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Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by mostlysimilar »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #61
0x073 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok for context: You got st3 with a license, and maybe plugins. St3 got regular updates to new minor versions. They brought the st4 update like the other minor version updates. Destroyed the whole st ide setup (plugins didn't work for st4) And st3 licence can't be used for st4 (you get the st4 licence if you bought st3 some months before) If I use st for private stuff that would be annoying, but as I use it for my wor…

Sorry that happened to you. We've since improved our updater to avoid this happening again, but your loss of trust is understandable. Hopefully downgrading back to ST3 was not too big of a hassle. ST4 has full backwards compatibility for plugins, keeping the same python 3.3 ST3 shipped with, so I'm surprised your setup broke. ST3 licenses were also fully transitioned to ST4, so any license less than 3 years old cover…

Thank you for making such good software and being decent people. Sublime Text is my go-to example of a small team making quality software that puts people first. I'm very grateful.

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by tored »

pilif wrote: post #24

Sublime Merge is cough sublimely good at performing 3-way merges. I don't like it as much as a generic git frontend (nothing beats the command line once you're used to it, but for 3-way merges, it's absolutely perfect and I have yet to see anything better. Another very good tool for 3-way merges is meld, but the macOS port (where I do most of my development work on) is not very good, mostly because the GTK macOS port…

I use WinMerge for that, unfortunately, as the name implies, Windows only.

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by tored »

0x073 wrote: post #28

Since the auto update for sublimetext to version 4 where I don't have a license for I switched to vscode and never looked back. At first I lost my trust and then I liked vsc more.

I added

  "update_check": false
to my Preferences.sublime-settings for ST3, seems to have solved it.

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by on_the_train »

not_the_fda wrote: post #75
on_the_train wrote: post #73

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The last news on the website is from 2022. Is there another place to see updates? Because I too had all sublime tools as "abandoned" in my mind.

The download page have decent release cycle. https://www.sublimemerge.com/download https://www.sublimetext.com/download And they have dev releases. https://www.sublimemerge.com/dev https://www.sublimetext.com/dev Its mature software that doesn't require a constant churn of bug fixes and updates, that's not a bad thing.

They might want to consider posting those on the news site then. Because it looks abandoned

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by squigz »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #70
squigz wrote: post #62

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Does ST4 require a license? I'm still on 3 and I know it doesn't require one.

Sublime Text has always required a license, but has an unlimited trial period with a nag popup.

That's what I meant, as it effectively doesn't "require" a license :P

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by ubercow13 »

tored wrote: post #82
pilif wrote: post #24

Sublime Merge is cough sublimely good at performing 3-way merges. I don't like it as much as a generic git frontend (nothing beats the command line once you're used to it, but for 3-way merges, it's absolutely perfect and I have yet to see anything better. Another very good tool for 3-way merges is meld, but the macOS port (where I do most of my development work on) is not very good, mostly because the GTK macOS port…

I use WinMerge for that, unfortunately, as the name implies, Windows only.

I don't think WinMerge supports proper 3 way merge..

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by ben-schaaf »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #77
fastball wrote: post #49

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Trust was lost because they... released a new version of their software?

(I'm working from memory, so I may bungle details) Speaking personally, I enjoyed Sublime Text, so I was happy to pay for a license back in the day ($70 if I recall?). When v2 came out, I paid to upgrade, and again with v3. When v4 was released, I paid yet again, but after a period of normal use (a year if I recall), I got a popup informing me I'd need to pay again to keep using ST4. I felt like I'd been hoodwinked--…

We only have subscriptions for businesses (there's a whole separate purchase process), regular licenses cover 3 years worth of updates and are perpetual. That's a similar time period between license purchases to before ST4. We announced this change at the top of our ST4 release post and describe it when you purchase a license.

If your regular license only covered a year of updates that's certainly a bug and I suggest contacting sales@sublimetext.com so we can sort that out.

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by ben-schaaf »

lsllc wrote: post #71

Long time Sublime user, both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. I started back with ST2, ST3 and I have ST4 and have use Merge since it was released. These days I now mostly use nvim+lazyvim for coding but I do continue to use Sublime Merge as my primary git environment. @ben-schaaf I'd love to see tree-sitter+LSP come to Sublime Text, as well as telescope+rg+fzf style fuzzy search. I find the lazyvim+telescope integrat…

There's well supported LSP plugins for Sublime Text, and also a working tree sitter plugin. If that's what you're looking for I suggest giving those a try.

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by wodenokoto »

fastball wrote: post #34
wodenokoto wrote: post #27

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It’s also very good at committing chunks, especially from different files in the same commit. It’s not good at getting an overview of your history or blaming, but for committing and merging it is really nice

What don't you like about the blame interface?

Maybe they improved, I actually haven’t tried for years. I mostly would click blame on a line in sublime text and leave it at that. I just never felt smerge was good at digging around history. Maybe I’ll give it another try

Re: Sublime Merge

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Post by dgellow »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #32
dgellow wrote: post #18

curious what GUI framework they are using. I have a sublime merge license, everything feels really snappy

The GUI framework we use for ST and SM is fully custom. We use GTK, Cocoa and Win32 for platform integration and custom software/OpenGL rendering (with a little help from Skis).

Thanks! Not open source I presume? Would be interested to learn more
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