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Sublime Text 3 Updated

by jimhart3000 on 8/26/14, 2:10 PM with 85 comments

  • by ceronman on 8/26/14, 3:29 PM

    I love this editor and it makes me sad to see how the project is stalled.

    In 2002 the investors behind Blender launched the "Free Blender" campaign. They asked for 100,000 EUR as a one-time fee for open sourcing it. At the time the project was dying as a proprietary product. The investors got the money and today Blender is a healthy open source project.

    I would love to see something similar with Sublime Text. The author seems uninterested in continuing with its development while many users want to see it moving forward. I believe it can raise much more money than Blender at the time.

  • by ggreer on 8/26/14, 2:44 PM

    Please note that this is a dev build of Sublime Text 3. You can only get it by manually downloading or checking for updates using a dev build. The most recent stable build of ST3 is from December of 2013.[1]

    Dev builds are alpha-quality and generally unsuitable for everyday use. The current build will change permissions on any file you save.[2]

    1. http://www.sublimetext.com/3

    2. http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16696&s...

  • by polyvisual on 8/26/14, 3:14 PM

    I've almost given up with Sublime Text. I have a bug with the Linux version on xubuntu which causes the application window to shudder when I scroll. It's something to do with smooth scrolling.

    I can't register at their forums as it requires a keyword which you can only get by emailing keyword@sublimetext.com - I've tried three times and each time I've been ignored. I've also tried email the other ST employee, but been ignored also.

    Very frustrating when I've paid for a licence.

  • by bproctor on 8/26/14, 3:07 PM

    It's kind of sad that this project has become so dead that an update to a dev build is news worthy.

  • by a2tech on 8/26/14, 2:33 PM

    The article doesn't link directly to the list of changes which are as follows:

    Improved quote auto pairing logic

    Selected group is now stored in the session

    Fixed a crash triggered by Goto Anything cloning views

    Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe

    OSX: Added 'New Window' entry to dock menu

    Posix: Using correct permissions for newly created files and folders

  • by jrochkind1 on 8/26/14, 4:36 PM

    I don't really understand why these new releases are called 'dev' builds, and there isn't an official non-dev ST3 build yet.

    Are most people using ST3 anyway, despite the releases being labelled dev builds? Are they in fact pretty stable? Are most widely used plugins updated for ST3 (and maybe no longer supported for ST2?)

    Should I just go ahead and switch ST3 "dev"?

    All multiple years of 'dev' releases gets you is confusion, if this is what most people are using and most plugin developers are targetting, i wish the developer would just call it a release.

  • by hit8run on 8/26/14, 4:21 PM

    Sublimetext 3 beta is really stable and fast as hell. I don't know what black magic they use under osx but it is even smoother than http://chocolatapp.com which is a native cocoa based editor with nice builtin code completions for many languages.

  • by wickchuck on 8/26/14, 3:20 PM

    Anyone have a clue as to what were supposed to be able to do with this "Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe". I'm guessing it's mainly for a shorter exe name to add to your path when launching sublime from the command line, but maybe I'm missing something?

  • by coldtea on 8/26/14, 4:24 PM

    People talk about the "bus factor", and how OSS would have been a better option.

    But far more often I've been beaten from the:

    1) "Yeah, core devs moved on now, and nobody cares to maintain this OSS software".

    2) "Yeah, core devs decided to rewrite everything from scratch and change APIs and ABIs".

  • by tuananh on 8/26/14, 3:08 PM

    hardly a noteworthy update.

  • by tokenizerrr on 8/26/14, 4:26 PM

    Sad to see there is still no word on an ARM build.

  • by crxgames on 8/26/14, 2:37 PM

    Glad to see the project is still alive :)

  • by Walkman on 8/27/14, 12:12 PM

    Wow, another update (3064)!

  • by steveeq1 on 8/26/14, 4:24 PM

    I read up on this editor a little bit, but the thing that gets me is: what's wrong with emacs? I don't see anything this editor does that emacs can't do.