Re:Atom Was Archived Today
by whalesalad on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:23AM
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As an editor day to day yes you are correct. Sublime is the goat as far as performance. VSCode has become my primary editor because I work remotely via SSH but nothing can touch the lightness and latency of subl. I still run it in tandem with vscode for stuff that doesn’t require a remote conn. It’s an order of magnitude quicker than VSCode.
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Re:Atom Was Archived Today
by europeanguy on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:13AM
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> nothing can touch the lightness and latency of subl
There's this editor called vim. You should have a look.
For some people (like me), re-teaching muscle memory is a huge battle that takes years. Switching to an editor where you can't use the mouse as a crutch until you learn it is a non-starter.
vim has both terminal and gui builds. The latter supports the mouse.
I use vim as my daily driver. Just want to make it clear to people that even vim with mouse support is not going to be a drop in replacement for vscode/atom/sublime. You're still going to have a hare time being productive in it for a good while until you learn the keybinds and train your muscle-memory
Re:Atom Was Archived Today
by HouseOfStairs on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:12AM
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Even the terminal build supports the mouse. `set mouse=a`
Next time you're on an airplane and have nothing to do, but have access to a laptop, consider firing up `vimtutor`. I think you might underestimate how much time it takes to build up muscle memory in a new system. Not saying you'll be a wizard by the time you get off the flight, but it might surprise you how far you get!
You need a good machine, but on an M2 SSD with a recent CPU and enough RAM, VSCode takes one second to start, much less to open a new tab. Not sure Sublime Text's speed will still be a big selling point in the future.