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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

238 points by iamelgringo 16y ago

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mkramlich 16y ago
I love the Goto Anything features and the MiniMap. I must have those, somehow, somewhere. I'm playing around with all the Cmd-P and Cmd-R stuff in the Alpha on my Mac right now and love it. Intuitive and very useful in common use cases that come up. I think there's some overlap with what vi can already do, but this might go beyond it. I notice with the Cmd-P stuff it has a stack-like quality as you refine your query, meaning that as you refine your query and jump ahead to see the result, you can incrementally backtrack/unwind your query, to the changes live, and then ultimately you can totally pop back to the file/spot you had been looking at before you entered the Cmd-P query mode. Good stuff. MiniMap is a nice visual hack to help scroll around your code. It feels a little more like chrome than substance, but it's chrome I like, so I don't care. It also gives a birds-eye sense of where the most complex parts of your code are without having to manually look directly at every area at the 1:1 zoom level.
KevBurnsJr 16y ago
First impression: awesome. Second impression: The animations are a bit contrived. The hit state on the file browser arrows could be larger.
davej 16y ago
Is it possible to set up tab triggers for the snippets?
jasonkester 16y ago
I downloaded this and tried it out, and it's definitely pretty. I just can't come up with any situation where I'd actually use it to write code. Try pulling up a source file. Any file, any language. Type in the name of one of your objects, then a period, then hit CTRL+SPACE. What comes up? A list of strings that contain your object name, picked by matching text from the source. Really? In 2011??? Why are people still using text editors that autocomplete based on text? Why are people still getting excited about them? Editors have been background compiling and autocompleting based on context for over 10 years now. If you write code for a living, you should be using one. It will make your life easier by an order of magnitude. I think we've moved past the point where we need to treat code as if it were simply text. Unfortunately for this cool editor, it doesn't really have a place in my world today.
- swah 16y ago
  What are you using?
codex 16y ago
This project would be more interesting to me if it could complete C/C++ by using the autocompletion features of the Clang compiler.
xd 16y ago
Looks great, but any chance of a static compiled version for Linux 32/64bit? I'm getting: ./sublime_text: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Linking with ln -s /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 doesn't work: ./sublime_text: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not found (required by ./sublime_text)
- jskinner 16y ago
  Which libraries are you referring to? Statically compiling GTK would seem a step too far. EDIT: Ah, you've added that now. I'll do some investigation: could you let me (jps@sublimetext.com) know which distro you're running? (I'm the author of Sublime Text, btw)
  - xd 16y ago
    I'm running an up to date Archlinux distro. thanks for taking the time to have a look!
    - TomasSedovic 16y ago
      If you manage to get it working, would you help a fellow Arch user and submit it to AUR?
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  - est 16y ago
    Help -> About, then close Sublime 2, the About dialog still remains.
  - etcet 16y ago
    I got passed the libpng error by installing libpng12 from AUR. Now when I run ./sublime_text I get these errors: http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe It's strange because running "python PackageSetup.py" doesn't produce the same errors. My PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH are both correct. Using python 2.7.1 on arch.
va1en0k 16y ago
Sublime Text is awesome, the main reason I was being stuck with Windows for a long time. But having to use bash and not wanting to pay a lot of money made me learn Emacs. How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? My bet it isn't public information but maybe someone have similar statistics
- lylejohnson 16y ago
  > How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? I don't yet know how Sublime Text compares to TextMate, feature-wise, but TextMate seems to have sold pretty well at (roughly) this price point.
  - va1en0k 16y ago
    I always thought Mac users are more willing to pay than Windows users. Sublime for a long time was windows-only and almost free to use (a "nag" alert is not bothering at all) I don't want to say I doubt anyone will buy Sublime. I wanted to know if it allows to pay for a living or to buy a yacht ;-)
- almost 16y ago
  I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.
  - va1en0k 16y ago
    well, I pay like only 1.5x times more for my room. just to compare our costs of living
    - almost 16y ago
      I hadn't considered people living in countries with much lower costs of living/wages, my apologies for making assumptions.
fingerprinter 16y ago
I literally had never heard of this before. I just downloaded it for Ubuntu and HOT DAMN! I am buying this for sure. For anyone waiting for textmate 2, give this a look. It may very well be just what you are looking for. Best part is you can completely change all the keybindings (if you want) so you can create your VIM or Emacs setup if you so choose. Happy day....
- buro9 16y ago
  This is awesome, I too hadn't heard of it before. Killer features beyond just being so good: 1) Available for every platform (learn once, use everywhere) 2) Licensed per user (buy once, use everywhere) Loving it already and will purchase imminently. Edit: Would love it even more if I had a basic vim keymap at hand and could always grab. Looking for most of the basic navigation, editing (yank, delete, paste, etc), search/replace and stuff like that.
  - kule 16y ago
    I'd never heard of it either I use TextMate usually just having a quick look, for an Alpha, it's surprisingly polished: * Initial theme is great * Undo isn't character based * Split screen/pane * Top-right there is a cool preview of the document * Cmd-R gives you quick access to methods in the current file * Everything seems very quick & snappy and for the most part looks good especially for a cross-platform app. On the less positive side: * The fuzzy finder could be a little more relaxed (typing a few letters then a space will give you no results) * Find files in project could do with a bit of UI (and I'm not sure it does replace as well) * The project drawer looks like the sidebar in Finder rather than a proper file/directory view. Really impressed though - definitely tempted to give it a go...
    - xal 16y ago
      The fuzzy finder is very fast but it's missing a key thing from textmates fuzzy finder ( Command-T for vim is missing this as well ) that's a bias for close proximity of the character matches. shrb should match a file called shop.rb before a file called shops_controller.rb
c_allison 16y ago
I have been using Sublime Text for about a year now and it's my killer app for Windows. I've had to learn to use msysGit and plink/putty/pageant just because I had to have Sublime Text as my environment. I've already informed my boss he has to buy ST2 as soon as it's available. It is, especially with Zen Coding plugin, one of my favorite programs (design/function/utility) that I've ever installed, and I've tried a bunch of the "programmers" text editors for Windows and Linux. Thanks Jon!
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iamelgringo 16y ago
I've been using Sublime for quite some time on Win7, and I'm in love. I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side. BTW, I'm not trying to flame or argue, this is just IMHO. I've recently been doing some work with mongrel2, lua and Tir, which means that I have to develop on Linux, but I've been very crabby about using text editors that I really dislike. So, I'm really glad to have a port of sublime that works on linux. Thanks for all the hard work, and I'm really looking forward to the new changes. Keep up the great work!
- spyne-02139 16y ago
  "and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side." Elegance of the editor, how it looks? Who cares?! You can make excuses about how emacs/vim are inelegant to rationalize your laziness (I know, I was there for years before taking the plunge.) emacs/vim are always the first to get programming modes for new languages. That should tell you something. People implementing programming languages are using vim/emacs. Why use something less? These are the tools of the trade and they are free. Print out a couple cheat sheets. Put them up around your workstation, and stop whining!
- erikpukinskis 16y ago
  Literally beaten?
  - iamelgringo 16y ago
