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Project alive?

#61

Well, I believe that Jon is working on a rocket. This makes it true? :smiley:

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#62

One theory is likely (iOS games), the other one is unlikely (rockets)

But, hey, maybe he got the rocket working and he is now stuck on Mars with a broken editor and canā€™t write the program to phone home.

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#63

I am the another guy who has only one post. I donā€™t like Atom. And I really care about to hear sth from Kari or Jon. :blush:

ps. I have Sublime license, not a new customer.

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#64

Do not be silly or dream about it .
The project was already dead :imp: :smiling_imp:

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#65

Same question for me, and the plethora of snarky or vague replies donā€™t help much. I think the answer is a resounding NO, since the last development build was over seven months ago, and the last formal beta build release was nine months ago. For a product with a hefty price tag, that sounds like a dead project.

Also: I bought a license to v2 a few year ago, and wanted to use newer builds of v3ā€“but I canā€™t without paying for another license. A $70 license for a product thatā€™s in perpetual beta and whose owner remains mostly inaccessible? No.

And I donā€™t say ā€œnoā€ lightly, because Iā€™ve invested heavily in Sublime Text, and had high hopes for it.

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#66

You can use current beta by using your v2 license with no troubles. Iā€™m on ST3 beta since its launchā€¦

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#67

Hmm. I canā€™t seem to make that work. Do you mean simply enter the v2 license code in v3?

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#68

Indeed you did. Although iā€™m not sure if this works only for dev beta or for the regular beta.

See here:

Upgrades from Sublime Text 2 to Sublime Text 3 will become available when version 3.0 is released later this year. Until such time, upgrading is not required, as Sublime Text 3 will accept Sublime Text 2 license keys during the beta period.

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#69

Thanksā€“ah, I see it works with the 3083 released build. Weirdly, that didnā€™t work last time I tried. I swear. I super swear.

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#70

There will be an option to upgrade your ST2 license to a ST3 license once ST3 is released, which will be cheaper than a new license.

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#71

What you are talking about? I havenā€™t had a single issue on my 5K iMac with El Capitan. Well except the areas where Sublime Text fails to do a good enough job because it isnā€™t updated anymore. That is just nitpicking though. Stuff like Sublime Text opening the same project multiple times in multiple windows. Canā€™t seem to get around that while Atom works like a charm for just that.

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#72

Have been using ST3 on several large codebases for months on Ubuntu 15.10 64 bits with few issues, mostly about the fact that indexing this many files takes a while ā€” but hey, I rely on those indexes so Iā€™ll take the hit.

You know what other text editors havenā€™t really been updated in recent times? Pretty much all of them.

Vim 7.4 was announced so long ago the relevant post has almost dropped off the news page; thatā€™s august 2013 for those keeping score. Emacs 24.5 dates back to April, with the latest release adding actual features being over 16 months old. Notepad++ highlight change for this Julyā€™s version 6.8 release is the new default font. This groundbreaking advancement didnā€™t last long however. Textmate users can be excited about the bolted-on multiple carets getting better in March and better again in September. Good! The world needs more multiple carets.

Want something more lively? Please congratulate nano for their 2.5 release, itā€™s only 40 days old or so. I honestly love nano and have been surprised by how quietly they have been adding features while keeping things simple and lightweight. According to this thread though, pretty much all that matters is the commit frequency and this project delivers ā€” so I really donā€™t see why I should choose atom over nano! They are also equal on other just as critical metrics like number of letters in their name or support for EBCDIC and 3270 ports for those long hard mainframe hacking nights.

If you are switching to Atom, chances are you would have switched to Atom anyway. Atomā€™s continued existence doesnā€™t change how quickly or slowly ST3 work is. Picking your editor based on the speed of development is questionable in the first place. Choose whatever makes you productive, be it Atom + gedit or edit.com + dosbox.

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#73

About Vim - come on, this is open source! Need the latest, with 1000 patches or so?
Look more carefully at the download page - there is Vim 7.4-1064 and many more places around the Web where You can find binaries for all OS.

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#74

Iā€™d appreciate just a little communication. I understand trying to support users takes too much time but just a simple, ā€œhello,ā€ is good manners. Thatā€™s all.

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#75

jps has replied to a few topics since the new forumā€™s up.

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#76

most importantly he replied to one of the issue reports, saying that will be fixed in the next build

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#77

Good enough for me. I would just add, I have to imagine if everyone complaining paid for this software there would be more motivation to more frequently communicate. I can barely afford to pay attention but I consider my purchase money well spent. I am comfortable being the guardian of the developerā€™s solitude, even if I am a bit jealous.

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#78

For the people saying it doesnā€™t work on recent Linux versions: Iā€™ve used Sublime Text 3ā€™s dev version (3095 now) for a long time now without any major problems like crashing or such. And thatā€™s been on (X)Ubuntu 12.04 up to 15.10 now.

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#79

I use ST3 on xubuntu on 15.10, too.

Have you had any issues with scrolling speed? I have to set "scroll_speed": 0, in my preferences, otherwise ST3 slows to a crawl when scrolling.

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#80

Iā€™m using the default setting, no issues. Iā€™m using the official Nvidia drivers though. So maybe that explains why I have not encountered it.

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