Sublime Forum

**braver** · May 7, 2018, 6:28pm

You assume a lot there.

**psiclone** · May 7, 2018, 6:29pm

Because we all know how common it is for people who code on an 8K monitor rather than the oft-requested ability to print code with line numbers built in. Better to let free competitors like NotePad++ who can offer a full-featured product for free do basic printing capability so that all the Sublime fanboys can be happy.

**jtojnar** · May 7, 2018, 3:11pm

I prefer clay tablets to paper, they are more environmentally friendly

**ThomSmith** · May 7, 2018, 3:13pm

The difference is that there are a number of packages that can do that, whereas packages can’t add 8K support to the core program.

**djspiewak** · May 7, 2018, 3:55pm

I’ve had to print code exactly once in my entire career. It was more than 15 years ago. If I had to do it now, I would export to HTML and print from Safari, incurring about 10 seconds of inconvenience to achieve the same result. I realize everyone has different use-cases, but really, this doesn’t seem like something they need to drop everything to work on.

**psiclone** · May 7, 2018, 4:26pm

Yes, but 8K! LOL! How often have you had to code on an 8K monitor in your 15 year career? Whatever.

**deathaxe** · May 7, 2018, 5:19pm

As the scaling system already exists, adding a new scaling max value of 3.0 and loading @3 resources next to @2 ones requires just a couple of lines not worth the whole discussion here!

**psiclone** · May 7, 2018, 6:19pm

Why not? It’s no more effort than the rest of paying customers have to go through every time they have to print something over time.

**wbond** · May 7, 2018, 6:30pm

Note: I’ve moved this discussion to a new thread where the finer points of our decision not to add printing support in this release can be discussed further.

For those wishing to read the previous discussion, please see Printing from sublime.

**bijan** · May 7, 2018, 6:46pm

I don’t print my code. Makes totally sense to not implement it. If you want printing you can still copy and paste your code to a publishing software like word, pages, open office etc.

**braver** · May 7, 2018, 6:53pm

A few years ago I couldn’t imagine 4K. Things going as they go, rendering properly at 8K is certainty a reasonable feature in a few years. It extends existing features, so it’s probably a “why not” thing especially as they’ve been working on the rendering pipeline anyway.

I’ve never printed code. The chances of me ever doing that are zilch.

**An_dz** · May 7, 2018, 8:02pm

That comparison makes no sense, if you have an 8K monitor you code 100% of the time on 8K. But you don’t print stuff 100% of the time.

**Doodpants** · May 8, 2018, 1:09pm

So who ever said that Sublime can only be used for code? I often use it for notes and lists and other types of simple textual content, and there have been times when I’ve wanted to print such things.

**psiclone** · May 7, 2018, 9:22pm

Sure it does. There are likely way more people who have requested the ability to print their code or other textual uses Sublime is used for than those who have an 8K monitor, let alone code on one.

**An_dz** · May 8, 2018, 2:48pm

SublimeText never had print support, so adding print support is adding a new feature from scratch, it’s a lot of work.

On the other hand SublimeText is a software with a GUI, it displays an UI on the screen, the code for 8K support is merely extending a feature that already exists, actually you can consider it as a bug fix because on 8K monitors Sublime would not be displayed ‘correctly’.

And as I said before IF you have an 8K monitor Sublime will now look correctly, before it would not and there was no workaround. On the other hand printing is something that you can workaround, like creating a build system with "shell_cmd": "notepad /p $file".

**octothrope** · May 8, 2018, 6:45pm

In the time you’ve spent coming here to gripe (in multiple threads) about this stupid “issue”, you probably could’ve learned to code your own flippin’ text editor.

**psiclone** · May 9, 2018, 12:20am

Or you could have worked around it by not trying to code on an 8K monitor. It’s like wearing clown shoes to run in the Olympics.

**AllanLRH** · May 10, 2018, 11:36am

On the rare occasions where I need to print my code, I print it from Komodo Edit, which is free and have good printing support… Hope the suggestion can help some of you

**pete.m** · May 10, 2018, 3:15pm

I am not supporting the snarky nature of the thread starter. But I think print is standard and expected as a main feature not a plug in. I don’t code in python . But wouldn’t it be easy to pop out a html page with a window of 8 1/2 x 11 with 1/2 inch margins text in black and white in

tags prompting print? I think that would work in all OS. just do a window on-load print then exit.

To me this wouldn’t be a priority or focus or anything. just sorta like a bored lunch break activity. But again I don’t python so maybe it would take a lot of core changes or something. More than likely (and I love sublime) the developers like to do something exactly right and are nit picky. Like I said I like the program so your doing something right.

But I program because I love being efficient with my time. having to copy text from sublime into word or something feel inefficient. Installing a plugin to this pc and a others also feels inefficient. I wouldn’t mind figuring out python to help add this feature, but I bet me looking at the source is out of the question…

I love sublime, but I also like not having to do a work-around in what is usually a user friendly application.

**iamntz** · May 10, 2018, 3:58pm

Please also compare how often you had a chance to use a HD display in the first 7 years of your career vs the next 8 years.

@wbond: while personally I just don’t care about printing, I guess an official statement about printing would be useful. Until now, I think @jps stated once, back in 2009 or so, that is low priority. Probably an update on this could be useful?

Printing in 3.1