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Reasons to install Sublime Text 2

39 points by 1p1e1 15y ago

remyroy 15y ago
I tried it, love it and bought it right away. Since than, I haven't look at another editor for my needs. On the plus side, I'm using it on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS and it works the way I want on all those platforms. It simply works. Get it now.
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  Amen! It's as simple as that.
- nvictor 15y ago
  > it works the way I want on all those platforms lol.
1p1e1 15y ago
Btw what are your favorite plugins?
bad_alloc 15y ago
<emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. It's in horseback-mode. "C-x S-( M-% sublime RET emacs RET y C-x S-)" will fix your post. </emacs partisan>
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  I was expecting that. :) Much respect for emacs and vim. Btw there is this plugin for emacsifying Sublime Text 2: https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText and this one for vi integration: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
  - jamesgeck0 15y ago
    Vintage is cool but has a ways to go, unfortunately. It's missing lots of little details, like how pressing a at the end of a line should start inserting there, not on the next line down.
- magice 15y ago
  <another emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. Time to admit it: Sublime Text makes you look like a wimpy stupid wench who cannot stop talking about some stupid unprofessional tool that tries to spoon-feed little crybabies who concern more about, um um, look than actually getting things done. Let's face it, if you want to prove your manliness, be my guest and pull down your pants. Otherwise, I have more useful stuff to worry about than the stupid sexism. </another emacs partisan>
  - 1p1e1 15y ago
    Ah, apologies if you find the title sexism. It's just a reference to OldSpice's commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE The first part of the article was meant as a joke if that's not clear.
    - jackolas 15y ago
      The title doesn't have to do with the joke though... at least I'm not seeing it. The old spice thing is funny and is fairly obviously not sexist but the title could be a little less so.
      - 1p1e1 15y ago
        In the end of the video there is a text saying: "Smell like a man, man" :) No sexism intended, but I can see why people think that.
        eren-tantekin 15y ago
        Because a woman does not want to code like a man. People know you didn't intend to be a sexist. They are just trying to raise your awareness on this issue.
- kbob 15y ago
  Has anyone spent significant time in both? How many milli-emacs of functionality does Sublime have? Emacs is over 35 years old (starting from the ITS version), so it's due to be replaced. But it's also really really entrenched.
harph 15y ago
Two of my colleagues are using Sublime, but I'm still not sure if I want to switch. I didn't know it's also on Windows and Linux - if I would switch to it, I would need this, since I'm jumping between OSX/Ubuntu/Windows very often. But one important thing for me in Eclipse is debugging. How does Sublime fare in this department? Can I run my django project in Sublime, set up breakpoints, etc? And generally manage the project itself?
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  I think unfortunately that's not possible yet. There is a request for it though: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54089-support-for-xdebug-breakpoints-or-a-way-to-add-support-via-plugin/ http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54089-support-for-xdeb...
JackDanger 15y ago
I hear good things about Sublime Text 2, thanks for reminding me to try it. I'm put off by the 'code like a man' bit though. That's needlessly off-putting to female readers.
joshmanders 15y ago
> Look at your editor. Now back at mine. Now back at yours. Now back to mine. Sadly your editor is not like mine. But if you stopped using noob-scented editor, and switched to Sublime Text 2, your editor could look like mine. I'll stick with vim, but thanks for the laugh!
stuff4ben 15y ago
For some reason their download site is flagged by our security filters (Cisco) as having "previously been detected as spreading malicious software such as viruses and worms". Sigh, wish they could distribute it somewhere else besides c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com.
- notmyname 15y ago
  Such is the challenge of hosting public content. .rackcdn.com is for content hosted on Rackspace Cloud Files and served via our partnership with Akamai. Cisco's SenderBase recently changed the rating for .rackcdn.com and Bad Things (tm) happened. We (Rackspace) have been in contact with Cisco, and our reputation with their products has been restored (see http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?search_string=rackcdn.com http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?se...). Unfortunately, this probably won't be fixed for you until your security filters update the policies from senderbase itself. Let me know if you have any other issues with this. john.dickinson@rackspace.com
johnernaut 15y ago
This is like saying Notepad on Windows is faster than Visual Studio. Eclipse is an IDE, not an editor, hence why it isn't nearly as fast as ST2. I use ST2 on occasion and definitely agree with the other points, though.
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  Yes, it's a comparison without a lot of meaning. :) It's more of a fun fact.
dmix 15y ago
0. It’s gorgeous I completely disagree. I think it looks like akward, linuxy, OSS style. Textmate and VIM with a proper theme/font looks much better. I tried playing around with various Sublime themes and fonts, but I just find its fundamentally awkward looking, and its not just a matter of tweaking it. This might seem like a silly requirement but I'm also a designer as well as a developer. It would be something that would bother me daily.
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  And you are using Textmate?
  - dmix 15y ago
    I use Textmate when I'm doing design work (HTMLizing wireframes/photoshop). I use VIM when I'm writing JS/Ruby and using terminal heavily.
- dmishe 15y ago
  Agreed, even on article's screen it looks like chrome with finder sidebar sticked to it on glue
- jamesgeck0 15y ago
  The Soda theme[1] is one of the first things I install. 1. https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme
tomjen3 15y ago
Sorry, but anybody who writes like that is not qualified to tell us what editor to use. This is a tech forum, give us the technical reasons. If there aren't any, don't blog.
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  Did you read the article till the end? I'll assume you didn't. If you did, please elaborate on your statement. Thanks.
lukeholder 15y ago
I will never go back to text mate. Switched a year ago. Sublime will be actively a maintained forever.
plinio_silva 15y ago
I laughed at the 10 seconds opening and closing the editor part, try zero seconds, that's more like what vim does.
somecanuck 15y ago
I tried Sublime Text 2 but ended up going back to UltraEdit. Appearance, support for regular expressions, and the ability to load large files are my three needs. Sublime wins it on appearance. UltraEdit is nice with my dark theme, but Sublime is better. However, Sublime lost it on regular expressions. Attempting to perform a search/replace in Sublime on a 55 meg file wasn't just slow, the application crashed. UltraEdit was slower than I'd prefer ([a-zA-Z] to 0 in gVim took 15 seconds), but it doesn't crash at least.
karmajunkie 15y ago
I know this thread is dead by now, but I just have to ask whether this is some kind of brogrammer troll, or is the author seriously that uninformed about the editing landscape?

