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"It’s too bad Sublime Text isn’t open source." Bad bad bad, if you are investing time in mastering a tool which could disappear tomorrow, or take a direction
by lelele 14y ago
"It’s too bad Sublime Text isn’t open source."
Bad bad bad, if you are investing time in mastering a tool which could disappear tomorrow, or take a direction you don't like. This is one of the strongest reasons I chose GNU Emacs as my editor. I remember how burned I was when Visual Studio moved from VBScript to .NET as its macro language. All the time I had invested in learning its macro system and in writing macros went down the drain. Never again.
"Its plugin API doesn’t allow setting tabstops manually, which I would like so I could write a plugin implementing true elastic tabstops."
Elastic tabstops are awesome. This is a feature I do miss in Emacs.
- SCdF 14y agoTo be completely fair, it's not like they are going to remotely delete it or anything, the current version which I like functions, and has no glaring bugs, and will continue to function. And if I did use emacs, and somehow it changed in a way that I hated, I really doubt I'd have the time to fix it. Work isn't going to pay me to sit around and write my own text editor.
- lelele 14y agoI see your point. One day I'm going to write a guide to choosing your editor, or your trusty tools, for that matter. There are further advantages in choosing an open-source established editor. It all boils down to a trade-off. As long as you don't invest too much time into learning a tool, you don't mind losing your investment. Recently I have switched to Opera as my default browser. I couldn't stand Firefox anymore, Chrome didn't suit me. Opera is proprietary and closed-source, but then I'm not going to dig too much into its internals. Have a sweet day.