If you're using AI to write code, IDE features don't really seem that important anymore.

Sublime is an editor I trust to leave open at all times, no matter what.

But, Helix lsp integration and shortcuts is really excellent, and much better than anything else IMO.

Objectively, Notepad++ is inferior at cross-platform support. Subjectively, I don't like that the creator of Notepad++ uses the software itself as a platform for his politics. In either case, I prefer Sublime.

Notepad++ is like if Word 98 and IrfanView had a baby, a baby who updates twice a week. No disrespect to any of them, but having a clean interface and killer performance was never their claim to fame.

If you need to ask this question, that means there is no difference for you. Just choose one and commit.

Technically correct. However, for the majority of humans, their first encounter with these features and behaviors could never be TextMate, and instead would be Sublime Text. TextMate never growing to be cross-platform is a major reason for Sublime Text's early growth.

Yup, I used TextMate a lot back in the early 2000s, and Sublime from around 2010 and bought a license maybe a year later.

To this day I always install Sublime on my new machines, it's the perfect text editor for my needs: fast and snappy, buffers are persistent so I can use as a scratch pad without having to save files, can customise with plugins if needed, the command palette gives quite a bit of power user features.

I mostly use it as a scratch pad nowadays, like if I'm debugging something, collecting a bunch of text from different places to reference quickly, nothing too advanced (nor directly related to coding) and is still one of the most satisfying programs to use on my day-to-day. It's basically always open, just waiting for a new buffer.

I use Sublime mostly these days but I still have a soft spot for TextMate. Sublime is the closest that exists to its spiritual successor, but it’s missing the “macness” that TextMate brought back in the day, which is the cost of being a cross-platform app I suppose.

Ditto

Sublime Text is not aligned with an 'any minute now' pivot to enshittification.

And whatever it does, it does better than Zed, debatably.

Flipside, sublime's memory management leaves much to be desired.

Sublime Text doesn't automatically download and run language servers without your consent. Zed does, and last I looked there's no way to turn that behavior off (the devs said it's an intentional decision to make things easier for users). I am personally of the opinion that it isn't acceptable for software to start pulling in other software without my consent, so I avoid Zed like the plague. The Gram fork of Zed is pretty good, though.

I’m using Zed, but I honestly can’t recommend it to anyone yet. They claim 1.0 but in reality it’s still beta software. It is fundamentally broken in how it deals with the file system so the project panel and git panel can easily miss changes, and it’s still not clear if they’ll even address it.

At least it seems the next release might fix the bug where the git panel will jump to a different repo when you click on a file in it. They should seriously have fixed basic stuff like that before releasing 1.0. But they got in lots of cosmetic changes to the markdown viewer.. they really need to consider their priorities

I started using Zed daily about 6 months ago after 10 years of VS Code. VS Code was having idiotic regressions (like randomly inserting a copy of the final line of a file on save) while they were busy pumping out AI features.

Turns out, Zed is also busy pumping out AI features and the code editing experience is degrading. I'm actively shopping for a replacement.

I worked in VSC for 7 years and went back to Sublime Text today! VSC became so slow and overreaching..

klogg for giant files

Not very much following the forums, but the pace they are producing things is fine. What is "basic usability thing" for you, might be something unimportant for the rest. How the team sets the priorities might be just fine for a lot of users..

Long term prospects for Sublime Text look good. The business is healthy and there is consistent work being done by a small but dedicated team.

As for why specific issues aren't addressed, it's merely a prioritization thing. It's a large task, and I'm sure if you asked 100 people they'd all give you different answers for which "basic usability" thing needs to be addressed.

Curiosity is killing my cat here. How are we supposed to know when your freshman year of college was? Was it a year ago, 8?

As far as I know ST is just a text editor (File -> Open -> Choose File)... so what would "opening a repo" even mean in that context?

My use on remote servers is usually with winscp on windows and defining sublime as the default editor. Works fine for my use.

I haven't looked much in the repo of plugins, but quickly searching 'ssh' there I found these (but not tested) that might fit your need : https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SSHubl https://packagecontrol.io/packages/OpenFileOverSSH

Not sure what you mean by "opening a repo on a remote server", but if you mean mounting a remote file system, this isn't really a sublime-specific feature. Use SSHFS (or other) and then just open the folder in Sublime and have at it.

If you mean interacting with git directly with Sublime, there's a number of plugins https://packagecontrol.io/packages/GitSavvy. But this does like any normal workflow does -- it creates a local repo and uses standard git commands to sync (push/pull).

You'd need to keep the python 3.3 plugin host disabled, but otherwise yes. OpenSSL 1.1 will be removed along with 3.3 in the next development cycle.

Emacs doesn't have "plugins", they are called "packages" for a reason. Every Emacs package is not just a plug-n-play "product", it's a recipe, you can use them as libraries, cherry-picking behaviors you want without ever executing the main features of the package.

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