    Metaphorically. I studies graphics and animation years ago in the days of OS8 and OS9, and I believed all the hype about how much better Macs were than PC's. So, I was extremely excited when the school I was attending got a lab full of G3's and G4's. Then, I started using them for hours on end and the beating that I received was through the horrors of using hockey puck mice, and mice without a right click. The trauma of the "click of death" on zip drives. Being exhausted and sleepless and helplessly furious after a render that was going to take 22 hours crashed after 21 hrs and 30 minutes. And, finally, the horror of realizing the that the amazing innovation of being able to "write my video files to DVD" was more or less useless because burning 5 minute video file on the g4's super drive took 2 hours. After being bitterly disillusioned with apple and mac products those years, but feeling that there was something terribly terribly wrong with me because it was so obvious to everyone around me that "Macs are so much better for graphics". So, I quietly saved up a dollar here and a dollar there until I finally had enough money to put together my first PC build and I installed Win2k on it, and never looked back. After my first build, I felt so liberated by being able to upgrade my hardware when ever I felt like it, I never went back. My 20 hour renders at the computer lab took 1 hour on my new processor. I've been doing my own builds, and swapping out parts in my PC's ever since. I've tried OSX repeatedly. I've built a couple of hackintosh's. But, every single time, the trauma and the horror, and the deep deep bitterness and resentment that I have harbored in my heart against Apple has never gone a way. I loved Apple once. But after those 3 years of using exclusively Apple products, now I only have an Apple shaped scar burned deep in my soul. I don't expect other people to agree with me. I know they think that I can't code worth a crap because I'm use Windows as my OS. The disdain and contempt that people have of my favorite OS hurts, but nothing will hurt me as much as Apple has. It's an emotional thing I have. All that to say, I will never trust Apple again. :) </hahaha but, no, really>
alfet 16y ago
Wow.. I'm really impressed. Later I'll try it at home to see if it looks this good under KDE to. Although the price is a bit steep for me (given that I live in Argentina, 59$ represents ~7% of my monthly income), any chance the price is going to go down in the future?. How does this product's price compare with similar ones in the market?, maybe I'm a bit disappointed because of my low income.
giu 16y ago
I've been using Sublime Text daily for the past months, and I'm really, really happy with it. I've jumped from one text editor to another mostly within a few weeks of usage; most of the editors just didn't feel that good (e.g. cluttered UI). The last text editor I actually enjoyed working with was SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html). But then I somehow managed to find Sublime Text, gave it a try, and since then I've been using it daily and never went back. The only critic I have is directed to the missing Print function, but it's only a minor problem for me; it's not like I don't have any alternatives to accomplish this task. Summa summarum it's a very good text editor IMHO, and I'm always learning a new, convenient function by accidentally hitting CTRL + random key (e.g. CTRL + D).
swah 16y ago
This reminds me of the top post yesterday.
- swah 16y ago
  How does it compare to Kod?
  - marksteve 16y ago
    ST can beat Kod feature-wise anyday
  - flitzwald 16y ago
    Comparing anything to Kod isn't really fair at this point. It is currently at 0.0.3beta and not feature complete (I hope ;)
- antihero 16y ago
  This editor is cross platform and many of us already use it.
TheBranca18 16y ago
Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly, but the Folders option does not seem to be working for me on 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10
- jskinner 16y ago
  It should be just a matter of dragging a folder onto the side bar (or using the Project/Add Folder to Project menu item) - drop me an email (jps@sublimetext.com) if this isn't working for you.
- TheBranca18 16y ago
  Nevermind I take it back, I just had a lot of files, took a while to load. This is tremendous!! Plus you don't really need the file browser with the Go To Anything functionality.
CWIZO 16y ago
I've been using Sublime practically from when it was first released (what, 2 years now?). I do ALL of my development in it and I don't have any need to use anything else. The multiple cursor thingy and side-by-side editing are simply amazing. Especially the multiple cursor functionality, I can't say enough praise about it. Plus one awesome "feature" of that is, that anybody watching over your shoulder when you are using it has that dumb "WTF" look on his face. Priceless. Oh, and no f* icons. That's awesome too. And the built-in spell-checker, and multiple replace, and jump to symbol, and full screen mode, and mini-map, and and and ... really an amazing product (can't believe it's that cheap (and I consider 60 bucks a lot of money)). Looking forward when v2 gets stable. Thanks Jon, keep up the good work!
peregrine 16y ago
Great editor only problem is it doesn't work over remote desktop because it uses 3d accleration.
- jskinner 16y ago
  While Sublime Text 1 used the GPU for rendering, Sublime Text 2 is software only, and so should have no problems over remote desktop.
Soapy_Illusions 16y ago
I am using it on Ubuntu 10.10, looks amazing, is there any way to add syntax highlighting for other languages (Go in my case)
- CWIZO 16y ago
  v1 supports custom syntax highlighting definitions (or you could use TextMate's since it uses the same format). I'm sure v2 has this feature also.
- jskinner 16y ago
  It's generally just a matter of getting your hands on a .tmLanguage file (the same format as TextMate), and putting it somewhere in your packages directory (~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/ on Linux). The top Go.tmLanguage reported by Google appears to be a work in progress though, I'll see if I can get something sorted for the next version - I'd like to have Go support out of the box.
  - drdaeman 16y ago
    > ~/.Sublime Text 2/ It's a shame they've not heard about $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l...)
  - Soapy_Illusions 16y ago
    This one works great: https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes Maybe it should be included by default
  - sandGorgon 16y ago
    Not able to use one for Clojure (the one for Go works fine) - could you please check https://github.com/franks42/clojure.tmbundle/blob/d0b6baa89307d896b53a8f25736891e3cde2c3ab/Syntaxes/Clojure.tmLanguage https://github.com/franks42/clojure.tmbundle/blob/d0b6baa893...
jfm3 16y ago
Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it.
- drdaeman 16y ago
  I believe [Yi][] developers had a good understanding of Emacs. [Yi]: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi
findm 16y ago
Quite arguably one of the best text editors that I've used, It's my primary code/ text editor when i work on a windows machine. I just wish the OSX version was just as good. Looking forward to trying out this version.
jcstauffer 16y ago
It looks Great. Could this be emacs's missing editor?[1] [1] "Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though." --Thomer M. Gil
rdtsc 16y ago
"No libgio so found" when I ran this on a 32 bit Linux (RHEL5). Would a statically linked Linux executable work for this?
- jskinner 16y ago
  libgio is part of GTK, which I'm hesitant to statically link against. I'll test under RHEL5 and see what I can do to make it work out of the box.
  - rdtsc 16y ago
    > libgio is part of GTK It is not part of the GTK version on RHEL5 (1.2.10). This might be a difficult problem. RHEL5 is full of old packages. I wouldn't worry too much about it, a lot of government and military facilities use it but everyone else moved on. RHEL6 is out but it will be some time before it makes it through the red tape of approvals.
jsherer 16y ago
I'm running into a few miscellaneous usability issues. Hopefully this public alpha helps shed some light on them and help jskinner polish this app to beta and release. Is there a public forum or site that we can report these to (something like getsatisfaction or tender for customer support)?
- jskinner 16y ago
  There isn't a public issue tracker yet, no. The best place at the moment for reporting issues is the forum: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum http://www.sublimetext.com/forum
- sandGorgon 16y ago
  Especially language support (clojure) for example.
  - T-R 16y ago
    Sublime Text supports TextMate language files. I've added COBOL syntax highlighting for a friend by just pulling apart someone's tmbundle, the same could probably be done with clojure. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=clojure+tm+language#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:github.com+clojure+tmbundle&sa=X&ei=wkhDTeW8GIT2swPIluihCg&ved=0CAIQqAQwBA&fp=fca90e9507624f80 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... Edit: I hadn't seen your posts below saying that this wasn't working for Clojure
cmer 16y ago
I stopped reading when I saw that CMD+P does "Goto Anything" instead of print. Please use standard keyboard shortcuts... Too bad because it looked awesome!
- charlief 16y ago
  Please feel free to click in Preferences -> User Key bindings and make any overrides you need to make.
  - cmer 16y ago
    Ok thanks! Nonetheless, I think it should ship with standard defaults...
- jskinner 16y ago
  As much as possible, I do try and follow the conventions of the host OS. Cmd+P is the only exception, which I feel I can get away with due to there being no support for printing yet (and a few other historical reasons, where Ctrl+P is used for similar functionality in Sublime Text 1).
