Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
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#3It'll be interesting to see how this stacks up performance-wise.
My main reason for using Sublime over something like Atom is that Atom is a hog, both in the large (memory) and slow senses of the word.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#4This was an interesting attempt but I think development kind of stalled. The original creator, quarnster, left the project.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#5As much as this is refreshing, Sublime just works though.
Even Sublime 2 wasn't that bad you'd want Sublime 3. For heavy projects I use IntelliJ. I was happy to pay for Sublime. I remember switching from Textmate to Sublime because it had compelling arguments.
Sublime is the perfect editor between Notepad and IntelliJ. Anyway I hope this is just as good.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#6> Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go
It's very interesting to me that this is the most important statement the creators can make about their project. Of course anyone making a text editor will say it is powerful and elegant. As an end-user, I rarely care what language a text editor is written in. At least not right up front. It might matter if I'm interested in extending or modifying it. Maybe this fragment can be improved.
The second half of the sentence actually gives me an idea what problem it is solving and why it exists:
> that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text.
(Awesome!)
The second paragraph is also very interesting and draws my interest.
I love the "Roadmap" button, neat touch. It shows very clear goals and a reasonable amount of progress.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#7Looks interesting. I'd recommend packaging some installation options instead of just source. I plan to check it out later, but it would sit higher on my queue if it were easier to try out.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#8Textmate, Atom and Sublime were been successful editors, I've seen limeeditor since 2008 or something they've been there for windows only, and now trying to do with cross platform, very interesting.... the roadmap looks promising too. Hope we wil be able to get an nice editor soon
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#9This was an interesting attempt but I think development kind of stalled. The original creator, quarnster, left the project.
You're right. Blog and roadmap haven't been editted since 2014.
Re: Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
#10As much as this is refreshing, Sublime just works though. Even Sublime 2 wasn't that bad you'd want Sublime 3. For heavy projects I use IntelliJ. I was happy to pay for Sublime. I remember switching from Textmate to Sublime because it had compelling arguments. Sublime is the perfect editor between Notepad and IntelliJ. Anyway I hope this is just as good.
Do any of these text editors you mention include a screensaver? I was just trying BREEZE for MS-DOS today and found that feature really appealing. I came back to my desk and the entire UI had just vanished and turned into a field of twinkling stars. I would love it if one of my more modern text editors did that.