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An absolutely joyful piece of software. I love it so much, I bought it right away. Plus, where else can you experience such a pleasant multiplatform situation

An absolutely joyful piece of software. I love it so much, I bought it right away. Plus, where else can you experience such a pleasant multiplatform situation? Great Job!

balac 14y ago
Joyful is the right word. I love that I can work across windows / linux / mac with the same awesome editor and it looks / behaves almost identically.
justauser 14y ago
Vim? Komodo?
geoffw8 14y ago
I started writing the same thing, and thought I'd just add onto this instead. Tried using Vim because I like the look of how flexible it is to tile windows, but I just cannot move away from Sublime's file search. I don't even click tabs that I have open any more, I just hit Apple + p and start typing say g-l-o for global.css and I know its there, hit enter and voila. Like you say, multi-platform too, so I get to use it on my little Ubuntu netbook and on my iMac. Love it. Really should buy a licence.
- vaneck 14y ago
  Command-T gives you similar functionality in Vim. It's great. https://github.com/wincent/Command-T https://github.com/wincent/Command-T
  - agscala 14y ago
    CtrlP is newer and is arguably much better than Command-T https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
    - xyzzyb 14y ago
      Yes, CtrlP is faster and easier to install because it's just a vimscript. It also supports all of Command-T's functionality, so it's pretty much just great.
  - UrLicht 14y ago
    I've found Command-T slows way down on large trees, causing a very noticeable interruption in my "flow" when I use it. Also, it's written in ruby which can be a bit more painful to get started with if your distro doesn't compile ruby support into vim by default.
    - notJim 14y ago
      Do you find that it slows down only the first time you use it within an editing session, or everytime you use it? If only the first time, I've got a fork which caches the files to disk, so that you don't hit that slowdown very often. The downside is that when you add new files, you have to bust that cache.
  - geoffw8 14y ago
    Hey, what agscala says below is absolutely right. I tried it, but honestly, Sublime Text 2 is far superior. Even my Vim-core colleague to my right agrees. And thats saying something! Edit: Scrap that, rush-read - CntrlP doesn't beat Sublime's Apple+P. Honestly, try it and you'll see what I mean.
jseliger 14y ago
I like it too. The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Follow-Mode.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol... . It's 2012, I'm using a 27" monitor, and yet I can't find this feature, or one like it, in anything other than emacs, which has a learning curve far too steep for my pretty simple needs. At one point, the Textmate website mentioned that a follow-mode-like feature was in the works, but 1) I can't find that mention anymore, and 2) even if it is, I'd rather not wait forever for it.
- ajross 14y ago
  Honestly I've always looked at follow mode as mostly a cute toy. It's too distracting to use while editing, and in my single-screen environment I always want a shell beside my editor anyway. Surely the proper solution to this problem in 2012 is to buy another monitor and flip it on it's side, no?
- busted 14y ago
  I'm not sure what use follow mode is but it doesn't seem to complicated, you might be able to implement a plugin that does it.
- clhodapp 14y ago
  In Vim, you can bind several windows to scroll together by doing :scrollbind in each. It's a bit more manual than what you do in Emacs, but you could use this and some :vsplit'ing to achieve a result similar to the follow mode described at your link (though I'm not sure if Vim has the learning curve you're after).
  - zmmz 14y ago
    There is also the multi page plugin: http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#MPAGE http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#MPAGE
- mbell 14y ago
  > The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol.. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol.... . I believe this plugin does what you want: https://github.com/atbell/SublimeSynchroScroll https://github.com/atbell/SublimeSynchroScroll

An absolutely joyful piece of software. I love it so much, I bought it right away. Plus, where else can you experience such a pleasant multiplatform situation? Great Job!

balac 14y ago

Joyful is the right word. I love that I can work across windows / linux / mac with the same awesome editor and it looks / behaves almost identically.

justauser 14y ago

Vim? Komodo?

geoffw8 14y ago

I started writing the same thing, and thought I'd just add onto this instead. Tried using Vim because I like the look of how flexible it is to tile windows, but I just cannot move away from Sublime's file search. I don't even click tabs that I have open any more, I just hit Apple + p and start typing say g-l-o for global.css and I know its there, hit enter and voila. Like you say, multi-platform too, so I get to use it on my little Ubuntu netbook and on my iMac. Love it. Really should buy a licence.

vaneck 14y ago
Command-T gives you similar functionality in Vim. It's great. https://github.com/wincent/Command-T https://github.com/wincent/Command-T
- agscala 14y ago
  CtrlP is newer and is arguably much better than Command-T https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
  - xyzzyb 14y ago
    Yes, CtrlP is faster and easier to install because it's just a vimscript. It also supports all of Command-T's functionality, so it's pretty much just great.
- UrLicht 14y ago
  I've found Command-T slows way down on large trees, causing a very noticeable interruption in my "flow" when I use it. Also, it's written in ruby which can be a bit more painful to get started with if your distro doesn't compile ruby support into vim by default.
  - notJim 14y ago
    Do you find that it slows down only the first time you use it within an editing session, or everytime you use it? If only the first time, I've got a fork which caches the files to disk, so that you don't hit that slowdown very often. The downside is that when you add new files, you have to bust that cache.
- geoffw8 14y ago
  Hey, what agscala says below is absolutely right. I tried it, but honestly, Sublime Text 2 is far superior. Even my Vim-core colleague to my right agrees. And thats saying something! Edit: Scrap that, rush-read - CntrlP doesn't beat Sublime's Apple+P. Honestly, try it and you'll see what I mean.

jseliger 14y ago

I like it too. The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Follow-Mode.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol... . It's 2012, I'm using a 27" monitor, and yet I can't find this feature, or one like it, in anything other than emacs, which has a learning curve far too steep for my pretty simple needs. At one point, the Textmate website mentioned that a follow-mode-like feature was in the works, but 1) I can't find that mention anymore, and 2) even if it is, I'd rather not wait forever for it.

ajross 14y ago
Honestly I've always looked at follow mode as mostly a cute toy. It's too distracting to use while editing, and in my single-screen environment I always want a shell beside my editor anyway. Surely the proper solution to this problem in 2012 is to buy another monitor and flip it on it's side, no?
busted 14y ago
I'm not sure what use follow mode is but it doesn't seem to complicated, you might be able to implement a plugin that does it.
clhodapp 14y ago
In Vim, you can bind several windows to scroll together by doing :scrollbind in each. It's a bit more manual than what you do in Emacs, but you could use this and some :vsplit'ing to achieve a result similar to the follow mode described at your link (though I'm not sure if Vim has the learning curve you're after).
- zmmz 14y ago
  There is also the multi page plugin: http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#MPAGE http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#MPAGE
mbell 14y ago
> The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol.. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol.... . I believe this plugin does what you want: https://github.com/atbell/SublimeSynchroScroll https://github.com/atbell/SublimeSynchroScroll