39 points by 1p1e1 15y ago

I tried it, love it and bought it right away. Since than, I haven't look at another editor for my needs. On the plus side, I'm using it on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS and it works the way I want on all those platforms. It simply works. Get it now.

1p1e1 15y ago
Amen! It's as simple as that.
nvictor 15y ago
> it works the way I want on all those platforms lol.

1p1e1 15y ago

Btw what are your favorite plugins?

bad_alloc 15y ago

<emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. It's in horseback-mode. "C-x S-( M-% sublime RET emacs RET y C-x S-)" will fix your post. </emacs partisan>

1p1e1 15y ago
I was expecting that. :) Much respect for emacs and vim. Btw there is this plugin for emacsifying Sublime Text 2: https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText and this one for vi integration: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
- jamesgeck0 15y ago
  Vintage is cool but has a ways to go, unfortunately. It's missing lots of little details, like how pressing a at the end of a line should start inserting there, not on the next line down.
magice 15y ago
<another emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. Time to admit it: Sublime Text makes you look like a wimpy stupid wench who cannot stop talking about some stupid unprofessional tool that tries to spoon-feed little crybabies who concern more about, um um, look than actually getting things done. Let's face it, if you want to prove your manliness, be my guest and pull down your pants. Otherwise, I have more useful stuff to worry about than the stupid sexism. </another emacs partisan>
- 1p1e1 15y ago
  Ah, apologies if you find the title sexism. It's just a reference to OldSpice's commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE The first part of the article was meant as a joke if that's not clear.
  - jackolas 15y ago
    The title doesn't have to do with the joke though... at least I'm not seeing it. The old spice thing is funny and is fairly obviously not sexist but the title could be a little less so.
    - 1p1e1 15y ago
      In the end of the video there is a text saying: "Smell like a man, man" :) No sexism intended, but I can see why people think that.
      - eren-tantekin 15y ago
        Because a woman does not want to code like a man. People know you didn't intend to be a sexist. They are just trying to raise your awareness on this issue.
kbob 15y ago
Has anyone spent significant time in both? How many milli-emacs of functionality does Sublime have? Emacs is over 35 years old (starting from the ITS version), so it's due to be replaced. But it's also really really entrenched.

harph 15y ago

Two of my colleagues are using Sublime, but I'm still not sure if I want to switch. I didn't know it's also on Windows and Linux - if I would switch to it, I would need this, since I'm jumping between OSX/Ubuntu/Windows very often. But one important thing for me in Eclipse is debugging. How does Sublime fare in this department? Can I run my django project in Sublime, set up breakpoints, etc? And generally manage the project itself?

