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I took the same journey. I switched from Sublime Text to VSCode and stuck with VSCode for months, and depending on project du jour I've done this a couple of t
by sbuttgereit 4y ago
I took the same journey. I switched from Sublime Text to VSCode and stuck with VSCode for months, and depending on project du jour I've done this a couple of times. For me its mostly speed and a number of small, but frequently encountered, quality of life issues that keep me coming back to Sublime Text. Some of the small differences around cursor/multi-cursor management never stop irritating me in VSCode compared to ST. Also, I do a lot of PostgreSQL related stuff and I've yet to find a syntax highlighter that's 1) just syntax highlighting; and 2) able to handle things like dollar quoting well for VSCode where in Sublime Text I've had such highlighting for years.
Sure it doesn't see frequent updates... but so what? That might well be a strength since some kinds of changes can be low value & highly disorienting. The plug in eco-system isn't as broad as that for VSCode, but unsurprisingly there's more cruft there, too.
Ultimately your mileage will vary based on your preferences, but I'll stick with Sublime Text until there's something really more compelling.
- shkkmo 4y agoInteresting, it was mutlicursor bugs in SublimeText that never got fixed the drove me to finally switch to VSCode.
- ben-schaaf 4y agoST dev here, what multicursor bugs specifically?
- FredPret 4y ago> ST dev Just wanted to say thank you for a fantastic text editor. It feels like a superpower when I show it to non-tech people
- ElectronBadger 4y ago> Just wanted to say thank you for a fantastic text editor. This. ST has been my best coding tool for the last few years. A keeper. Thank you!
- shkkmo 4y agoFirst off, thanks for years of productive development with ST. I really enjoyed using your software for a long time and it carried me through a significant portion of my early career. It was a bug where selecting some text and using the key shortcut to multi select the next instance would select incorrect text for certain strings. It was a while ago so I don't remember the details, it may have been some combos of whitespace and non-alphanumeric characters. It wasn't the only reason, but it was the final impetus to try some other solutions.
- Mawr 4y agoHere's an annoying one: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/1054 https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/1054
- TehShrike 4y agoah yeah, that one has me disabling word wrapping on files where I wouldn't otherwise. Hasn't been enough motivation to leave ST though