  - cmer 16y ago
    Thank you for your answer. I'll look into your software, it seems pretty awesome! You should however consider being more strict about host OS standards in my opinion. It would just makes our life a little bit easier.
- FR6 16y ago
  Do you really print your code? "Too bad because it looked awesome!" You will not use it because of the CMD+P problem!?
  - cmer 16y ago
    You missed the point. The fact that CMD-P doesn't do what it's supposed to do was a big warning to me. One of the best things on a Mac is that every application uses standard keyboard shortcuts. For example, CMD-, always opens preferences. I believe that anybody who doesn't follow these conventions is doing it wrong. If the application doesn't print, CMD+P shouldn't do anything in my opinion.
rokhayakebe 16y ago
Beginner programmer here. I could not use any other editor. Does anyone know if you can collapse functions or blocks of code?
- T-R 16y ago
  There was a thread about this on the ST forums a while back - I can't seem to find it now. If I recall, block collapsing was a low/non-prority because it was viewed as lending itself to poor code, and mostly compensated for by other features. My personal opinion - it'd be nice, but I don't miss it enough to switch editors or bug the author - maybe someone will make a plugin for it. I haven't missed it at all in Python or Haskell. Last time I worked on a Java project, I missed it a bit at first, but mostly found that the minimap got rid of that feeling of looking at code through tunnel vision that made me want to collapse it, and by the end of the project I'd shifted to using ST more than Eclipse. I might feel differently if I jumped back in to C#, with #region and all, but I really feel like the C language family lends itself more to IDEs anyway.
smharris65 16y ago
This looks nice and I will give it a try. But when will coding editors set the tab key to "spaces" by default? It's not just this editor but Eclipse and others.
thedeuce 16y ago
not that i don't appreciate good software, but 60$ for an editor seems a bit steep...especially with all the great alternatives out there. Lower the upfront cost and I'd be more likely to buy and pay for future 3.0 update. Thanks!
wildmXranat 16y ago
Type this: import os. Pressing ctrl+space produced no hint or auto-complete. Does anybody know why ? Another thing I have tried: executing ./sublime_text /mycode/ doesn't import/open that directory within ST, it just opens up blank. I'm pointing these out to ask for solutions, not to nit pick.
- jskinner 16y ago
  Auto complete only looks in the current buffer for possible completions at the moment. I'll look into what's going on with the command line handling under Linux.
  - antihero 16y ago
    Autocomplete is awesome. Two ideas: * Option for it to come up automatically instead of with a key combo. * Taking colours from the active colour scheme. Keep up the good work!
  - BSousa 16y ago
    What are the plans for auto complete? Maybe native ctags support? That would make me change to Sublime 100%!!!
charlief 16y ago
Does Default Key Mappings have every possible command? If not, is there a complete list available somewhere?
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- jskinner 16y ago
  It has most, but not all. Some commands are in the menu, but have no key binding: you can find these via "Preferences/Browse Packages", and then open up "Default/Main.sublime-menu".
rufugee 16y ago
I like it...it's crashed on me a few times (64-bit) but other than that it's nifty. The best part is the minimap (high level view of source on right hand side). Is anyone aware of a plugin for vim that does this sort of thing?
- ableal 16y ago
  Check the Nov.2007 blog post comments ( http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/anatomy-of-a-next-generation-text-editor http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/anatomy-of-a-next-g..., comment by 'drewp' ) for a tool that may help.
Maciek416 16y ago
I'd really like to move to an IDE that understands js code as well as Netbeans does but without the sluggish performance of the editor. I like Sublime Text so far, but I really miss the ability to see out-of-scope variables and catch minor errors. Anyone know how to accomplish this in Sublime Text ?
- pilif 16y ago
  Take a look at IntelliJ IDEA's little brother WebStorm. Their JavaScript insight is fantastic and it runs quickly at least on my machines.
swah 16y ago
WJW, this is very cool. A few comments: - When you select a file in a project, first it shows some kind of preview and only if you start typing it gets its own tab. Why is that ? Perhaps just keep it simple and always show a tab. - Can I change the font? - Creating a new project could be a little be easier to understand (perhaps add "New project from folder") - The black UI looks great with dark themes, but a gray version would be great for light ones. - The minimap was a little bit greater on ST1, overlaying it like this turns it into a distraction (unless it would fade away automatically and fade in activated by "hot corners", or something like that). - Any chance you would think of VC integration, or that isn't a good thing to have in the editor for you? - Why is this so fast? Can you teach us how to make great looking apps that work on all platforms? :) Really snappy, "modes" load instantly, great out of the box experience. Congratulations!
- jskinner 16y ago
  The preview-on-single click makes a bit more sense if you have the tabs turned off: it exists so the set of open files doesn't get cluttered when browsing a project. I'm planning on making it optional (and likely off by default), as many people aren't a fan of the behavior. You can change the font, but it involves editing the preference files: Have a browse through "Preferences/Default File Preferences", and then copy the relevant keys into "Preferences/User File Preferences" - font_face and font_size in this case.
- nborgo 16y ago
  To change the font, go to Preferences > User File Preferences and paste this in there: "font_face": "Monaco", "font_size": 13
charlief 16y ago
Nice plugin API. There might be enough here to write a vim modality/navigation extension without too much pain. Community page of existing plugins for Sublime Text 1. Hopefully these get ported to 2: http://sublime-text-community-packages.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ http://sublime-text-community-packages.googlecode.com/svn/tr... http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-basics http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-basics http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples (EDIT: API is for Sublime Text 1 only)
- jskinner 16y ago
  Those are for Sublime Text 1, rather than 2, by the way. The API for Sublime Text 2 is very similar, but different enough that plugins won't work without being changed. Documentation for Sublime Text 2 is extremely thin on the ground at the moment, it's something I'll try to address soon.
  - look_lookatme 16y ago
    Really looking forward to this.
yalforreca 16y ago
Fast and slick. I like it. Does it support two dimensional copy & paste? ( this is usually done with pressing the left alt key on other editors ).
- jskinner 16y ago
  Column select is triggered by Ctrl+Left Mouse on OS X - Alt+Left Mouse will subtract from the selection.
  - yalforreca 16y ago
    Ah! So it's called column select. Oops! I am trying Alt+Left Mouse in Windows XP but it doesn't seem to work. Is it different under Windows?
    - jskinner 16y ago
      On Windows and Linux you can use Shift+Right Mouse, or Middle Mouse. Column selection interacts nicely with multiple selections, too: Use Ctrl+Drag (Command+Drag on OSX) to add selections, and Alt+Drag to subtract selections.
      - yalforreca 16y ago
        Multiple selections are very cool. I think you have done a great job with this editor. A final question: what is the recommended way to move between recently visited files? For instance in Visual Studio there is a file history stack that makes it very easy to visit previous files with Alt + W + n where n represents the distance in the visitation history. I keep doing Alt + W + 2 to alternate back and forth between two files. Is there a way to this in Sublime? I am thinking about buying it to use under OSX. The XCode editor is not my favourite to put it lightly. Keep up great work!
        jskinner 16y ago
        Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycle forwards/backwards through the stack of recently used files, in the same manner as Alt-Tab (Command+Tab on OS X) cycles through applications.
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jskinner 16y ago
As the author of Sublime Text, I'd just like to say thanks for all the kind comments here, it's heartwarming to see so many positive comments.
- swah 16y ago
  Lots of folks on Quora these days too, you should/could create a topic for Sublime Text there too.
- agazso 16y ago
  Hi, very cool editor, currently I'm thinking about making it my default editor instead of TextMate. However there are few issues: * The default theme looks too dark (at least on OSX). It's hard to see which tab is active atm. Simple gray would be better (like in Chrome). * Cannot change between tabs with Cmd-number. * If the file is long and minimap is bigger than the height of the screen, clicking on it does not take you to the clicked position, but somewhere else. * Too much animation, imho. * Seriously needs a better icon, at least on OSX. It's too simplistic and looks like the frame that you can move when Cmd-tabbing through the programs. Hope that helps, and keep up the good work!
