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Meanwhile, a new Sublime Text 3 Dev build today added enhancements to its minihtml module. It looks like a race of whether Atom can become ST3 faster than ST3

Meanwhile, a new Sublime Text 3 Dev build today added enhancements to its minihtml module. It looks like a race of whether Atom can become ST3 faster than ST3 can become Atom. The main competitive advantage that Atom has over ST3, IMO, is that it's open source. If Sublime Text 3 were to become open source, that would be a huge win. Also, that open source ST3 clone limetext [1] written in Go seems to be making progress. Interesting times. [1] http://limetext.org/ http://limetext.org/

methyl 12y ago
Can you add something more about what is the minihtml module? Google says nothing.
- unfamiliar 12y ago
  I came here wondering the same thing. Based on the comments above, and what I know of the two editors, and the fact that there were some improvements to minihtml and suddenly today the sublime text changelog popped in HTML format, I would guess that minihtml is a light html renderer that can be used by plugins inside of sublime text. Atom already has this ability by design, so it can do things like draw a usage graph in a side panel, while previously sublime text could only have text-based panels produced by plugins. If I am correct, minihtml should allow plugins to display more complex user interfaces and data through the a minihtml pane.
- shurcooL 12y ago
  Grep the ST3 dev channel changelog [1] for "minihtml". [1] http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
  - budrick 12y ago
    All well and good, but that doesn't explain what it is, only that it's been worked on.
zyxley 12y ago
>It looks like a race of whether Atom can become ST3 faster than ST3 can become Atom. I'd give the advantage there to Atom, given how sparse and irregular the ST3 change logs are.
swah 12y ago
Didn't ST3's creator try to get 100k in a Kickstarter-like site to open source it, and failed? I seem to remember this.
- shurcooL 12y ago
  Do you have a link? I have not heard of this, but I'd be curious to see. If I knew about a ST3-related Kickstarter, there's a good chance I'd give it money (depending on the details).
  - swah 12y ago
    Ops, fake memory. It seems that never happened. I was probably remembering suggestions instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133108

methyl 12y ago

Can you add something more about what is the minihtml module? Google says nothing.

unfamiliar 12y ago
I came here wondering the same thing. Based on the comments above, and what I know of the two editors, and the fact that there were some improvements to minihtml and suddenly today the sublime text changelog popped in HTML format, I would guess that minihtml is a light html renderer that can be used by plugins inside of sublime text. Atom already has this ability by design, so it can do things like draw a usage graph in a side panel, while previously sublime text could only have text-based panels produced by plugins. If I am correct, minihtml should allow plugins to display more complex user interfaces and data through the a minihtml pane.
shurcooL 12y ago
Grep the ST3 dev channel changelog [1] for "minihtml". [1] http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
- budrick 12y ago
  All well and good, but that doesn't explain what it is, only that it's been worked on.

zyxley 12y ago

>It looks like a race of whether Atom can become ST3 faster than ST3 can become Atom. I'd give the advantage there to Atom, given how sparse and irregular the ST3 change logs are.

swah 12y ago

Didn't ST3's creator try to get 100k in a Kickstarter-like site to open source it, and failed? I seem to remember this.

shurcooL 12y ago
Do you have a link? I have not heard of this, but I'd be curious to see. If I knew about a ST3-related Kickstarter, there's a good chance I'd give it money (depending on the details).
- swah 12y ago
  Ops, fake memory. It seems that never happened. I was probably remembering suggestions instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133108