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Ask HN: How many people pay for Sublime Text 3?

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I've been curious, for a long time now, how successful a really popular app like Sublime Text 3 can be as nagware.

It's an interesting question and I've wondered the same thing. winRAR is a piece of nagware that works great but has a reputation of people not ever buying it. I've seen phrases like "what?! you've actually bought winRAR" many times online. On the other hand, Sublime Text seems to have the opposite with lots of people proudly exclaiming they've purchased it. Without knowing actual numbers it's impossible to tell but there is some culture at play here.

The type of software probably plays a role as well. Sublime text is heavily used throughout the day but I can go weeks without needing winRAR.

I've bought it, and bought a licence for ST2 a couple of years ago as well. I use it every day and feel kind of morally obliged to support the developers. I even spend money on Photoshop and Spotify every month.

If by 'pay for it', you mean 'close the purchase popup subconsciously without even noticing it', then yes, I pay for it.

I paid for it, but am not using Sublime Text any longer. I now use phpStorm and Webstorm (paid for both, well worth the workflow/efficiency improvements) and Atom for one-off file edits. Just swap 'sudo subl /etc/hosts' with 'sudo atom /etc/hosts' and you're all good! ;]

I was using PHPStorm but stopped using as it adds a big data folder(idea) into the application folder along with several xml files which was messing up my GitHub push. I read some documentation but was not able to figure it out. Any idea how to avoid it? Thank you.

You should create a ~/.gitconfig file that specifies an excludes file for all of your git projects that keeps editor generated files/directories out of your repo. (http://365git.tumblr.com/post/519016351/three-ways-of-exclud...)

Thanks for the information. It was helpful.

No problem!

Just add ".idea/*" to .gitignore in your main directory.

Do I have to create this .gitignore file for each project directory?

I've paid for it, but have since switched almost entirely to Emacs(evil mode), Vim and IntelliJ. LightTable intrigued me for a while, but I'd say I'm more interested in the source code (as it's a sizeable ClojureScript application) than using it for active development.

I have ST3 installed, but only as a secondary editor (primary is UltraEdit Studio). WinRAR was brought up and I do own a license for it. Granted, I purchased it about 6+ years ago, but still valid to this day.

I pay for it , best purchase i've made.

I paid for it and use it every day.

Paid for it, learned vim, now it's gathering dust on my SSD.

How did you go about learning vim, and how long till it you became more productive with it?

Spend a few minutes each day writing some code in vim. Force yourself to use its macros and try and find new macros to use.

nope trialing it at the moment to replace notepad++ under windows, but I find the price hard to justify.

I do.

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