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by buserror 2761 days ago
I have a bought licence of subethaedit, from years and years ago. I still use it, but I never upgraded since I had to re-buy a licence to do so!

Glad I waited. I still love the coloured changes for modified text in a document (that stay on after saving!), it's really really handy when working on a longish file to have quick visual clues when scrolling back/forth. I wish more editors had that.
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woodrowbarlow 2761 days ago
yes, VS does this by default too and it's nice.

lots of editors have plugins (like git-gutter for sublime) that do this with VCS integration: highlight lines that were modified since last commit. for me, this is even better because it remains not just after saving the file but even after closing the file/editor and re-opening it.

combined with a minimap like sublime's which also shows the gutter annotations, i can navigate a many-thousand-line file with lightning speed.

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