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Anybody tried ST2 and moved back to TextMate?

schappim 14y ago
That would be me. The one feature it misses is multiple line editing by holding down option and dragging. Though the op's tips make me want to has another look. Cheers Marcus
- steverandy 14y ago
  You can do that with ST2.
  - calinet6 14y ago
    To be fair, you can't drag a box selection like you can in TM. However, Sublime's multiple-cursor support is far superior otherwise.
AngryParsley 14y ago
I gave it a shot one weekend, but went back to my highly-customized TextMate. ST2 is still rough around the edges. It doesn't show source control status in the sidebar. TextMate has the ProjectPlugin plugin which solves a lot of those problems: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus. ST2's find-in-project was also kind of annoying, at least compared to AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate https://github.com/protocool/AckMate). I realized I don't want to make the same mistake that I made when I switched to TextMate: Using a closed-source editor. One day, Sublime Text 2 will stop being developed. It's not clear if they'll ever change the license to something that allows community development. ST2 will probably end up like TextMate: consigned to the graveyard of abandoned closed-source text editors. That's one advantage of Vim and Emacs: They're never going away.
nicholassmith 14y ago
I know someone who did, said it never felt as smooth for Rails dev, but he'd spent years in it grinding code out so it's hard to retrain that muscle memory. I didn't like TM much to start with some ST2 was an easier switch.
netghost 14y ago
I'm sort of on the fence. I'm still using TextMate at work, but trying ST2 for some personal projects. It's pretty good, but there are a few things I miss, for instance TextMate packages make great use outputting HTML to a webview for things like Markdown previews, SVN/Git blame, etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be anything quite the same in ST2.

That would be me. The one feature it misses is multiple line editing by holding down option and dragging. Though the op's tips make me want to has another look. Cheers Marcus

steverandy 14y ago
You can do that with ST2.
- calinet6 14y ago
  To be fair, you can't drag a box selection like you can in TM. However, Sublime's multiple-cursor support is far superior otherwise.

AngryParsley 14y ago

I gave it a shot one weekend, but went back to my highly-customized TextMate. ST2 is still rough around the edges. It doesn't show source control status in the sidebar. TextMate has the ProjectPlugin plugin which solves a lot of those problems: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus. ST2's find-in-project was also kind of annoying, at least compared to AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate https://github.com/protocool/AckMate). I realized I don't want to make the same mistake that I made when I switched to TextMate: Using a closed-source editor. One day, Sublime Text 2 will stop being developed. It's not clear if they'll ever change the license to something that allows community development. ST2 will probably end up like TextMate: consigned to the graveyard of abandoned closed-source text editors. That's one advantage of Vim and Emacs: They're never going away.

nicholassmith 14y ago

I know someone who did, said it never felt as smooth for Rails dev, but he'd spent years in it grinding code out so it's hard to retrain that muscle memory. I didn't like TM much to start with some ST2 was an easier switch.

netghost 14y ago

I'm sort of on the fence. I'm still using TextMate at work, but trying ST2 for some personal projects. It's pretty good, but there are a few things I miss, for instance TextMate packages make great use outputting HTML to a webview for things like Markdown previews, SVN/Git blame, etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be anything quite the same in ST2.