  - tjstankus 16y ago
    It looks like the 20110129 update adds Cmd-number functionality for switching between tabs on OS X.
- kingkilr 16y ago
  Just playing with it it feels great, one pony request: make it easier to just open a folder. When just trying out an editor I don't care to setup projects and whatnot, I just want the codebrowser to be rooted at some project dir on my system.
  - pistoriusp 16y ago
    One feature that I really like in textmate is the "mate" binary they provide in Terminal. Before you launch your development server you can just type "mate ." and it'll open everything up for you.
damoncali 16y ago
Very nice. One thing that I always find myself wanting when exploring new editors is a way to import my Textmate theme. It's tough to evaluate the editor when the colors are all wrong, and I don't want to spend the time to set them up just right only to find out I don't like the editor. I think a feature like that could help increase adoption.
- jskinner 16y ago
  .tmTheme files are supported by Sublime Text: Copy your .tmTheme into ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User (assuming you're on OS X), restart Sublime Text, and you should be able to select it from the Preferences menu.
otaku888 16y ago
Best editor ever. I have tried literally every single one over the years. Considering it's made by a single developer development speed is breathtaking and he is always open to suggestions on the Forums. I was a little wary of the new version after using ST1 for so long, but have finally switched and project management is now a breeze where it used to be a little clunky. Go to anything also rocks. A++++
- jussij 16y ago
  > I have tried literally every single one over the years. You have obviously never tried the Zeus editor.
mati 16y ago
$ ./sublime_text Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Aborted $ python --version Python 2.6.6 Is that my python version? Could the error message be more verbose, or is it not coming from sublime? How do I go about fixing that? Wanted to give sublime a try...
- jskinner 16y ago
  Should be fixed now: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-version http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-...
- jskinner 16y ago
  There are currently some issues on non-ubuntu linux distros. I hope to get this resolved in the next few days.
efields 16y ago
As a front-end jockey, one feature of TextMate that I wound up using a lot in CSS is the native OS X color picker. Anyone know if this can be implemented with the current plugin architecture? I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but if I was nudged w/ the reinforcement that its possible, I'd take a crack at it.
antihero 16y ago
I've used Sublime for a couple of years now, still evaluating (I will buy it, just not while I'm a student) it and saying "no" to the dialogue every other save or so. Heh. Anyway, I made a theme that's a mod of Twilight but in my opinion far more readable and pretty. https://gist.github.com/800531 https://gist.github.com/800531 Give it a try!
jotto 16y ago
Any thoughts on what this is written in? How is it cross platform?
- ashleyw 16y ago
  It's written in Python I believe.
- Khroma 16y ago
  It's not Python. I ran otool -L on the binary, and on my Mac, it looks like an ObjC++ program.
sashthebash 16y ago
Does this have some form of git support?
zenocon 16y ago
Quick question: Are there plans to develop auto-complete for 'X' language, and if not, is it possible to build your own auto-complete feature for 'X' language using the plugin API? When learning a new language, and especially when learning a new library, I dearly miss auto-complete (e.g. what you get in Eclipse with Java). I'm learning Haskell, and this would be a fantastic way to get more familiar with not only the standard Prelude, but any of the other Haskell libraries.
pasbesoin 16y ago
I'm taking a first look, and I certainly like the appearance. The older I (and my eyes) get, the more I appreciate sufficient contrast WITHOUT a lot of brightness. One small nit for consideration. I realize it may increase conversions, but I absolutely hate it when an application unexpectedly fires up the browser (and surfs off to an unstated destination). (In Sublime's case, via Help / About.) Some years ago, TextPad got my money through the same model: Unlimited trial. The unlimited trial wasn't enough to "obligate" me, but its excellent performance and feature set won me over. (In particular, I made heavy, ad hoc use of its regular expression support against relatively ginormous, irregularly structured text files -- and file sets -- at the time; something no competitor seemed to match.) (Unfortunately, TextPad's update to version 5 -- including moving to a newer Microsoft framework -- mostly just made things worse, and development simultaneously seemed to be tapering off.)
- pasbesoin 16y ago
  BTW I tried the 1.4 version as, initially, at least, I didn't want to tackle an alpha version. I'm pleased to note that line wrapping carries forward the indent level. That's something else TextPad had/has that many of its competitors do not. I find this makes presentations containing wrapped lines much more legible. EDIT: It would be nice, however, to have an option to restrict the current line highlight to the current display line, for times when the user is working with long form text (e.g. paragraphs).
yumraj 16y ago
Love it. It's awesome. One feedback: make opening Projects easier. I had closed the editor window and the Project menu only showed "Recent Project". It wasn't intuitive to me that I need to have a text window open before the other menu items are visible. Make those menu items available by default and if no window is open, just open one.
zephjc 16y ago
UI bug report: Scrollbar behavior is weird. The thumbnail scroller is very cool and stops when the end of the file is visible at the bottom of the view. However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior. Also, I hope you plan to use form controls for saving preferences instead of json-style dicts. And the Command-P issue. Otherwise, awesome editor.
- conesus 16y ago
  > However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior. Good news! You can easily turn off this behavior by editing your preferences. Just add this to Preferences > User File Preferences: { "scroll_past_end" : false }
kylemathews 16y ago
I'm getting a segmentation fault on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10. Anyone know what's going on? Edit: Removing the ~/.Sublime Text 2 folder fixed things. The segmentation fault only started after I restarted my laptop.
vsiva68 16y ago
This is a beautiful piece of work. Any chance you might be able to explain the background architecture that might allow others to replicate some of this? From what I see: - extensions are coded in Python, and there is good documentation on the plugin mechanism. - Each platform seems to use the platform's native window system. There is no use of a common UI like Qt. - The first version is GPU accelerated but the newer one is entirely software. Seriously impressive work considering it is a single developer. I like how there animations are subtle, and how the entire UI is incredibly responsive. To me, this does to text editors what Chrome did to web browsers.
whouweling 16y ago
Shame I didn't know of this editor earlier, although I've been hunting for a perfect editor for quite some time. (Settled on VIM + boatload of plugins, but its far from elegant) I love the clean non distracting interface, ctrl-p is also a killer feature with the "@" extension. Only thing I'm missing so far is the VIM autocomplete from all open buffers feature, saves me lots of typos.
Tycho 16y ago
breathes sigh of release deletes whole bunch of other editors from hard disk Seriously, I can't believe this wasn't recommended to me before now.
fuzzythinker 16y ago
I was going to ask how to get vi bindings, but after looking through the features, it seems I would kill most of their hard work and thoughts doing so. The getting started guide[1] is very helpful. To see if a feature is implemented in this alpha, do: Preferences | Default key bindings, search for the command, eg. "ctrl+shift+k" mentioned in support is not found in alpha. Just one of the most beautifully designed piece of software I've seen. [1] http://sublime.akalias.net/gettingstarted/ http://sublime.akalias.net/gettingstarted/
kellishaver 16y ago
I realize this is still in alpha and I expect bugs (though it looks incredibly polished), but is anyone else having problems changing the font/font size in the Linux 64bit version? I have changed it in the config file and restarted the program, but it seems to have no effect. I'm just wondering if this doesn't yet work or if I'm doing it wrong. I'd love to use this, but I need to be able to see it first. :/
- jskinner 16y ago
  Make sure you're changing it in the User File Preferences, rather than the Default File Preferences. The default preferences get overridden by the platform specific ones.
  - kellishaver 16y ago
    Ah, thanks.

