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Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by chadv »

techiferous wrote: post #34

Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.

Sublime is nice, and would probably be the best choice if you were choosing your first text editor. If you are coming from TextMate, it depends on your situation. Sublime is faster, it has a nice always-on, miniaturized preview of your whole document, and it has tremendous momentum in the developer community. I'm primarily a designer who writes JS and CSS, and, so far, Sublime's benefits don't outweigh the arduousness of committing different keyboard shortcuts to muscle memory. So, I have both installed, but I still use TM primarily. My good friend, who is a much better programmer than I, prefers Sublime. He is a fast learner and so his "switching cost" for new editors is relatively low.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

jguimont wrote: post #35
techiferous wrote: post #34

Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.

Much better than TextMate. Faster, actually actively developed. Just cmd-t and cmd-p makes it worth the switch.

Agreed - the incredible speed of pulling up files in ST2 is great. And searching across dirs / projects is much, much faster than TM, also. There are few things that I miss, every so often (printing, dragging selected text), but I am overall very happy to have bought ST2. I haven't yet needed to install on a machine running another OS, but that is also a very nice perk.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by erikpukinskis »

LokiSnake wrote: post #74
ricardobeat wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't he? Are you using MS-DOS?

I still prefer to not have spaces in file names. I then don't need to use quotes or escape spaces when typing the file name in the shell.

backslash-space isn't any harder to type than shift-underscore.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by davepeck »

dedward wrote: post #75

I'm on 2180 - why does an update say "2180 is the most current version?" I've been on the fence between vim, textmate, and sublime text 2...... liking st2 more and more, though not for any particular reason. It will be interesting to see what the community comes up with as it grows...... tons of room for awesome expansion as far as I can see. (needs more default syntax plugins)

2180 is a dev build; 2181 is a beta build. If you're using dev builds, beta builds (which ship about once a month) won't be part of your update stream.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

kstrauser wrote: post #66
outworlder wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate? I find it hard to work on projects where I have many files open, unless I am using Emacs (with ido-mode). Tabs are just too slow, cumbersome and don't scale.

ST2 handles this much like ido-mode. Press cmd-P to open the "Goto Anything" dialog and type a few letters from a filename to get a list of matching files from the current project. I'm not exactly sure of the weighting algorithm, but it seems to almost always highlight files that are already open so that pressing enter will take me directly to the tab I wanted. Whether you have 100 Emacs buffers open or 100 ST2 tabs,…

Why keep 100 ST2 tabs open when like you've said it's so fast to just cmd-p to pull up the file you need, open or not (unless you have a very large number of files with the same name)? I summon and dismiss files like crazy, but I generally only keep a few things open at any time.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by modulusprime »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #14

The new icon is better, but I still prefer this third party icon: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

Here's another, different concept: https://github.com/jnelson/Sublime-Text-2-icon---buddha-halo [EDIT: comments/critique welcome, it's mine, I'm not a good designer]

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by georgemcbay »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #85
kstrauser wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ST2 handles this much like ido-mode. Press cmd-P to open the "Goto Anything" dialog and type a few letters from a filename to get a list of matching files from the current project. I'm not exactly sure of the weighting algorithm, but it seems to almost always highlight files that are already open so that pressing enter will take me directly to the tab I wanted. Whether you have 100 Emacs buffers open or 100 ST2 tabs,…

Why keep 100 ST2 tabs open when like you've said it's so fast to just cmd-p to pull up the file you need, open or not (unless you have a very large number of files with the same name)? I summon and dismiss files like crazy, but I generally only keep a few things open at any time.

Personally I like to keep many files open so that I have undo buffers for them in case I change my mind. This is a subjective thing and I know there are other ways to solve the same issue (keeping versioned files ala Dropbox, etc), but easy undo of recent-but-not-too-recent changes is the #1 reason I tend to keep tons of files open when editing projects.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

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Post by Silhouette »

mise wrote: post #9

My main objective with Sublime is to master the keyboard shortcuts. Stuff like (on the PC) Ctrl+D to select the current word, and repeat for next occurrences. This starts up a multiple-selection that you can just type and all selected occurrences are replaced. I forked a GitHub Gist from others and tweaked it a bit, for reference to useful shortcuts: https://gist.github.com/1736542

> Stuff like (on the PC) Ctrl+D to select the current word, and repeat for next occurrences.

We're evaluating Sublime Text 2 right now, and for me that alone is a killer feature that is likely to earn them their new customer unless anything desperately show-stopping turns up between now and when they make the official release.

My only wish is that it the feature was just slightly more flexible, if only having a corresponding keystroke to deselect/skip an instance. It's so darned useful that it actively annoys me now if I use the same term in two different contexts and can't separate out just one of them, even though no other editor/IDE I use has this feature at all! :-)

I'm starting to figure out the Python integration now, though, so maybe I'll be able to set that up myself in due course, which really would convince me to spend real money on the software...

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