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Reasons to install Sublime Text 2

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> Look at your editor. Now back at mine. Now back at yours. Now back to mine. Sadly your editor is not like mine. But if you stopped using noob-scented editor, and switched to Sublime Text 2, your editor could look like mine.

I'll stick with vim, but thanks for the laugh!

<emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. It's in horseback-mode. "C-x S-( M-% sublime RET emacs RET y C-x S-)" will fix your post. </emacs partisan>

I was expecting that. :) Much respect for emacs and vim.

Btw there is this plugin for emacsifying Sublime Text 2: https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText and this one for vi integration: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

Vintage is cool but has a ways to go, unfortunately. It's missing lots of little details, like how pressing a at the end of a line should start inserting there, not on the next line down.

<another emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. Time to admit it: Sublime Text makes you look like a wimpy stupid wench who cannot stop talking about some stupid unprofessional tool that tries to spoon-feed little crybabies who concern more about, um um, look than actually getting things done. Let's face it, if you want to prove your manliness, be my guest and pull down your pants. Otherwise, I have more useful stuff to worry about than the stupid sexism. </another emacs partisan>

Ah, apologies if you find the title sexism. It's just a reference to OldSpice's commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

The first part of the article was meant as a joke if that's not clear.

The title doesn't have to do with the joke though... at least I'm not seeing it. The old spice thing is funny and is fairly obviously not sexist but the title could be a little less so.

In the end of the video there is a text saying: "Smell like a man, man" :)

No sexism intended, but I can see why people think that.

Because a woman does not want to code like a man.

People know you didn't intend to be a sexist. They are just trying to raise your awareness on this issue.

Has anyone spent significant time in both? How many milli-emacs of functionality does Sublime have?

Emacs is over 35 years old (starting from the ITS version), so it's due to be replaced. But it's also really really entrenched.

Two of my colleagues are using Sublime, but I'm still not sure if I want to switch.

I didn't know it's also on Windows and Linux - if I would switch to it, I would need this, since I'm jumping between OSX/Ubuntu/Windows very often.

But one important thing for me in Eclipse is debugging. How does Sublime fare in this department? Can I run my django project in Sublime, set up breakpoints, etc? And generally manage the project itself?

I think unfortunately that's not possible yet. There is a request for it though: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54089-support-for-xdeb...

I tried it, love it and bought it right away. Since than, I haven't look at another editor for my needs. On the plus side, I'm using it on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS and it works the way I want on all those platforms.

It simply works. Get it now.

Amen! It's as simple as that.

> it works the way I want on all those platforms lol.

This is like saying Notepad on Windows is faster than Visual Studio. Eclipse is an IDE, not an editor, hence why it isn't nearly as fast as ST2.

I use ST2 on occasion and definitely agree with the other points, though.

Yes, it's a comparison without a lot of meaning. :) It's more of a fun fact.

I tried Sublime Text 2 but ended up going back to UltraEdit. Appearance, support for regular expressions, and the ability to load large files are my three needs.

Sublime wins it on appearance. UltraEdit is nice with my dark theme, but Sublime is better. However, Sublime lost it on regular expressions. Attempting to perform a search/replace in Sublime on a 55 meg file wasn't just slow, the application crashed. UltraEdit was slower than I'd prefer ([a-zA-Z] to 0 in gVim took 15 seconds), but it doesn't crash at least.

0. It’s gorgeous

I completely disagree. I think it looks like akward, linuxy, OSS style. Textmate and VIM with a proper theme/font looks much better.

I tried playing around with various Sublime themes and fonts, but I just find its fundamentally awkward looking, and its not just a matter of tweaking it.

This might seem like a silly requirement but I'm also a designer as well as a developer. It would be something that would bother me daily.

And you are using Textmate?

I use Textmate when I'm doing design work (HTMLizing wireframes/photoshop).

I use VIM when I'm writing JS/Ruby and using terminal heavily.

Agreed, even on article's screen it looks like chrome with finder sidebar sticked to it on glue

The Soda theme[1] is one of the first things I install.

1. https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme

For some reason their download site is flagged by our security filters (Cisco) as having "previously been detected as spreading malicious software such as viruses and worms". Sigh, wish they could distribute it somewhere else besides c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com.

Such is the challenge of hosting public content. .rackcdn.com is for content hosted on Rackspace Cloud Files and served via our partnership with Akamai.

Cisco's SenderBase recently changed the rating for .rackcdn.com and Bad Things (tm) happened. We (Rackspace) have been in contact with Cisco, and our reputation with their products has been restored (see http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?se...). Unfortunately, this probably won't be fixed for you until your security filters update the policies from senderbase itself.

Let me know if you have any other issues with this. john.dickinson@rackspace.com

I hear good things about Sublime Text 2, thanks for reminding me to try it.

I'm put off by the 'code like a man' bit though. That's needlessly off-putting to female readers.

I laughed at the 10 seconds opening and closing the editor part, try zero seconds, that's more like what vim does.

I will never go back to text mate. Switched a year ago. Sublime will be actively a maintained forever.

I know this thread is dead by now, but I just have to ask whether this is some kind of brogrammer troll, or is the author seriously that uninformed about the editing landscape?

Sorry, but anybody who writes like that is not qualified to tell us what editor to use.

This is a tech forum, give us the technical reasons. If there aren't any, don't blog.

Did you read the article till the end? I'll assume you didn't. If you did, please elaborate on your statement. Thanks.

Btw what are your favorite plugins?

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