Multiplatform editor Sublime Text 2

[tbd]

Sublime Text 2 is a multiplatform (Win, OSX and Linux) editor with a lot of promise

• Goto Anything - quickly navigate to open/recent files and within files (e.g. ruby methods)
• user customizable via Python - wished it had Ruby
• multi pane editing - good for big monitors

I am currently working in adding SketchUp support - run code inside Sketchup from Sublime and dynamic code completion.

Costs $59 but you can evaluate for free (nag screen)

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

• Goto Anything - quickly navigate to open/recent files and within files (e.g. ruby methods)

That sounds good. I've been missing that in Notepad++. I often wished I used my Mac as main computer so I could use TextMate.

$59 for an alpha software.. hmm... will give it a go, but...

@unknownuser said:

I am currently working in adding SketchUp support - run code inside Sketchup from Sublime and dynamic code completion.

sold!!!

[Jim]

Sublime Text 2.0 is released.

It is a fine editor - well designed and implemented.

How's that code completion coming?

[tbd]

oopsy. forgot about it. hard at work with TBD v3

[Dan Rathbun]

What does Sublime's auto complete definition file(s) look like ??

[tbd]

(docs.sublimetext.info)

and an example for some HTML5 - https://github.com/allaire/HTML5-sublime-completions

[chrisglasier]

Here is a comparison with NP++.

I find the red pairing of brackets useful.

[tbd]

SublimeText version: I find underline better

[thomthom]

The red is more visually distinguishable though, especially like in Chris' example where it cross multiple lines.

[tbd]

every programmer with his 'own' taste

BracketHighlighter plugin:

[chrisglasier]

@unknownuser said:

every programmer with his 'own' taste

BracketHighlighter plugin:

That reminds me of the blobby Apricot LCD screen I struggled with in the late eighties (except that was a calmer green and black). But if you are looking for some more objective comment, I have been using NP++ and Sublime almost alternately for the last week or so.

The Sublime lefthand file navigation sidebar is far better than the chaotic NP++ recent file list in its dropdown menus.

Sublime's optional map scroller is good because you can do more informed stab as well as scroll navigation.

If a file is updated outside the editor, Sublime updates its file whereas NP++ asks whether it should do so. I prefer the latter in case I change my mind and use saveAs to restore.

I am using Sublime's Mac Classic which suits me.

[thomthom]

Anyone created auto-complete for the SketchUp API?

[Dan Rathbun]

I'd think it might be easy to write a Ruby script, that reads the NP++ XML file, and outputs a Sublime JSON file ??

[thomthom]

@dan rathbun said:

I'd think it might be easy to write a Ruby script, that reads the NP++ XML file, and outputs a Sublime JSON file ??

Was there a complete NP++ made?

[Dan Rathbun]

@thomthom said:

@dan rathbun said:

I'd think it might be easy to write a Ruby script, that reads the NP++ XML file, and outputs a Sublime JSON file ??

Was there a complete NP++ made?

Likely not.

But my point would be that both could benefit from one effort.

[chrisglasier]

Nothing to do with the last posts, but I found by using the user preferences

{
	"auto_complete"; false,
	"color_scheme"; "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/iPlastic.tmTheme",
	"dictionary"; "Packages/Language - English/en_GB.dic",
	"font_face"; "Courier new",
	"font_size"; 11.0
}

the display is much easier to read ... in fact similar to NP++

[thomthom]

@chrisglasier said:

in fact similar to NP++

Not my NP++

[chrisglasier]

Default

[Dan Rathbun]

I personally HATE the Courier New font. (It looks so ragged, .. ie unsmooth.)

I LOVE the MS Consolas font.
It was designed specifically for programming. On XP it required that some edition of MS Visual Studio has already been installed, or the font installer would not install it. It may be possible however to open the installer archive with 7zip, etc. and manually install the Consolas font files.

It looks like Windows 7 comes "out-of-the-box" with Consolas already installed.
Supposedly, Vista and MS Office 2007 also came with Consolas.

@unknownuser said:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)":2xtnoutm]This font [Consolas,] along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Constantia and Corbel, is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

This website tells how to install Consolas on MAC OSX.

@unknownuser said:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)":2xtnoutm]Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their Mac OS X text editor BBEdit.

[thomthom]

@dan rathbun said:

I personally HATE the Courier New font. (It looks so ragged, .. ie unsmooth.)

I LOVE the MS Consolas font.

Ditto. Courier was designed to simply mimic the old typewriters. Consolas was designed to be legible on computer screens.