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Sublime need plugin to be sublime, hoho

#1

What mean ‘sublime’ when you need study a whole plugin to change the bracket highlight behaviour?

Are you serious guys?

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#2

I’d point you to a solution that does not require a plugin, but you never elaborated on what you mean with “bracket highlight behaviour”.

I’m also not going to educate on how extensibility is one of Sublime Text’s biggest selling factor.
The plugin, you are seemingly referring to, is awesome regardless.

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#3

I know that is a good factor but basic thing a developper need to seek in the code might be in the base of the soft I think.
I spend a lot to find how to hack it and at least I cannot have the exact thing I would: change the brackt highlight…

I suppose this a special feature not easy to code in python langage.

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#4

What is the appropriate thing to do with no-content useless posts like this? Should they be reported as off-topic or should we all just simply ignore them? Sometimes it seems like they make up about 50% of the discussion on these forums. Do the admins have the power to delete posts that waste everyone’s time, or would that be considered user hostile and therefore unpopular?

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#5

I guess flag it as Inappropriate, and hopefully it will disappear automatically.

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#6

Ignore, normally. The admins have more important stuff than to do then delete no-content posts. One of my reports remained unhandled for 4 months or so.

I just replied in order to hear what kind of highlighting they wanted, but I still don’t know it.

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#7

So it’s sound that you can’t understand what developper need for have a good seeking in the code display? Right.
Look at Notepad++ and you could understand what I mean, change the color for display might be the most basic things when you call your apps Sublime Text but it’s looks that we cannot understand each other the same langage for it.

So, yes it"s very important to control whole of the display when you write code in an apps dedicate for it, and have minimum of code completion either, that help… a lot !
But may be I’m wrong and that it was’nt the purpose of this apps…

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#8

Sublime does come with themes http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/customization/color_schemes.html

Additionally if you wish to modify the colors yourself you can create your own theme which is also documented in the link. The editor was created to have a nice aesthetic of its own though in a slightly opinionated way in that the defaults are slim pickings purposely. Just about every editor out there uses a plugin system including Notepad++ which you linked to (I was a user of it as well years ago and had many plugins there too), the reality is that you can’t build for every use case. So you don’t. You add a way for people to do it themselves, and document it while covering everything you think the editor needs.

You aren’t used to this because you are coming from something else, experiment and play with plugins. Don’t get frustrated. Check out http://packagecontrol.io/ as well for ideas on popular plugins and stuff, it’s literally like 2-3 keystrokes to install plugins once you’re configured. :slightly_smiling:

If you need help feel free to ask here, people will be generally helpful though, just don’t come in being an ass and thinking of some snide insult towards the editor just because you’re frustrated.

Also I get the sense that English is not your first language, nor are you particularly experienced with programming, if that is the case, you will need to give more details on what you have tried and describe what it is that you want out of Sublime that you think it lacks.

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#9

Thanks for the usefull answer. I hope that help to understand better.
Yes, I come from ‘something else’ something where logic and make sense is not an option. :slightly_smiling:

Sorry if I hurt your community, but look that I have not insulting somebody! (misunderstood?)
Maybe critic and cinic attitude is not allowed here but from my country, that would be…

I look forward to make my own customize color option.

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#10

Well, you didn’t directly insult anyone, but starting a discussion like this:

surely doesn’t help being taken seriously. Just as a tip for next time.

I can see you are not too versed in the English language, but if you seek help (even if you don’t know you do), taking the extra step of being polite can go a long way. We’re all very friendly to one another here and suddenly having someone come in in a rude way can easily put us off. As @315234 mentioned earlier, a common way to handle situations like this is to just ignore the disturber and continue with our own business, in which case you probably would not have received any answer at all.

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