[SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

ohnonot · 2015-10-31 23:40:02

classical nagware, but rather mild, considering the wonderfully coded tool you get.

MsMattie · 2015-11-02 17:38:47

Sublime is great. In the Preferences there is a "Color Scheme" where you can quickly change the text and screen colors to one of about a dozen different looks, from white screen to dark screen and all kinds of text colors for different kinds of code. Really nice when moving about between a dark room to a sunny window when doing work...

hhh · 2015-11-02 17:47:56

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

@hhh -- isn't it a licensed product?
From the website:
Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.
http://www.sublimetext.com/2

I guess it is, then.

I didn't investigate too closely. I used Notepad when I was on XP and I originally used Mousepad on Linux and now Leafpad. Simple FTW.

I understand coders want syntax highlighting and other features, though. Is there nothing comparable to Sublime that's open source?

Temetka · 2015-11-02 17:50:13

Emacs?

mrneilypops · 2015-11-02 19:16:37

atom

I found it a bit 'bloated' and slow but worth a look

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-02 19:17:49

vim ,vim ,vim!

*jumps up & down rabidly*

EDIT: Sorry, that post was not becoming of my mod status

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-11-02 19:18:18)

damo · 2015-11-02 22:57:38

MsMattie wrote:

Sublime is great. In the Preferences there is a "Color Scheme" where you can quickly change the text and screen colors to one of about a dozen different looks, from white screen to dark screen and all kinds of text colors for different kinds of code. Really nice when moving about between a dark room to a sunny window when doing work...

To be fair, you can also do that with geany (I've also tweaked my own geany theme). But at first glance, sublime looks worth trying some more....

tknomanzr · 2015-11-02 23:36:57

I have always just used geany. It is well-behaved and doesn't mess up my formatting, which is essential with python and web stuff. I used to use stuff like dreamweaver to do web code but figured out that it always does its own thing with formatting, which sucks when you are trying to figure out which div is a container and which is the content and your code editor just mangled the whole thing up into a big heap.

MsMattie · 2015-11-03 01:07:08

damo wrote:

To be fair, you can also do that with geany (I've also tweaked my own geany theme). But at first glance, sublime looks worth trying some more....

Sublime does not require "tweaking" to get a new theme. There are already about a dozen set up and you can chose a different one with one click. If it is in Geany like that, I haven't found it. I think there are also a lot of other Sublime themes that can be downloaded beyond those included by default.

I actually use both Geany and Sublime because if I have two different things going on at once, having two text editors that look totally different makes it easier for me to keep straight which one I am working on at the moment.

ohnonot · 2015-11-03 06:49:16

MsMattie wrote:

damo wrote:
To be fair, you can also do that with geany (I've also tweaked my own geany theme).
Sublime does not require "tweaking" to get a new theme. There are already about a dozen set up and you can chose a different one with one click. If it is in Geany like that, I haven't found it.

View => Choose Colortheme...
it's there.

and damo meant "i've also created my own geany theme by modifying an existing one".

the difference to sublime is, iirc, that it changes the whole UI, not just the editor.
it has the advantage you described, but also means that it doesn't optically integrate into one's setup so well.

but if i was doing coding for money i'd probably already have shelled out the 70$.
or switched to vim.

Temetka · 2015-11-03 07:47:44

tknomanzr wrote:

I have always just used geany. It is well-behaved and doesn't mess up my formatting, which is essential with python and web stuff. I used to use stuff like dreamweaver to do web code but figured out that it always does its own thing with formatting, which sucks when you are trying to figure out which div is a container and which is the content and your code editor just mangled the whole thing up into a big heap.

Look at this scrot:

I am not a python coder. I do mess around with HTML and whatnot and can hack my way though a few other languages (mainly scripting languages). But supporting these different project types OOB reminds me of BBedit on the Mac, which was pure win.

#21 2015-10-31 23:40:02

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#22 2015-11-02 17:38:47

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#23 2015-11-02 17:47:56

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#24 2015-11-02 17:50:13

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#25 2015-11-02 19:16:37

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#26 2015-11-02 19:17:49

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#27 2015-11-02 22:57:38

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#28 2015-11-02 23:36:57

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#29 2015-11-03 01:07:08

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#30 2015-11-03 06:49:16

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

#31 2015-11-03 07:47:44

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing Sublime Text

Board footer