Introducing Block Decorations

Re:Introducing Block Decorations by tuckerman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:33PM (#11029021)

I've recently started using more, but I still have to turn to sublime fairly often due to speed (dealing with larger projects, bigger data files, more complex regex searching).

That being said, the performance has been getting steadily better, enough to the point I can do most of my coding in it without noticing a problem. I'd suggest giving it another go and see how it does for you! It's quite a joy to hack on.

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Re:Introducing Block Decorations by vbit on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:34PM (#11029035)

Can you give an example of 'more complex regex searching'? I thought the JS regex engine would be at par with whatever sublime uses.

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Re:Introducing Block Decorations by tuckerman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:08PM (#11030988)

I don't have issues in terms of expressiveness, but in terms of performance. Complex/expensive regexs that run quite quickly in sublime take a long time on atom, especially on large documents.

Perhaps this is an abuse of the tool, but I find its convenient to do these sorts of things in a text editor where I can watch my regexs highlight it's selections in real time.

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Re:Introducing Block Decorations by SerpentJoe on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:16PM (#11029827)

Not the parent, but the JS regex engine is less powerful than what Sublime uses (PCRE?), lacking among other things atomic groups, possessive quantifiers and lookbehind.

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