update_check": false

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#86

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

What would you say ST's main weakness is right now, and (how) do SublimeHQ plan to address it?

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#87
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please fix the issue on code folding being based on indentation and not syntax. People regularly write on this issue and it's still not fixed. That's the only thing that stands between me and buying ST.

I wasn't aware that this is an issue. It seems to me that the existing feature is 'text-based' folding rather than 'code-based'. I wouldn't notice as indentation very closely follows the code block structure in most of the code-bases I edit. It could be useful to open a feature request for 'code-based' folding, if the existing 'text-based' one is considered to be working as intended. That way we're not fighting over…

For info, I was talking about this one:

https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/101

Editors like visual studio IDE properly fold code so that it results in a compact layout once it's folded. I would guess indentation-based folding could be made more compact and not take unnecessary lines.

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#88

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

Have you had any thoughts about how to improve the indentation engine ST uses to handle the common "switch"/"case" statement style? As I understand, it would mainly require a way to unindent 2 levels at once when typing the closing brace (or just getting it to match the open brace line/position) and for the first `case` to not unindent, just the later ones (which to be fair, may already be possible with some creative meta scoping and tmPreferences fun, though perhaps just not easy to maintain).

e.g.

switch (something) {

    case one:

        return;

    case two:

        foo();

        break;

}

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#89

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

Any plan on developing a database tool? I think it would be a great complement to Sublime Text and Sublime Merge.

I believe Sublime HQ could really bring something in this space, because there are some good existing ones but none are great. Sublime DB could be great :)

Re: Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)

#90

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :) If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

What would you say ST's main weakness is right now, and (how) do SublimeHQ plan to address it?

Also, curious to know, what do you like most about developing Sublime, and what do you like least?
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