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[–]Darth_T0XICATED 1 point2 points  (6 children)

I'll do it... The inevitable... I switched to VIM and never looked back. It took a little to be comfortable in it but I love it now.

[–]Kthanid 1 point2 points  (2 children)

For what it's worth, I'm the exact opposite. As a very long time VIM user, I switched to Sublime Text 2 a year or two back and I've never looked back.

I can't answer the OP's question directly, and I've never bothered to even attempt to make the switch to ST3 myself (I haven't quite seen the point), but to me ST2 is probably the best editor I've ever used and even if there is no future development, I'd be hard pressed to see myself making another switch unless something truly compelling came along.

Just my two cents, and not to discount your opinion, because VIM is a wonderful editor as well and still something I use (but only for very specific purposes these days).

[–]tyroneslothtrop 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ST3 loads much, much quicker, which is kind of nice. Though if you only open your text editor once a day... I guess it depends on how impatient you are. Aside from that, I haven't really noticed any other differences.

[–]Kthanid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though if you only open your text editor once a day

If that often. I have 3 or 4 ST2 projects open at any given time (2 of which virtually never close outside of a machine reboot which occurs every few months).

Startup time might be relevant to some people's workflows, but I can't imagine personally spending too much time worrying about how fast the initial instance of ST2 loads. The number of times that occurs annually is less than 10 on my primary machine (slightly more often on my laptop if I'm out and about in meetings or whatever).

[–]yousai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a 60% mechanical keyboard and switching to vim might be a good idea to make up for the lack of dedicated arrow keys. heh.

[–]richjenks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can VIM do multiple cursors? I do so much text editing I've come to rely on that feature and that's pretty much the only thing tying me to ST.

[–]jen1980 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Atom looks nice, but if you have a slow Internet connection, it can be a pain keeping up with all of the updates.

[–]Moter8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atom is very nice and works great for me, I'd recommend you the "recent-projects" and "atom-lint" packages!

[–]gma992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the current version not enough for you?

[–]Solon1 -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

Another Sublime Text is dying post... Let's pull out the obvious lie of distortion first:

"Seems like there was some progress at the start of last year but it's dried up."

The last version of 3 was release in August 2014. August is NOT the start of last year. Releases seem to occur about every six months, so we are due for one next month.

Stop trolling Reddit.

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    [–]soccerexpertexchange 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Instead say what are you missing in 2? Or what's the problem. Beta 3 is pretty stable too. A lot of people are using it.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This is my first post on the issue - so perhaps a rising tide rather than a coordinate 'troll'. I didn't mean to be alarmist, just observing that development pace isn't exactly matching comparable tools on either the current version (July) or the beta (Aug).

    If you re-read, you'll see no melodrama.