Re:Sublime Text 4
by catillac on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:29AM
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I don’t use sublime in my day to day, but always keep it on hand because it’s the only IDE that quickly opens for viewing very large csv or similar files without a hitch. PyCharm, VSCode, Aton all barf under these conditions.
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Just for the speed of large file, on macOS, I find the BBEdit is great too. The basic functions of BBEdit can be used for free even.
Happy to see another satisfied BBEdit user. Been my go-to Mac editor since Mac Plus.
I loved BBEdit and/or TextMate for the Mac. Both were great.
I switched to Sublime after I had to work on Linux machines for a while.
For these instances I just use vim or sed/awk/etc.
Sublime easily handles files that make my Vim slow to a crawl. Agreed on using sed/awk/(rip)grep/other pipeline tools where it makes sense.
Sublime will barf if the file gets big enough too. In that case use something like HxD
How big of a file are we talking? I've had to open multi-gig Maya ASCII flies before to find broken nodes and Sublime was always my go to solution. Scrolling performance takes a hit, and the file can take some time to open, but overall works reasonably well.