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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by jamesmoss on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @04:38AM (#2944811)
Have they sorted out the rubbish file manager yet? When I open a directory I don't need an animation of the contents sliding in from the right. This slows me down. I want to switch to ST2 but there's just too many little things holding me back.
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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by jamesmoss on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @06:58AM (#2945052)
Okay maybe rubbish was a bit of an exaggeration but it's lacking in a lot of areas:

- No icons. Makes it hard to differentiate between files and directories at a glance. - No drag and drop, you cant quickly copy and move files. - Renaming files is clunky (on OS X at least). - Right clicking a file doesn't give you many useful options. - Doesn't match the host OS's file manager very well. It's some sort of weird middle ground; on Windows it should act like Explorer, on OS X it should use the same conventions as Finder.

Compare the file manager to the ones in Coda and Espresso and it's fairly poor. I know the ctrl/cmd + p shortcut is pretty amazing but sometimes you don't know exactly what you're looking for and have to fall back to browsing through a codebase to find what you're after.

This post sounds a bit hateful, but I really like the rest of ST2. It's just the file manager which gives me grief.

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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by jsdalton on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @08:42AM (#2945262)
The fly-in animation drives me insane. I feel ridiculous that such a little thing bothers me so much, but every time I've tried to switch from Textmate to ST2 I've gotten hung up on those little details. They hurt my brain, and when I'm using a text editor I want to be 100% focused on my code.
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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by frou_dh on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @04:51AM (#2944838)
I agree that that horizontal slide effect should go, it's just not an appropriate place for it.
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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by ilja on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @05:25AM (#2944894)
How does one animation make the whole file manager "rubbish"? Seems a bit exaggerated...
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Re:Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent ... by fletchowns on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @04:44AM (#2944821)
What file manager? I just use Ctrl+P all the time.
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