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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 th

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
  - dschobel 16y ago
    Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point) Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to text editors.
    - KeithMajhor 16y ago
      Except for the mouse and the graphical user interface
      - Waywocket 16y ago
        Where did you get that idea?
        KeithMajhor 16y ago
        emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better. In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
        Waywocket 16y ago
        >emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine. >and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document. Depending on what 'graphical overview' means, it's almost a certainty that vim can do something similar. The only thing I can think of where that would not be the case is if you mean something like a thumbnail view of the whole document (can't see much use for that offhand, but maybe) [edit: I had a second look to see what you meant by that, and yeah it looks like that's one thing vim can't do]. Not sure if you're aware but it also has features like tabs, arbitrarily split screen, colouring (console version is limited to 256 colours unfortunately, not sure about gui [edit: gVim supports proper 24bit colours]) and numerous other features that you might only expect in a dedicated graphical application.
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sandGorgon 16y ago
completely agree - this is wow stuff. God I wish all software on Linux looked like this.
antihero 16y ago
The fact that it's cross platform is downright sexual.

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
- dschobel 16y ago
  Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point) Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to text editors.
  - KeithMajhor 16y ago
    Except for the mouse and the graphical user interface
    - Waywocket 16y ago
      Where did you get that idea?
      - KeithMajhor 16y ago
        emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better. In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
        Waywocket 16y ago
        >emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine. >and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document. Depending on what 'graphical overview' means, it's almost a certainty that vim can do something similar. The only thing I can think of where that would not be the case is if you mean something like a thumbnail view of the whole document (can't see much use for that offhand, but maybe) [edit: I had a second look to see what you meant by that, and yeah it looks like that's one thing vim can't do]. Not sure if you're aware but it also has features like tabs, arbitrarily split screen, colouring (console version is limited to 256 colours unfortunately, not sure about gui [edit: gVim supports proper 24bit colours]) and numerous other features that you might only expect in a dedicated graphical application.

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sandGorgon 16y ago

completely agree - this is wow stuff. God I wish all software on Linux looked like this.

antihero 16y ago

The fact that it's cross platform is downright sexual.