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Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?

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So I have to learn to use your complicated editor to belong to your elite, or what exactly do you mean with this post.

Sublime Text is not frowned upon because nobody cares about the editor you use as long as your code is good. Period.

I don't think there's anything to learn to use sublime. Yeah sure Sublime is frowned upon. People are so much blinded with vim and emacs that many of them try to feel derogatory over others. You will not find this in culture unless you discuss it with your colleagues.

This means, you don't know shit.

So enlighten me. Because the post says absolutely nothing about why we all should use editors other than Sublime. Sublime is massively popular because it's good, it looks good, it's easy to use, it's simple, etc.

vimtutor exists for a reason. There's no such thing for Sublime.

> There's no such thing for Sublime.

Do you really need to "learn" what your cursor keys do and keys like pdup and pgdn?? Weird.

I think that's the point -- when a tool requires a lot of documentation and tutorials to use it, and other tools that accomplish most of the same tasks do not require them, that may be a sign that the tool that needs the tutorials is overly cumbersome.

I guess it is frowned upon in this way. After 4 years of using Vim, watching other people live coding in Sublime is like watching turtle crawl.

"C'mon faster!!"

Can be a bit frustrating actually.

I guess the reason could be that because Sublime edits are slower, as the live coder explains things, he/she needs to pause the explanation to finish editing before resuming the explanation. This interrupted flow is what actually causes the frustration.

I'd like to see a coding session with vim/emacs with an on screen keyboard map from someone skilled enough to convince me to start learning. Any pointer?

I think vimcast[1] actually does something similar to that. The actual keystrokes are displayed on the screen as he live code the screencast. Check it out.

[1]: http://vimcasts.org

thanks :)

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