1p1e1 15y ago
I think unfortunately that's not possible yet. There is a request for it though: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54089-support-for-xdebug-breakpoints-or-a-way-to-add-support-via-plugin/ http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54089-support-for-xdeb...

JackDanger 15y ago

I hear good things about Sublime Text 2, thanks for reminding me to try it. I'm put off by the 'code like a man' bit though. That's needlessly off-putting to female readers.

joshmanders 15y ago

> Look at your editor. Now back at mine. Now back at yours. Now back to mine. Sadly your editor is not like mine. But if you stopped using noob-scented editor, and switched to Sublime Text 2, your editor could look like mine. I'll stick with vim, but thanks for the laugh!

stuff4ben 15y ago

For some reason their download site is flagged by our security filters (Cisco) as having "previously been detected as spreading malicious software such as viruses and worms". Sigh, wish they could distribute it somewhere else besides c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com.

notmyname 15y ago
Such is the challenge of hosting public content. .rackcdn.com is for content hosted on Rackspace Cloud Files and served via our partnership with Akamai. Cisco's SenderBase recently changed the rating for .rackcdn.com and Bad Things (tm) happened. We (Rackspace) have been in contact with Cisco, and our reputation with their products has been restored (see http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?search_string=rackcdn.com http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?se...). Unfortunately, this probably won't be fixed for you until your security filters update the policies from senderbase itself. Let me know if you have any other issues with this. john.dickinson@rackspace.com

johnernaut 15y ago

This is like saying Notepad on Windows is faster than Visual Studio. Eclipse is an IDE, not an editor, hence why it isn't nearly as fast as ST2. I use ST2 on occasion and definitely agree with the other points, though.

1p1e1 15y ago
Yes, it's a comparison without a lot of meaning. :) It's more of a fun fact.

dmix 15y ago

0. It’s gorgeous I completely disagree. I think it looks like akward, linuxy, OSS style. Textmate and VIM with a proper theme/font looks much better. I tried playing around with various Sublime themes and fonts, but I just find its fundamentally awkward looking, and its not just a matter of tweaking it. This might seem like a silly requirement but I'm also a designer as well as a developer. It would be something that would bother me daily.

1p1e1 15y ago
And you are using Textmate?
- dmix 15y ago
  I use Textmate when I'm doing design work (HTMLizing wireframes/photoshop). I use VIM when I'm writing JS/Ruby and using terminal heavily.
dmishe 15y ago
Agreed, even on article's screen it looks like chrome with finder sidebar sticked to it on glue
jamesgeck0 15y ago
The Soda theme[1] is one of the first things I install. 1. https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme

tomjen3 15y ago

Sorry, but anybody who writes like that is not qualified to tell us what editor to use. This is a tech forum, give us the technical reasons. If there aren't any, don't blog.

1p1e1 15y ago
Did you read the article till the end? I'll assume you didn't. If you did, please elaborate on your statement. Thanks.

lukeholder 15y ago

I will never go back to text mate. Switched a year ago. Sublime will be actively a maintained forever.

plinio_silva 15y ago

I laughed at the 10 seconds opening and closing the editor part, try zero seconds, that's more like what vim does.

somecanuck 15y ago

I tried Sublime Text 2 but ended up going back to UltraEdit. Appearance, support for regular expressions, and the ability to load large files are my three needs. Sublime wins it on appearance. UltraEdit is nice with my dark theme, but Sublime is better. However, Sublime lost it on regular expressions. Attempting to perform a search/replace in Sublime on a 55 meg file wasn't just slow, the application crashed. UltraEdit was slower than I'd prefer ([a-zA-Z] to 0 in gVim took 15 seconds), but it doesn't crash at least.

karmajunkie 15y ago

I know this thread is dead by now, but I just have to ask whether this is some kind of brogrammer troll, or is the author seriously that uninformed about the editing landscape?