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Everything is in text files. This is awesome if you want to move your config to a different machine (or gasp OS). Give it a try. It is not as bad as it looks o

Everything is in text files. This is awesome if you want to move your config to a different machine (or gasp OS). Give it a try. It is not as bad as it looks on first sight. You'll get used to it and probably appreciate it a bit in no time.

drivingmenuts 14y ago
I think I'd change editors before I changed to a different OS. These days, pretty much everything can be done from one machine. From where I sit, I can work with 6 different OS'es (yeah, it's a jungle) all from the comfort of OS X. I get that this is a programmer's editor and so maybe a certain amount of "roughness" in design is appropriate. But I'd rather spend my time customizing my own apps than trying to figure out how to change one setting in my editor. I can also understand if ST just isn't there yet as far as preferences go. Each OS or flavor thereof has it's own convoluted methods of writing that piece of the UI, but it's an important piece as far as OS X goes. Without it, ST will always feel like an incomplete product (in the half-baked sense, not the future development sense). Sorry, but first impressions matter. Up against BBEdit and even old Textmate, ST seems to only have one thing going for it (the visual navigator) and that's not nearly enough to make me even more than momentarily interested. This looks and feels very much like an alpha product or charitably, even a beta. But it definitely doesn't feel like something that should be a version 2 and charging $60 for the privilege of using it.
- notJim 14y ago
  You clearly have a different focus than the author of the software, and its fans. ST2's proponents are more concerned with awesome editing power than having a preferences pane. That being said, this is not the first time I've heard this line of criticism.
  - FireBeyond 14y ago
    True. Even while I love ST2, have purchased a license, and swayed my boss on the subject, it remains, if nothing else, surprising that there isn't a Preferences / Control Panel / Options style option, even as a plugin / package.
- Derbasti 14y ago
  Do what you must. But just in general, I would recommend you to try stuff. Especially if it seems foreign or strange to you but many people seem to like it. I remember when I was argueing just the way you are now. Maybe you will follow my steps. Maybe you won't. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck in your own bubble of happiness.

drivingmenuts 14y ago

I think I'd change editors before I changed to a different OS. These days, pretty much everything can be done from one machine. From where I sit, I can work with 6 different OS'es (yeah, it's a jungle) all from the comfort of OS X. I get that this is a programmer's editor and so maybe a certain amount of "roughness" in design is appropriate. But I'd rather spend my time customizing my own apps than trying to figure out how to change one setting in my editor. I can also understand if ST just isn't there yet as far as preferences go. Each OS or flavor thereof has it's own convoluted methods of writing that piece of the UI, but it's an important piece as far as OS X goes. Without it, ST will always feel like an incomplete product (in the half-baked sense, not the future development sense). Sorry, but first impressions matter. Up against BBEdit and even old Textmate, ST seems to only have one thing going for it (the visual navigator) and that's not nearly enough to make me even more than momentarily interested. This looks and feels very much like an alpha product or charitably, even a beta. But it definitely doesn't feel like something that should be a version 2 and charging $60 for the privilege of using it.

notJim 14y ago
You clearly have a different focus than the author of the software, and its fans. ST2's proponents are more concerned with awesome editing power than having a preferences pane. That being said, this is not the first time I've heard this line of criticism.
- FireBeyond 14y ago
  True. Even while I love ST2, have purchased a license, and swayed my boss on the subject, it remains, if nothing else, surprising that there isn't a Preferences / Control Panel / Options style option, even as a plugin / package.
Derbasti 14y ago
Do what you must. But just in general, I would recommend you to try stuff. Especially if it seems foreign or strange to you but many people seem to like it. I remember when I was argueing just the way you are now. Maybe you will follow my steps. Maybe you won't. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck in your own bubble of happiness.