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I love the Goto Anything features and the MiniMap. I must have those, somehow, somewhere. I'm playing around with all the Cmd-P and Cmd-R stuff in the Alpha on my Mac right now and love it. Intuitive and very useful in common use cases that come up. I think there's some overlap with what vi can already do, but this might go beyond it. I notice with the Cmd-P stuff it has a stack-like quality as you refine your query, meaning that as you refine your query and jump ahead to see the result, you can incrementally backtrack/unwind your query, to the changes live, and then ultimately you can totally pop back to the file/spot you had been looking at before you entered the Cmd-P query mode. Good stuff. MiniMap is a nice visual hack to help scroll around your code. It feels a little more like chrome than substance, but it's chrome I like, so I don't care. It also gives a birds-eye sense of where the most complex parts of your code are without having to manually look directly at every area at the 1:1 zoom level.

KevBurnsJr 16y ago

First impression: awesome. Second impression: The animations are a bit contrived. The hit state on the file browser arrows could be larger.

davej 16y ago

Is it possible to set up tab triggers for the snippets?

jasonkester 16y ago

I downloaded this and tried it out, and it's definitely pretty. I just can't come up with any situation where I'd actually use it to write code. Try pulling up a source file. Any file, any language. Type in the name of one of your objects, then a period, then hit CTRL+SPACE. What comes up? A list of strings that contain your object name, picked by matching text from the source. Really? In 2011??? Why are people still using text editors that autocomplete based on text? Why are people still getting excited about them? Editors have been background compiling and autocompleting based on context for over 10 years now. If you write code for a living, you should be using one. It will make your life easier by an order of magnitude. I think we've moved past the point where we need to treat code as if it were simply text. Unfortunately for this cool editor, it doesn't really have a place in my world today.

swah 16y ago
What are you using?

codex 16y ago

This project would be more interesting to me if it could complete C/C++ by using the autocompletion features of the Clang compiler.

xd 16y ago

Looks great, but any chance of a static compiled version for Linux 32/64bit? I'm getting: ./sublime_text: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Linking with ln -s /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 doesn't work: ./sublime_text: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not found (required by ./sublime_text)

jskinner 16y ago
Which libraries are you referring to? Statically compiling GTK would seem a step too far. EDIT: Ah, you've added that now. I'll do some investigation: could you let me (jps@sublimetext.com) know which distro you're running? (I'm the author of Sublime Text, btw)
- xd 16y ago
  I'm running an up to date Archlinux distro. thanks for taking the time to have a look!
  - TomasSedovic 16y ago
    If you manage to get it working, would you help a fellow Arch user and submit it to AUR?
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- est 16y ago
  Help -> About, then close Sublime 2, the About dialog still remains.
- etcet 16y ago
  I got passed the libpng error by installing libpng12 from AUR. Now when I run ./sublime_text I get these errors: http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe It's strange because running "python PackageSetup.py" doesn't produce the same errors. My PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH are both correct. Using python 2.7.1 on arch.

va1en0k 16y ago

Sublime Text is awesome, the main reason I was being stuck with Windows for a long time. But having to use bash and not wanting to pay a lot of money made me learn Emacs. How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? My bet it isn't public information but maybe someone have similar statistics

lylejohnson 16y ago
> How many people are willing to pay 59$ for a pretty simple (yet awesome, but not in the sophisticated feature-rich Java-world way) editor? I don't yet know how Sublime Text compares to TextMate, feature-wise, but TextMate seems to have sold pretty well at (roughly) this price point.
- va1en0k 16y ago
  I always thought Mac users are more willing to pay than Windows users. Sublime for a long time was windows-only and almost free to use (a "nag" alert is not bothering at all) I don't want to say I doubt anyone will buy Sublime. I wanted to know if it allows to pay for a living or to buy a yacht ;-)
almost 16y ago
I don't understand why a programmer who is prepared to switch editors (a really big thing!) would in anyway be swayed one way or the other by $60.
- va1en0k 16y ago
  well, I pay like only 1.5x times more for my room. just to compare our costs of living
  - almost 16y ago
    I hadn't considered people living in countries with much lower costs of living/wages, my apologies for making assumptions.

fingerprinter 16y ago

I literally had never heard of this before. I just downloaded it for Ubuntu and HOT DAMN! I am buying this for sure. For anyone waiting for textmate 2, give this a look. It may very well be just what you are looking for. Best part is you can completely change all the keybindings (if you want) so you can create your VIM or Emacs setup if you so choose. Happy day....

buro9 16y ago
This is awesome, I too hadn't heard of it before. Killer features beyond just being so good: 1) Available for every platform (learn once, use everywhere) 2) Licensed per user (buy once, use everywhere) Loving it already and will purchase imminently. Edit: Would love it even more if I had a basic vim keymap at hand and could always grab. Looking for most of the basic navigation, editing (yank, delete, paste, etc), search/replace and stuff like that.
- kule 16y ago
  I'd never heard of it either I use TextMate usually just having a quick look, for an Alpha, it's surprisingly polished: * Initial theme is great * Undo isn't character based * Split screen/pane * Top-right there is a cool preview of the document * Cmd-R gives you quick access to methods in the current file * Everything seems very quick & snappy and for the most part looks good especially for a cross-platform app. On the less positive side: * The fuzzy finder could be a little more relaxed (typing a few letters then a space will give you no results) * Find files in project could do with a bit of UI (and I'm not sure it does replace as well) * The project drawer looks like the sidebar in Finder rather than a proper file/directory view. Really impressed though - definitely tempted to give it a go...
  - xal 16y ago
    The fuzzy finder is very fast but it's missing a key thing from textmates fuzzy finder ( Command-T for vim is missing this as well ) that's a bias for close proximity of the character matches. shrb should match a file called shop.rb before a file called shops_controller.rb

c_allison 16y ago

I have been using Sublime Text for about a year now and it's my killer app for Windows. I've had to learn to use msysGit and plink/putty/pageant just because I had to have Sublime Text as my environment. I've already informed my boss he has to buy ST2 as soon as it's available. It is, especially with Zen Coding plugin, one of my favorite programs (design/function/utility) that I've ever installed, and I've tried a bunch of the "programmers" text editors for Windows and Linux. Thanks Jon!

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iamelgringo 16y ago

I've been using Sublime for quite some time on Win7, and I'm in love. I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side. BTW, I'm not trying to flame or argue, this is just IMHO. I've recently been doing some work with mongrel2, lua and Tir, which means that I have to develop on Linux, but I've been very crabby about using text editors that I really dislike. So, I'm really glad to have a port of sublime that works on linux. Thanks for all the hard work, and I'm really looking forward to the new changes. Keep up the great work!

