[heelix]

There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight code editor. The experience on Linux, OSX, and Windows is the same. The ability to do vertical column selection and insertion makes it crazy easy to make quick and dirty scripts with copy/paste data from other sources.

[baskethead]

Yep, me too. I bought ST2, got the free upgrade to ST3, and recently paid for ST4. I install it across my Windows and Mac computers and it’s still great. It’s my go to text editor for years now.

[PascLeRasc]

Throwing this out here since you mentioned it - does anyone else get tons of hangups and temporary frozen windows using Sublime with unsaved files? I’ve always had this on a bunch of different Macs and some Linux machines. I don’t like working around by saving either, sometimes I just want a scratchpad.

[ben-schaaf]

You should check and see how large your session file is, perhaps you have some multi-GB files open that ST tries to persist continuously. Though with ST4 we did introduce async (session) saving, so it's surprising to still see it happening - perhaps a bug report would sort things out.

[guitarbill]

Never on version 3, unless some plugin is running wild or misbehaving (e.g. Anaconda). I also use it mostly as a scratch pad, with several unsaved files. (Haven't been brave enough to update to v4 because they're all still unsaved -.-)

[e-rok]

The UI still hangs up when anything (including a project) is loaded from a slow sshfs mount. For this case I found optimizing the sshfs mount settings mostly fixed this. Now only rarely, sshfs decides it doesn't like something about itself and takes down Sublime with it.

[otachack]

That's interesting! I'll have to try it out as most my interactions with ST revolve around saving files.

[captn3m0]

Haven't faced this in a while, and thought this was mostly around indexing.

[wodenokoto]

> The experience on Linux, OSX, and Windows is the same

You and I have very different definitions of “same”.

If the keyboard shortcuts where just “use ctr instead of command” I’d probably agree with you, but the shortcuts are changed dramatically between the 3 systems.

For example, replace uses F on Mac, but H on windows.

[pjmlp]

Same here, even if I seldom use it. Otherwise all these nice editors will just die, and their authors also have bills to pay.

[kwanbix]

UltraEdit is very much what you describe. But the column mode is much better IMHO.

[nsonha]

Yeah I remember back when I was testing this which was about 7 years ago, UltraEdit performed the best on large files

[IshKebab]

Except for handling extremely large files, VSCode does all of that.

[iRobbery]

Or projects with a ton of files. I had such issues on ST3 i tried a bunch of others and now i wont even consider paying for or trying an ST4 upgrade.

Als i sometimes still accidentally start ST3 and i cant seem to disable the update check? I have tried a bunch of google answers but it still pops up, anybody else had/has this?

[Sillzen]

Preferences -> Settings

Add the following to your user prefs file:

  "update_check": false