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Power User vs Productivity book

#1

Hello,

in the past I tried using Emacs, but two times I did experience slight wrist pain and decided not to sue it despite its features.

I’m superficially familiar with Vim which I regularly use within my mailer (Evolution) as external editor as well as for config files, while editing something on the server etc.

However, I’m aware that it has steep learning curve and to setup everything requires lot of time and that’s why I’m trying editors like Atom/ST…but considering I always prefer desktop over web app and seeing some new life here, I’d like to dive deeply into ST3 which I’d use for working with Python as well as for some HTML/CSS (Foundation6) stuff.

There is Sublime Text Power User ebook which is finished and similarly priced Sublime Productivity which is still ‘unfinished’ and no signs that author is still working on it (last updated 4 months ago).

So, I’m interested if someone is familiar with both and/or can recommend which one gives “more bang for the buck” for my most used cases or simply goes deeper:

  • writing Python3+PyQt+Cython desktop app + working with Jinja2 templates for static-site-generator

  • working with HTML/CSS while creating web themes based on Foundation CSS framework

Anyone?

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#2

My very personal opinion - it’s better to just read about the tips that people often mention on the web and work out your own flow.

The moment a book is written, it is outdated. Books are often very opinionated and focus on one particular area, e.g. frontend web dev. The area that you are going to read about is most likely not a perfect fit to your own needs.

Simply take the time to learn the editor, play with it, discover new plugins and shortcuts that suit you the best. You can write your own book.

Taking a step back, you can always just ask on the forum about what packages are good for, e.g. cython or frontend web dev. My answer would be: emmet is a must have for html/css.

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#3

[quote=“prmaple, post:2, topic:16327, full:true”]
My very personal opinion - it’s better to just read about the tips that people often mention on the web and work out your own flow.[/quote]

That’s good advice, thank you!

I’ll take that route…starting with unnofficial docs and that is going to provide for half of editor’s licence cost. :relaxed:

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#4

Was going to recommend the unofficial docs as a good source. When I started working out the internals of ST, there were pretty much only these docs (in a much smaller form), the forum and other packages to look at. We still plan to improve the docs in a few manners that will also cater for beginner users, since we are currently mostly working on advanced topics.

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#5

It’s nice to hear people are seeing future of ST…and considering I practically decided to settle on Python/rst/Sphinx for all/most of my programming/docs needs, I hope I’ll be able to somehow contribute to the community. :wink:

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#6

I’m the author of the sublime text power user book. It also comes with some videos for the more visual aspects.

You can learn most things from reading the docs, but what nice heard from my readers is that this is a great way to quickly get everything you need to know and get up to speed. Much of the stuff in the book is workflow based - how to tackle certain problems.

It’s 100% money back if you are still on the fence - I only want you to buy it if you get a lot of value from it.

Lmk if I can answer any more questions!

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#7

Sure you can get all that info somewhere on the web but if you use Sublime all day most days, just one extra tip will likely cover the price of an ebook and having somewhere central to reference that info is great.

I’ve only read Wes’s book and that was the same deal: most stuff I knew (or had even wrote up myself) previously but there was at least one or two extra things that made it entirely worth while. I recommend it and with a money back deal what do you have to lose?

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#8

[quote=“wesbos, post:6, topic:16327, full:true”]
I’m the author of the sublime text power user book. It also comes with some videos for the more visual aspects.[/quote]

Is it possible to just buy the book and ‘upgrade’ to videos later?

OK, good to know. I’ll start with ‘unofficial’ docs and see how far I can get while stile waiting for some signs from ST project itself…

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#9

Yep - just lmk if you want to upgrade

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