spyne-02139 16y ago
"and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side." Elegance of the editor, how it looks? Who cares?! You can make excuses about how emacs/vim are inelegant to rationalize your laziness (I know, I was there for years before taking the plunge.) emacs/vim are always the first to get programming modes for new languages. That should tell you something. People implementing programming languages are using vim/emacs. Why use something less? These are the tools of the trade and they are free. Print out a couple cheat sheets. Put them up around your workstation, and stop whining!
erikpukinskis 16y ago
Literally beaten?
- iamelgringo 16y ago
  Metaphorically. I studies graphics and animation years ago in the days of OS8 and OS9, and I believed all the hype about how much better Macs were than PC's. So, I was extremely excited when the school I was attending got a lab full of G3's and G4's. Then, I started using them for hours on end and the beating that I received was through the horrors of using hockey puck mice, and mice without a right click. The trauma of the "click of death" on zip drives. Being exhausted and sleepless and helplessly furious after a render that was going to take 22 hours crashed after 21 hrs and 30 minutes. And, finally, the horror of realizing the that the amazing innovation of being able to "write my video files to DVD" was more or less useless because burning 5 minute video file on the g4's super drive took 2 hours. After being bitterly disillusioned with apple and mac products those years, but feeling that there was something terribly terribly wrong with me because it was so obvious to everyone around me that "Macs are so much better for graphics". So, I quietly saved up a dollar here and a dollar there until I finally had enough money to put together my first PC build and I installed Win2k on it, and never looked back. After my first build, I felt so liberated by being able to upgrade my hardware when ever I felt like it, I never went back. My 20 hour renders at the computer lab took 1 hour on my new processor. I've been doing my own builds, and swapping out parts in my PC's ever since. I've tried OSX repeatedly. I've built a couple of hackintosh's. But, every single time, the trauma and the horror, and the deep deep bitterness and resentment that I have harbored in my heart against Apple has never gone a way. I loved Apple once. But after those 3 years of using exclusively Apple products, now I only have an Apple shaped scar burned deep in my soul. I don't expect other people to agree with me. I know they think that I can't code worth a crap because I'm use Windows as my OS. The disdain and contempt that people have of my favorite OS hurts, but nothing will hurt me as much as Apple has. It's an emotional thing I have. All that to say, I will never trust Apple again. :) </hahaha but, no, really>

alfet 16y ago

Wow.. I'm really impressed. Later I'll try it at home to see if it looks this good under KDE to. Although the price is a bit steep for me (given that I live in Argentina, 59$ represents ~7% of my monthly income), any chance the price is going to go down in the future?. How does this product's price compare with similar ones in the market?, maybe I'm a bit disappointed because of my low income.

giu 16y ago

I've been using Sublime Text daily for the past months, and I'm really, really happy with it. I've jumped from one text editor to another mostly within a few weeks of usage; most of the editors just didn't feel that good (e.g. cluttered UI). The last text editor I actually enjoyed working with was SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html). But then I somehow managed to find Sublime Text, gave it a try, and since then I've been using it daily and never went back. The only critic I have is directed to the missing Print function, but it's only a minor problem for me; it's not like I don't have any alternatives to accomplish this task. Summa summarum it's a very good text editor IMHO, and I'm always learning a new, convenient function by accidentally hitting CTRL + random key (e.g. CTRL + D).

swah 16y ago

This reminds me of the top post yesterday.

swah 16y ago
How does it compare to Kod?
- marksteve 16y ago
  ST can beat Kod feature-wise anyday
- flitzwald 16y ago
  Comparing anything to Kod isn't really fair at this point. It is currently at 0.0.3beta and not feature complete (I hope ;)
antihero 16y ago
This editor is cross platform and many of us already use it.

TheBranca18 16y ago

Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly, but the Folders option does not seem to be working for me on 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10

jskinner 16y ago
It should be just a matter of dragging a folder onto the side bar (or using the Project/Add Folder to Project menu item) - drop me an email (jps@sublimetext.com) if this isn't working for you.
TheBranca18 16y ago
Nevermind I take it back, I just had a lot of files, took a while to load. This is tremendous!! Plus you don't really need the file browser with the Go To Anything functionality.

CWIZO 16y ago

I've been using Sublime practically from when it was first released (what, 2 years now?). I do ALL of my development in it and I don't have any need to use anything else. The multiple cursor thingy and side-by-side editing are simply amazing. Especially the multiple cursor functionality, I can't say enough praise about it. Plus one awesome "feature" of that is, that anybody watching over your shoulder when you are using it has that dumb "WTF" look on his face. Priceless. Oh, and no f* icons. That's awesome too. And the built-in spell-checker, and multiple replace, and jump to symbol, and full screen mode, and mini-map, and and and ... really an amazing product (can't believe it's that cheap (and I consider 60 bucks a lot of money)). Looking forward when v2 gets stable. Thanks Jon, keep up the good work!

peregrine 16y ago

Great editor only problem is it doesn't work over remote desktop because it uses 3d accleration.

jskinner 16y ago
While Sublime Text 1 used the GPU for rendering, Sublime Text 2 is software only, and so should have no problems over remote desktop.

Soapy_Illusions 16y ago

I am using it on Ubuntu 10.10, looks amazing, is there any way to add syntax highlighting for other languages (Go in my case)

CWIZO 16y ago
v1 supports custom syntax highlighting definitions (or you could use TextMate's since it uses the same format). I'm sure v2 has this feature also.
jskinner 16y ago
It's generally just a matter of getting your hands on a .tmLanguage file (the same format as TextMate), and putting it somewhere in your packages directory (~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/ on Linux). The top Go.tmLanguage reported by Google appears to be a work in progress though, I'll see if I can get something sorted for the next version - I'd like to have Go support out of the box.
- drdaeman 16y ago
  > ~/.Sublime Text 2/ It's a shame they've not heard about $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l...)
- Soapy_Illusions 16y ago
  This one works great: https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes Maybe it should be included by default
- sandGorgon 16y ago
  Not able to use one for Clojure (the one for Go works fine) - could you please check https://github.com/franks42/clojure.tmbundle/blob/d0b6baa89307d896b53a8f25736891e3cde2c3ab/Syntaxes/Clojure.tmLanguage https://github.com/franks42/clojure.tmbundle/blob/d0b6baa893...

jfm3 16y ago

Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it.

drdaeman 16y ago
I believe [Yi][] developers had a good understanding of Emacs. [Yi]: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi

findm 16y ago

Quite arguably one of the best text editors that I've used, It's my primary code/ text editor when i work on a windows machine. I just wish the OSX version was just as good. Looking forward to trying out this version.

jcstauffer 16y ago

It looks Great. Could this be emacs's missing editor?[1] [1] "Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though." --Thomer M. Gil

rdtsc 16y ago

"No libgio so found" when I ran this on a 32 bit Linux (RHEL5). Would a statically linked Linux executable work for this?

jskinner 16y ago
libgio is part of GTK, which I'm hesitant to statically link against. I'll test under RHEL5 and see what I can do to make it work out of the box.
- rdtsc 16y ago
  > libgio is part of GTK It is not part of the GTK version on RHEL5 (1.2.10). This might be a difficult problem. RHEL5 is full of old packages. I wouldn't worry too much about it, a lot of government and military facilities use it but everyone else moved on. RHEL6 is out but it will be some time before it makes it through the red tape of approvals.

jsherer 16y ago

I'm running into a few miscellaneous usability issues. Hopefully this public alpha helps shed some light on them and help jskinner polish this app to beta and release. Is there a public forum or site that we can report these to (something like getsatisfaction or tender for customer support)?

jskinner 16y ago
There isn't a public issue tracker yet, no. The best place at the moment for reporting issues is the forum: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum http://www.sublimetext.com/forum
sandGorgon 16y ago
Especially language support (clojure) for example.
- T-R 16y ago
  Sublime Text supports TextMate language files. I've added COBOL syntax highlighting for a friend by just pulling apart someone's tmbundle, the same could probably be done with clojure. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=clojure+tm+language#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:github.com+clojure+tmbundle&sa=X&ei=wkhDTeW8GIT2swPIluihCg&ved=0CAIQqAQwBA&fp=fca90e9507624f80 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... Edit: I hadn't seen your posts below saying that this wasn't working for Clojure

cmer 16y ago

I stopped reading when I saw that CMD+P does "Goto Anything" instead of print. Please use standard keyboard shortcuts... Too bad because it looked awesome!

charlief 16y ago
Please feel free to click in Preferences -> User Key bindings and make any overrides you need to make.
- cmer 16y ago
  Ok thanks! Nonetheless, I think it should ship with standard defaults...
jskinner 16y ago
As much as possible, I do try and follow the conventions of the host OS. Cmd+P is the only exception, which I feel I can get away with due to there being no support for printing yet (and a few other historical reasons, where Ctrl+P is used for similar functionality in Sublime Text 1).
- cmer 16y ago
  Thank you for your answer. I'll look into your software, it seems pretty awesome! You should however consider being more strict about host OS standards in my opinion. It would just makes our life a little bit easier.
FR6 16y ago
Do you really print your code? "Too bad because it looked awesome!" You will not use it because of the CMD+P problem!?
- cmer 16y ago
  You missed the point. The fact that CMD-P doesn't do what it's supposed to do was a big warning to me. One of the best things on a Mac is that every application uses standard keyboard shortcuts. For example, CMD-, always opens preferences. I believe that anybody who doesn't follow these conventions is doing it wrong. If the application doesn't print, CMD+P shouldn't do anything in my opinion.

rokhayakebe 16y ago

Beginner programmer here. I could not use any other editor. Does anyone know if you can collapse functions or blocks of code?

