Re:Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text
by lobster_johnson on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:19PM
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No, I do not.
Xcode is also native (although not very pretty), but it is a horrible IDE. I use Sublime for my ObjC coding, although I am forced to use Xcode for some things that ST cannot do, like adding files to a project, editing compilation flags or working with .xib and Core Data .momd files.
It's a compromise. IDEA is too ugly to use, Sublime lacks some features but is great in most areas.
Re:Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text
by encoderer on Friday March 01, 2013 @10:18PM
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Not to debate you, because hey, it's your perogative. But I want to just ask this though and give you the last word with it:
Given that many of the features you're talking about actually do exist in IntelliJ, etc, doesn't that mean that yes, you are sacrificing function for form?
Re:Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text
by lobster_johnson on Saturday March 02, 2013 @06:32AM
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Yes, it's a compromise. It's not all about function, or all about form. If ST is 90% beautiful, and IDEA is 0% beautiful, then I will choose Sublime even if it's 5% less functional.
There are other factors at play such as speed; Sublime is lightning fast, IDEA is not. And afaik, IDEA does not support Sublime-style multiple carets.
I don't know what others do, but I actually hide the toolbars in my IDEs (I use several JetBrains products: PyCharm and IntelliJ mostly, PHPStorm and RubyMine to a lesser extent.) PyCharm actually received a facelift recently that I hope finds its way to the other products as well.
All JetBrians products ship with several skins (ctrl+tilde brings up the menu) and I've never found any trouble getting them the way I want. I do find XCode (which is my go-to editor for C and C++ not being an ObjectiveC developer myself) to be a very good looking IDE but personally, I'd never sacrifice function. It's just too important. IMHO, of course.