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Why people cry about sublime not having a "release" yet. I have faced 0 bugs, seriously 0 and I'm using it for more than 3 years. Its way more performant than the rest "cool" editors and honestly...it just works! Maybe you need a little bit more configuration to make it perfect for you but thats just it.

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On Mac, one bug that bites me about once per week is the editor becomes unresponsive. Not the whole application, I can still focus on windows, use the menus, and scroll the text, but the text editor just goes vegetable. The caret disappears, and I am unable to select text, type, paste, etc. Occasionally it returns after 20-30 seconds, but usually I have to restart Sublime.

It's still a great application in spite of this bug, but it is annoying when it happens.

It has never happened to me. By the way something great about sublime text is that I can quit and open ST again in ~2 seconds max. It's that fast.

Restarting is indeed quick, but sadly sublime text windows don't re-open on the same desktop they were on when I quit. They all pop up on whatever desktop is up when I re-launch, and I have to arrange 4-5 windows again. It's not a huge deal, but it is an inconvenience.

It's a testament to the quality of the app that the gripes are so minor.

My bet is that the issue is a faulty plugin you have installed rather than ST itself, since I've had that happen to me.

What editor theme are you using? (Not "color_scheme", but "theme" in the settings.)

The only time I've ever experienced something like you're describing, it was due to some bad math in a 3rd party theme.

Have you tried disabling all plugins or reinstalling Sublime? As a daily user, I've never experienced this.

Last time I had similar issues was about 5 years ago with ST2. Are you talking about ST3?

never had this happen to me in 3 years. maybe you should clean install your OS..

Actually this dev build (well, the one released a couple of hours earlier than 3128) had a pretty major bug with gutter icons which broke text editing, scrolling etc.

Thankfully it was fixed very quickly in 3128, and my experience with ST dev and beta builds is much the same as you, that's it's been very stable in general.

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