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What VS features do you miss the most in ST?

#1

I’ve been in love with ST for many years now, and I wouldn’t use anything else for development, but I’m also a bit worried about its apparent stagnation in terms of new features / future development. I’ve only been using ST, and every time I tried anything else I eventually went back to ST, so I’m not really sure what other editors provide in terms of capabilities compared to ST. Therefore I’m asking: what are the essential features that you miss the most in ST compared to, say, Visual Studio?

The only major thing that comes to mind to me is sticky scrolling. What’s in your ST wish list? What’s the game changer feature that you miss the most and that you think it would make a difference in terms of competition with other editors?

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#2

Well, I cannot say that I miss anything in particular. ST has been my daily driver for many years and I think it will stay like that for many years to come. I mostly program in Julia. I’ve used VS once or twice and been using Spyder and R-Studio for some time. The only thing that could be added is a part of the main window that could display the currently drawn plot. Nothing else comes to me, definitely no game changers. I’d wish the developers of ST just keep it as it is, just polish it where needed.

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#3

I use both vscode and sublime text.

The feature that I miss by far the most is the ability to synchronise keybindings/keyboard shortcuts.
When using vscode, you can synchronise them, which is great, but there is also a significantly deal of flexibility in synchronising them.

For example, I use Windows, MacOS and Linux on a regular basis, and can choose to have keybindings platform specific.

Alternatively, and this applies more to other settings, I may choose not to sync a setting. For me, this is by far the most useful feature that vscode has which sublime does not.

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#4

Technically, people can sync settings with any git host (such as famous github/gitlab) easily. But if they can only accept an official builtin solution, then none.

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#5

I would be happy if the symbol-look-up (ctrl-r) could be “pinned” as an additional side-bar (left or right) so that you can immediately go somewhere instead of the extra handling…

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#6

In that case also you have an improved overview of you code…

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#7

I was required to use VS code on one of my contracts a few years ago. All i remember was that on a regular basis it would corrupt source files, that the user interface changed DRASTICALLY between version x.y.z.a.b.c.0 and x.y.z.a.b.c.1 and that it just made my skin crawl to use it.

I have “nits” against ST4. MINOR nits LOL

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#8

The only thing missing is the remote SSH and Docker container plugin from VS Code (which aren’t part of the OSS VSCodium either).

And as long as the sticky scrolling can be disabled, it’s fine by me :wink:

But Sublime Merge is IMHO way better than all of VS Code’s git plugins (and even better than Emacs’ Magit).

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