T-R 16y ago
There was a thread about this on the ST forums a while back - I can't seem to find it now. If I recall, block collapsing was a low/non-prority because it was viewed as lending itself to poor code, and mostly compensated for by other features. My personal opinion - it'd be nice, but I don't miss it enough to switch editors or bug the author - maybe someone will make a plugin for it. I haven't missed it at all in Python or Haskell. Last time I worked on a Java project, I missed it a bit at first, but mostly found that the minimap got rid of that feeling of looking at code through tunnel vision that made me want to collapse it, and by the end of the project I'd shifted to using ST more than Eclipse. I might feel differently if I jumped back in to C#, with #region and all, but I really feel like the C language family lends itself more to IDEs anyway.

smharris65 16y ago

This looks nice and I will give it a try. But when will coding editors set the tab key to "spaces" by default? It's not just this editor but Eclipse and others.

thedeuce 16y ago

not that i don't appreciate good software, but 60$ for an editor seems a bit steep...especially with all the great alternatives out there. Lower the upfront cost and I'd be more likely to buy and pay for future 3.0 update. Thanks!

wildmXranat 16y ago

Type this: import os. Pressing ctrl+space produced no hint or auto-complete. Does anybody know why ? Another thing I have tried: executing ./sublime_text /mycode/ doesn't import/open that directory within ST, it just opens up blank. I'm pointing these out to ask for solutions, not to nit pick.

jskinner 16y ago
Auto complete only looks in the current buffer for possible completions at the moment. I'll look into what's going on with the command line handling under Linux.
- antihero 16y ago
  Autocomplete is awesome. Two ideas: * Option for it to come up automatically instead of with a key combo. * Taking colours from the active colour scheme. Keep up the good work!
- BSousa 16y ago
  What are the plans for auto complete? Maybe native ctags support? That would make me change to Sublime 100%!!!

charlief 16y ago

Does Default Key Mappings have every possible command? If not, is there a complete list available somewhere?

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jskinner 16y ago
It has most, but not all. Some commands are in the menu, but have no key binding: you can find these via "Preferences/Browse Packages", and then open up "Default/Main.sublime-menu".

rufugee 16y ago

I like it...it's crashed on me a few times (64-bit) but other than that it's nifty. The best part is the minimap (high level view of source on right hand side). Is anyone aware of a plugin for vim that does this sort of thing?

ableal 16y ago
Check the Nov.2007 blog post comments ( http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/anatomy-of-a-next-generation-text-editor http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/anatomy-of-a-next-g..., comment by 'drewp' ) for a tool that may help.

Maciek416 16y ago

I'd really like to move to an IDE that understands js code as well as Netbeans does but without the sluggish performance of the editor. I like Sublime Text so far, but I really miss the ability to see out-of-scope variables and catch minor errors. Anyone know how to accomplish this in Sublime Text ?

pilif 16y ago
Take a look at IntelliJ IDEA's little brother WebStorm. Their JavaScript insight is fantastic and it runs quickly at least on my machines.

swah 16y ago

WJW, this is very cool. A few comments: - When you select a file in a project, first it shows some kind of preview and only if you start typing it gets its own tab. Why is that ? Perhaps just keep it simple and always show a tab. - Can I change the font? - Creating a new project could be a little be easier to understand (perhaps add "New project from folder") - The black UI looks great with dark themes, but a gray version would be great for light ones. - The minimap was a little bit greater on ST1, overlaying it like this turns it into a distraction (unless it would fade away automatically and fade in activated by "hot corners", or something like that). - Any chance you would think of VC integration, or that isn't a good thing to have in the editor for you? - Why is this so fast? Can you teach us how to make great looking apps that work on all platforms? :) Really snappy, "modes" load instantly, great out of the box experience. Congratulations!

jskinner 16y ago
The preview-on-single click makes a bit more sense if you have the tabs turned off: it exists so the set of open files doesn't get cluttered when browsing a project. I'm planning on making it optional (and likely off by default), as many people aren't a fan of the behavior. You can change the font, but it involves editing the preference files: Have a browse through "Preferences/Default File Preferences", and then copy the relevant keys into "Preferences/User File Preferences" - font_face and font_size in this case.
nborgo 16y ago
To change the font, go to Preferences > User File Preferences and paste this in there: "font_face": "Monaco", "font_size": 13

charlief 16y ago

Nice plugin API. There might be enough here to write a vim modality/navigation extension without too much pain. Community page of existing plugins for Sublime Text 1. Hopefully these get ported to 2: http://sublime-text-community-packages.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ http://sublime-text-community-packages.googlecode.com/svn/tr... http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-basics http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-basics http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples (EDIT: API is for Sublime Text 1 only)

jskinner 16y ago
Those are for Sublime Text 1, rather than 2, by the way. The API for Sublime Text 2 is very similar, but different enough that plugins won't work without being changed. Documentation for Sublime Text 2 is extremely thin on the ground at the moment, it's something I'll try to address soon.
- look_lookatme 16y ago
  Really looking forward to this.

yalforreca 16y ago

Fast and slick. I like it. Does it support two dimensional copy & paste? ( this is usually done with pressing the left alt key on other editors ).

jskinner 16y ago
Column select is triggered by Ctrl+Left Mouse on OS X - Alt+Left Mouse will subtract from the selection.
- yalforreca 16y ago
  Ah! So it's called column select. Oops! I am trying Alt+Left Mouse in Windows XP but it doesn't seem to work. Is it different under Windows?
  - jskinner 16y ago
    On Windows and Linux you can use Shift+Right Mouse, or Middle Mouse. Column selection interacts nicely with multiple selections, too: Use Ctrl+Drag (Command+Drag on OSX) to add selections, and Alt+Drag to subtract selections.
    - yalforreca 16y ago
      Multiple selections are very cool. I think you have done a great job with this editor. A final question: what is the recommended way to move between recently visited files? For instance in Visual Studio there is a file history stack that makes it very easy to visit previous files with Alt + W + n where n represents the distance in the visitation history. I keep doing Alt + W + 2 to alternate back and forth between two files. Is there a way to this in Sublime? I am thinking about buying it to use under OSX. The XCode editor is not my favourite to put it lightly. Keep up great work!
      - jskinner 16y ago
        Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycle forwards/backwards through the stack of recently used files, in the same manner as Alt-Tab (Command+Tab on OS X) cycles through applications.

