Sublime Package Control – a Sublime Text 2 Package Manager | Hacker News Reader

Sublime Package Control – a Sublime Text 2 Package Manager

wbond.net

39 pointsshawndumas8 comments

If this could become the centralized way to handle packages for Sublime Text like npm has become for Node I think it would be a big step forwards towards Sublime Text replacing TextMate.

Maybe I've just not kept up to date with what goes on with TextMate but to my knowledge there is nothing like this for TextMate and looking for packages for TextMate always becomes a googling quest for me.

Now of course, with TextMate, there's hundreds of packages doing more or less the same thing to different authors tastes, if the same thing happens with Sublime Text, there would need to be some sort of filtering in this package manager?

For package management in TextMate I use GetBundles (not to be confused with GetBundle). It looks for bundles in not only the official TextMate bundle directory but also on GitHub, and it allows searching in the list. However, it only handles bundles - not color themes or plugins.

http://www.google.com/search?q=GetBundles+TextMate

This package manager has almost single handedly converted me to a Sublime Text 2 user. The simplicity of adding packages is a huge convenience of having to track down and install TextMate bundles or plugins for any other editor.

Huge win for Sublime.

Anyone have suggestions for helpful packages? I'm currently using Sublimelinter ( https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeLinter ), but that's it, would love to know about more.

Has anything changed since the last time this was discussed on HN?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887974

I'm surprised Sublime Text 2 doesn't have its own official plugin repository. Glad to see the community is filling in the gaps.

There have been some updates, including support for utilizing git and hg to update packages that were cloned. This is pretty useful when hacking on a package or customizing it. There are also a bunch more packages in the default channel.

Does Textmate users never learn? - "Yay let's use another proprietary editor as our most important tool" :-/

I don't care. And neither should any other programmer. If ST2 is going to be abandonware a few years down the line like Textmate is right now, that doesn't matter at all to me. $60 for a piece of software that I spend 1500+ hours a year working from is a steal. If it gives me a 5% performance boost, I'll gladly take the afternoon and convert to it, whether it's open source or proprietary.

I currently use vim & MacVim for all my programming needs, because I'm at my peak of programming performance while using them. With the very quick turn-around on ST2's builds, and tons of features coming out every month, I'm strongly reconsidering a switch. Knowing vim is still invaluable knowledge for general sysops, but like I said, I'd gladly give it up in daily usage for something better.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com