Comments on: Sublime Text Editor Review

By: NightShade

NightShade — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:52:51 +0000

I like so much that IDE, the only thing that netbeans for PHP had and this don’t that i use, is the Project Manager view. But it is light and usefull. congratulations for the developper for the IDEa

By: JulesLt

JulesLt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:05:05 +0000

I'm intrigued - I have 'e' at work, as I use TextMate at home, and there's obviously an advantage in learning one set of behaviours / short-cuts.

From the screenshots, this looks far nicer (less of a clone, but more something inspired by the same principles) but for me there's a concern about different behaviour/short-cuts (the cognitive difference between things that look nearly the same, but are not).

As for whether $60 is pricey - I recall people balking at the price of TextMate too. But surely the key question is how many hours of productivity does that represent??

As for Jon M - the question that needs to be asked is why hasn't the open source community produced an editor like this, or TextMate - consider that these commercial editors have emerged AFTER the existence of vim and emacs.

(I think part of the answer is that both TextMate and Sublime are the products of single developers, with a specific vision, while the nature of open source is that it suffers the same thing as Microsoft's software - design by committee).

By: ofer affias

ofer affias — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:59:57 +0000

i like it too!

http://www.virtual-clouds.com/2009/10/64/sublime-text-the-vi-modern-alternative/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:45:26 +0000

I love the trial, and have been looking for a good text editor for a while, but the $60 pricetag is a bit prohibitive for me. More than UltraEdit, and nearly twice as much as E. Definitely have my eye on it. I love the minimap.

Maybe if I get a raise

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:19:15 +0000

Of course you want things to be free. But why should anyone give you their hard work for free?

By: Jon M

Jon M — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:44:39 +0000

$60? I look forward to liberating these ideas and making them free in an open source editor. You should not charge for things, I like things to be free for me.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:04:03 +0000

Hi. Sublime also has a lot of textmate features — it reuses the same language files and colour schemes. I’ve not had much experience of E, although I did see the website and watched the short demo video, and Sublime can do everything E did in the site.

For me, one of the main strengths is the developer, Jon. He’s very quick at turning around feature requests, often within a day or two for small tweaks. There’s a nice (new) system for writing plugins, so it’s turning out to be very flexible. Plus, there’s no cygwin dependency.

Anyway, can’t hurt to give it a go…

By: Gu

Gu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:47:23 +0000

Sounds pretty good. I’m currently using E, a textmate clone. Something I start to hate about it is its Cygwin dependency. Anything E can do that Sublime can’t?

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Sublime Blog » Wiki — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:00:42 +0000

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