Hi! A long time TextMate user here. I have recently started working (again) with Windows in my new job and I have purchased Sublime for doing everyday’s file edits and (Sci)Python development.
However there are couple of things (features) present in TextMate that are (for some reason) missing in sublime.
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Output panel has a fixed layout, and it cannot be made either floating or vertical (eg. right part of the window). This is really a big annoyance when working on multi-monitor setup, and I want the output to be in the 2nd screen while have my dev windows on 1st screen. This is the way I work in TextMate and in Visual Studio.
Honestly I don’t really understand why Console and Output are special panels, if Sublime have such a nice support for splitted layout? Why they can behave like any other editor windows and be part of split/tabbed layout, that can be easily moved around? I know there’s sublime-text-2-buildview plugin, but this is kind of hacky solution.
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Invisibles color cannot be customized for some reason, while TextMate supports it I think from very beginning via “invisibles” entry in color schemes, but for some reason Sublime does not, and color for tabs and spaces is hard-coded, also Sublime does not show line-breaks when show invisibles is on. I use this feature a lot when reviewing the code, for mixed or trailing whitespace stuff. I know you can change alpha of foreground color to somehow change tabs, but it does not affect spaces.
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Last thing, maybe not really important, but it would be great if we could be able to customize line numbers, eg. just use smaller font for them. This would really improve the experience, especially when large files have 4 digit line numbers that take quite a lot of horizontal space, while it is still good to have them.
Anyway Sublime is really great app and I really enjoy working with it now everyday.
Cheers,
Adam