Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by orkohunter on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:14AM
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I don't think there's anything to learn to use sublime. Yeah sure Sublime is frowned upon. People are so much blinded with vim and emacs that many of them try to feel derogatory over others. You will not find this in culture unless you discuss it with your colleagues.
Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by mahouse on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:13AM
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So enlighten me. Because the post says absolutely nothing about why we all should use editors other than Sublime. Sublime is massively popular because it's good, it looks good, it's easy to use, it's simple, etc.
vimtutor exists for a reason. There's no such thing for Sublime.
Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by DanAndersen on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:24AM
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I think that's the point -- when a tool requires a lot of documentation and tutorials to use it, and other tools that accomplish most of the same tasks do not require them, that may be a sign that the tool that needs the tutorials is overly cumbersome.
Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by lightblade on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:47AM
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I guess it is frowned upon in this way. After 4 years of using Vim, watching other people live coding in Sublime is like watching turtle crawl.
"C'mon faster!!"
Can be a bit frustrating actually.
I guess the reason could be that because Sublime edits are slower, as the live coder explains things, he/she needs to pause the explanation to finish editing before resuming the explanation. This interrupted flow is what actually causes the frustration.
Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by bubblebubble on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:24PM
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I'd like to see a coding session with vim/emacs with an on screen keyboard map from someone skilled enough to convince me to start learning. Any pointer?
Re:Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
by lightblade on Thursday May 28, 2015 @01:03PM
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I think vimcast[1] actually does something similar to that. The actual keystrokes are displayed on the screen as he live code the screencast. Check it out.
Sublime Text is not frowned upon because nobody cares about the editor you use as long as your code is good. Period.
vimtutor exists for a reason. There's no such thing for Sublime.
Do you really need to "learn" what your cursor keys do and keys like pdup and pgdn?? Weird.
"C'mon faster!!"
Can be a bit frustrating actually.
I guess the reason could be that because Sublime edits are slower, as the live coder explains things, he/she needs to pause the explanation to finish editing before resuming the explanation. This interrupted flow is what actually causes the frustration.
[1]: http://vimcasts.org