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jskinner 16y ago

As the author of Sublime Text, I'd just like to say thanks for all the kind comments here, it's heartwarming to see so many positive comments.

swah 16y ago
Lots of folks on Quora these days too, you should/could create a topic for Sublime Text there too.
agazso 16y ago
Hi, very cool editor, currently I'm thinking about making it my default editor instead of TextMate. However there are few issues: * The default theme looks too dark (at least on OSX). It's hard to see which tab is active atm. Simple gray would be better (like in Chrome). * Cannot change between tabs with Cmd-number. * If the file is long and minimap is bigger than the height of the screen, clicking on it does not take you to the clicked position, but somewhere else. * Too much animation, imho. * Seriously needs a better icon, at least on OSX. It's too simplistic and looks like the frame that you can move when Cmd-tabbing through the programs. Hope that helps, and keep up the good work!
- tjstankus 16y ago
  It looks like the 20110129 update adds Cmd-number functionality for switching between tabs on OS X.
kingkilr 16y ago
Just playing with it it feels great, one pony request: make it easier to just open a folder. When just trying out an editor I don't care to setup projects and whatnot, I just want the codebrowser to be rooted at some project dir on my system.
- pistoriusp 16y ago
  One feature that I really like in textmate is the "mate" binary they provide in Terminal. Before you launch your development server you can just type "mate ." and it'll open everything up for you.

damoncali 16y ago

Very nice. One thing that I always find myself wanting when exploring new editors is a way to import my Textmate theme. It's tough to evaluate the editor when the colors are all wrong, and I don't want to spend the time to set them up just right only to find out I don't like the editor. I think a feature like that could help increase adoption.

jskinner 16y ago
.tmTheme files are supported by Sublime Text: Copy your .tmTheme into ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User (assuming you're on OS X), restart Sublime Text, and you should be able to select it from the Preferences menu.

otaku888 16y ago

Best editor ever. I have tried literally every single one over the years. Considering it's made by a single developer development speed is breathtaking and he is always open to suggestions on the Forums. I was a little wary of the new version after using ST1 for so long, but have finally switched and project management is now a breeze where it used to be a little clunky. Go to anything also rocks. A++++

jussij 16y ago
> I have tried literally every single one over the years. You have obviously never tried the Zeus editor.

mati 16y ago

$ ./sublime_text Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Aborted $ python --version Python 2.6.6 Is that my python version? Could the error message be more verbose, or is it not coming from sublime? How do I go about fixing that? Wanted to give sublime a try...

jskinner 16y ago
Should be fixed now: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-version http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-...
jskinner 16y ago
There are currently some issues on non-ubuntu linux distros. I hope to get this resolved in the next few days.

efields 16y ago

As a front-end jockey, one feature of TextMate that I wound up using a lot in CSS is the native OS X color picker. Anyone know if this can be implemented with the current plugin architecture? I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but if I was nudged w/ the reinforcement that its possible, I'd take a crack at it.

antihero 16y ago

I've used Sublime for a couple of years now, still evaluating (I will buy it, just not while I'm a student) it and saying "no" to the dialogue every other save or so. Heh. Anyway, I made a theme that's a mod of Twilight but in my opinion far more readable and pretty. https://gist.github.com/800531 https://gist.github.com/800531 Give it a try!

jotto 16y ago

Any thoughts on what this is written in? How is it cross platform?

ashleyw 16y ago
It's written in Python I believe.
Khroma 16y ago
It's not Python. I ran otool -L on the binary, and on my Mac, it looks like an ObjC++ program.

sashthebash 16y ago

Does this have some form of git support?

zenocon 16y ago

Quick question: Are there plans to develop auto-complete for 'X' language, and if not, is it possible to build your own auto-complete feature for 'X' language using the plugin API? When learning a new language, and especially when learning a new library, I dearly miss auto-complete (e.g. what you get in Eclipse with Java). I'm learning Haskell, and this would be a fantastic way to get more familiar with not only the standard Prelude, but any of the other Haskell libraries.

pasbesoin 16y ago

I'm taking a first look, and I certainly like the appearance. The older I (and my eyes) get, the more I appreciate sufficient contrast WITHOUT a lot of brightness. One small nit for consideration. I realize it may increase conversions, but I absolutely hate it when an application unexpectedly fires up the browser (and surfs off to an unstated destination). (In Sublime's case, via Help / About.) Some years ago, TextPad got my money through the same model: Unlimited trial. The unlimited trial wasn't enough to "obligate" me, but its excellent performance and feature set won me over. (In particular, I made heavy, ad hoc use of its regular expression support against relatively ginormous, irregularly structured text files -- and file sets -- at the time; something no competitor seemed to match.) (Unfortunately, TextPad's update to version 5 -- including moving to a newer Microsoft framework -- mostly just made things worse, and development simultaneously seemed to be tapering off.)

pasbesoin 16y ago
BTW I tried the 1.4 version as, initially, at least, I didn't want to tackle an alpha version. I'm pleased to note that line wrapping carries forward the indent level. That's something else TextPad had/has that many of its competitors do not. I find this makes presentations containing wrapped lines much more legible. EDIT: It would be nice, however, to have an option to restrict the current line highlight to the current display line, for times when the user is working with long form text (e.g. paragraphs).

yumraj 16y ago

Love it. It's awesome. One feedback: make opening Projects easier. I had closed the editor window and the Project menu only showed "Recent Project". It wasn't intuitive to me that I need to have a text window open before the other menu items are visible. Make those menu items available by default and if no window is open, just open one.

zephjc 16y ago

UI bug report: Scrollbar behavior is weird. The thumbnail scroller is very cool and stops when the end of the file is visible at the bottom of the view. However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior. Also, I hope you plan to use form controls for saving preferences instead of json-style dicts. And the Command-P issue. Otherwise, awesome editor.

conesus 16y ago
> However, the scrollbar itself scrolls until the end of the file is visible at the top of the view. At least in OSX, this is not standard text editor behavior. Good news! You can easily turn off this behavior by editing your preferences. Just add this to Preferences > User File Preferences: { "scroll_past_end" : false }

kylemathews 16y ago

I'm getting a segmentation fault on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10. Anyone know what's going on? Edit: Removing the ~/.Sublime Text 2 folder fixed things. The segmentation fault only started after I restarted my laptop.

vsiva68 16y ago

This is a beautiful piece of work. Any chance you might be able to explain the background architecture that might allow others to replicate some of this? From what I see: - extensions are coded in Python, and there is good documentation on the plugin mechanism. - Each platform seems to use the platform's native window system. There is no use of a common UI like Qt. - The first version is GPU accelerated but the newer one is entirely software. Seriously impressive work considering it is a single developer. I like how there animations are subtle, and how the entire UI is incredibly responsive. To me, this does to text editors what Chrome did to web browsers.

whouweling 16y ago

Shame I didn't know of this editor earlier, although I've been hunting for a perfect editor for quite some time. (Settled on VIM + boatload of plugins, but its far from elegant) I love the clean non distracting interface, ctrl-p is also a killer feature with the "@" extension. Only thing I'm missing so far is the VIM autocomplete from all open buffers feature, saves me lots of typos.

Tycho 16y ago

breathes sigh of release deletes whole bunch of other editors from hard disk Seriously, I can't believe this wasn't recommended to me before now.

fuzzythinker 16y ago

I was going to ask how to get vi bindings, but after looking through the features, it seems I would kill most of their hard work and thoughts doing so. The getting started guide[1] is very helpful. To see if a feature is implemented in this alpha, do: Preferences | Default key bindings, search for the command, eg. "ctrl+shift+k" mentioned in support is not found in alpha. Just one of the most beautifully designed piece of software I've seen. [1] http://sublime.akalias.net/gettingstarted/ http://sublime.akalias.net/gettingstarted/

kellishaver 16y ago

I realize this is still in alpha and I expect bugs (though it looks incredibly polished), but is anyone else having problems changing the font/font size in the Linux 64bit version? I have changed it in the config file and restarted the program, but it seems to have no effect. I'm just wondering if this doesn't yet work or if I'm doing it wrong. I'd love to use this, but I need to be able to see it first. :/

jskinner 16y ago
Make sure you're changing it in the User File Preferences, rather than the Default File Preferences. The default preferences get overridden by the platform specific ones.
- kellishaver 16y ago
  Ah, thanks.