Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

[X4]

Why is this news worth getting published for every update?

[harel]

Well, I didn't know about sublime before, and so far I'm into my first hour of usage. I've been looking for the perfect code editor for years. Always settled. Until an hour ago I was using Eclipse (with pydev), Gedit for very big files, and vim occasionally. This news item actually might get me closer to working with a single code editor. Its absolutely fantastic so far and very fast. Well done.

[jkmcf]

If anyone is like me, they try it out, decided it isn't ready for daily usage, and then forget about it. This replaces "Check for Updates" :-)

[huskyr]

Have been using Sublime for 4 months or so and really enjoying it. It strikes the perfect balance between having enough nice features and tools to make programmer happy and getting to much in your face (like many IDE's).

[michaels0620]

I like using it as a text editor but have had trouble getting it set up for Scala development. Other than getting syntax highlighting I have had trouble integrating it with an outside compiler and getting a few niceties like auto complete and highlighting errors on compile.

I'm curious, what language do you code in using Sublime and what is your set up?

[ajankovic]

I've also tried to adopt it last month but I found it very unproductive without file and folder manipulation.

[stravid]

The Vintage package (vi editing for Sublime Text 2) is now also on GitHub: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage

[joshfinnie]

I really enjoy this feature. Instead of installing 5-10 plugins to make vim look like Sublime Text, it just takes a few steps to make Sublime Text work like vim. And it's cross-platform to boot!

[drmohundro]

Nice! Anyone have any recommendations on effectively customizing key bindings with Vintage? Or customizing Vintage in general?

I've tried customizing a few keys as documented at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html but they're currently getting overwritten with every Sublime update.

[vrde]

I didn't know (until now) Sublime Text.

I don't want to seem inquisitive, but it looks a lot like VIM. I thought it was VIM, or a human-friendly version of it.

I took a look to http://www.sublimetext.com/features and many of the features listed are available on a vanilla VIM. Many, if not all, except "Asynchronous file loading, so you're never blocked when loading files off slow network drives", "WinSCP integration for editing remote files via SCP and FTP" (OK, maybe you can have the last one using sshfs).

[edited, I've removed "Commenting and uncommenting blocks of text" from the features vim does not have.]

[swah]

I don't think it feels or looks like Vim or Emacs at all, in its default configuration. It is much more on the "new Textmate" spirit.

That said, there is an emulation mode now, Vintage.

[mrud]

VIM supports editing remote files via scp and ftp. Just use {scp,ftp,http}://$host/$path to open a remote file though http support is read-only afaik.

[alanb]

I went to Sublime Text because now I can have one great text editor where everything I learn applies to my Mac (home) and Windows (work) environment.

[hackDaily]

Sublime Text 2 is a fantastic product, their updates are timely, and it's been my goto editor for months now. Thanks for the hard work guys!

[cbabraham]

Went Sublime Text 2 over the summer and haven't looked back at Text Mate since. Supposedly we are going to have Text Mate 2 by Christmas though, and then I imagine I'm going to have a tough decision to make.

[xutopia]

I take heed when so many people are fans of something but after trying it out I feel like I'm missing out on what makes this editor so awesome.

Can someone explain to me why this is better than Textmate, MacVim or UltraEdit?

[xentronium]

It's basically the same thing as textmate, only actively updated and with some extra features.

For me, the main advantage over textmate is split-screen layout.

[flyosity]

I was a long-time TextMate user. The main advantage that ST has of TM is that the Go To Anything (files, functions in a file) feature is much, much faster than TextMate's. It also shows you the contents of files as you type, so you can sneak a peek at a file, copy some text, without actually opening the file in a new tab. The full project search has a less native-looking interface than TM but it's faster, especially on huge projects.

[nobleach]

It runs on other platforms. "e" always felt like a hack to me on windows. I use Linux and it runs PERFECTLY. I was a Textmate lover and it feels great to have an editor that can use Mate's plugins and themes AND extend the possibilities.

[ableal]

For one, the mini-map feature. I believe it was fairly unique a few years ago, don't know if it still is.

[grayrest]

As a Vimmer, I'm in the slow process of transitioning. I actually write plugins for the languages I use and the API in Sublime is actually really great. The main thing holding me up from daily use is that the bugs in Vintage make me crazy and I don't want to spend the time to fix them myself. Hopefully the transition to github for the mode will get it stabilized faster.

[mruser]

I'm using Sublime Text 2 because it's obviously the new hotness in the valley.

I was at a g2g and everyone was coding in ST2. The social stigmatism of not using the new hotness is enough to get a lot of people to conform or be an obviously bad developer.

tl;dr Code editors have more mindshare than _actually getting stuff done_.

This same phenomenon is why I use a MacBook Pro (though admittedly, the MBP is peerless, unlike TEXT EDITORS).

[drivebyacct2]

A text editor is "hotness" in the valley? And that makes it worth using? Please someone assure me that "the valley" culture isn't so arrogant and full of itself that one would really be judged for not giving (frankly) two shits about Sublime Text?

(getting downvoted by Sublime Text 2 fans* it appears)

[kgen]

Does anyone know how to tweak the windowing behaviour so that it doesn't open up all your previous windows (or group the new file in the same window as your other project)? Other than the lack of usable options, it's pretty nice!

[atomi]

Try adding

  "hot_exit": false

to Preferences>Global Settings - User

[emehrkay]

For some reason on OS X Lion (Sublime v. 2136 & 2139) tabs do not show up for me unless I go to the bottom right and click Spaces: 4> Convert Tabs to spaces. Then only the current window's tab is shown.

This is smooth and runs pretty fast, but back to text mate for me, I need to see the tabs, see what I have open. Textmate has a nasty 'refresh project on focus' situation that kills working over a network (remate2 fixes that), but Sublime seems to work well over a network.

[seanb]

I'm not on Lion, but even on Snow Leopard, Sublime will only show a tab for a file if you double click the file in the sidebar, or edit the file (which Convert Tabs to Spaces is doing). Though there might be a Lion specific issue aside from this.

[bionicbrian]

Sweet! It gets better and better.

The sidebar keyboard navigation is a big one for me that's been missing. And the folding arrows will help. I don't know why you'd want them to fade but nice that it's up to you.

[hemancuso]

This update adds find and replace in files - the biggest missing feature IMHO. Refactoring without it was cumbersome.

It also adds code folding, which isn't my cup of tea but has been widely requested.

[humanfromearth]

Would've been cooler if it had integration with gocode.

[jhawk28]

It does via plugin - https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime

[jaequery]

only wish it had some emacs key bindings

[rsanders]

There are several emacs-ish keybinding and behavior packages. Install Package Control and look through the repo.

[sodiumphosphate]

Awesomest text editor ever. (It makes me happy.)

[yuioooo]

i miss tipical alt+key combinations in windows whem i'm replacing or finding text strings

[jng]

Which ones specifically?