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Honest reactions from a Sublime Text user on MacOS after using it for ~15 minutes: - Scrolling on MacOS is agonizingly slow and only scrolls by line instead of
by bschwindHN 10y ago
Honest reactions from a Sublime Text user on MacOS after using it for ~15 minutes:
- Scrolling on MacOS is agonizingly slow and only scrolls by line instead of by pixel.
- Horizontal trackpad scrolling just doesn't work. That enough is game over for me ever wanting to use this.
- The UI is very cluttered and the default color scheme has very little contrast for things like buttons. There's no sense of depth (drop shadows in particular places can make a big difference). I don't need a terminal and empty file tree open by default. For a code editor, I don't need a toolbar for Save, Open, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, etc. Developers don't use those.
- The window allows you to resize the height past the dock (assuming the OS dock is on the bottom of the screen)
- Pressing Esc doesn't dismiss the Find bar unless your cursor is actively in the text input for Find
- Pressing Cmd + F doesn't re-highlight my entire search term so I can type something new
- "Toggle Horizontal/Vertical" under View -> Split Tab just has a check mark. How do I know if it's splitting vertically or horizontally?
- Can't dynamically redraw the editors when moving a split divider back and forth
- Highlighting text is significantly less performant than ST
- Window resizing is significantly less performant than ST
- Turns out I can disable the console, file explorer, toolbar, etc. Make that the default.
- I can scroll vertically until the last line in my file is at the very top of the screen. This is more of a personal opinion but I like when vertical scrolling stops with the last line at the bottom.
- The text cursor blinks at a very slow rate, and it doesn't get reset when you click on a new line. In ST, when you click on a line it gets reset and you get immediate visual confirmation of where your cursor currently is.
- I changed the color scheme to Ebony and now I can't see my cursor at all.
- Why is every option grayed out under Plugins?
- Cmd+Shift+Left only highlights to the beginning of a word, instead of to the first non-whitespace character on the line
- Option+Shift+Left doesn't highlight by word as I was expecting, it only selects backwards one character at a time
- Syntax highlighting for common languages is missing
I'm sorry, but this is a long long way from the polish ST has. For a tool that's used every day, these small things matter quite a lot. For those saying "This is so good", I don't believe you.