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This is quite stupid. Saying emacs is better but showing that emacs do actually the same sublime text mistake.... Emacs is extensible; ST too.

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I think you're misunderstanding it. JS2-mode is a few years old and a generic javascript mode with a built-in AST and all the goodness that comes from that.

It does not inherently understand require.js. Nor does ST. With Emacs's JS2-mode, thanks to its AST, it is possible to augment the library so that it does understand require.js -- and the author does so without resorting to piles-upon-piles of regexp hacks.

AFAIK, ST2 doesn't have a plugin for a Javascript interpreter (though I haven't used ST2 for over a year now). You could extend the javascript.sublime-language file, but that only supports regexes so you won't have the same context as with the AST.

Your main point stands though: all major editors have the ability to add plugins to achieve this same functionality.

http://ternjs.net

Tern is a stand-alone code-analysis engine for JavaScript. It is intended to be used with a code editor plugin to enhance the editor's support for intelligent JavaScript editing. Features provided are:

    *Autocompletion on variables and properties

    *Function argument hints

    *Querying the type of an expression

    *Finding the definition of something

    *Automatic refactoring

There is currently Tern support for the following editors:

    *Emacs

    *Vim

    *Sublime Text

    *Brackets (built in to the base editor)

>AFAIK, ST2 doesn't have a plugin for a Javascript interpreter

Yes, but the important thing is that it CAN have one, same as Emacs could.

For example, it has a Go plugin which uses the Go AST.

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