I used Sublime Text 2 on all my machines for over a month for Python and C. It was great for about 90% of the things. But I ended up going back to jedit because of:
- The way split views are handled for:
a. The same file in multiple views.
b. Non-global scope on 'Ctrl+P' in multiple views.
- Better Highlighter plugin. (The existing ones for ST2 don't provide the same features)
- The Hypersearch (and the overall search/replace dialog) in jedit is awesome.
On a quick search I didn't find the options to get these preferences, but I'm sure they will come to be, if they haven't already. (Please feel free to suggest the options if I'm overlooking anything.)
That said, the reason I switched back to jedit is because I was much faster in it even though I had got a good hang of ST2.
Aside: I never see jEdit being discussed in these editor discussions. Personally, I feel it's the best editor out there today despite being dependent on the jre.
Same file in multiple views is actually possible but difficult to find: Under file you have to say 'duplicate in other view' (or something like that, I use Vim now).
I know how to achieve it, (File > New view into file), it's just not as natural as jedit (You just open different views and the current open file defaults to opening in the new view too).
If there's a way to set this up in ST2, please feel free to comment!
Oh sorry. I thought you didn't know how to achieve it, because I knew that I struggled a bit since I think the implementation is really cumbersome and I didn't expect it to be that way. My fault, sorry.
the last time i tried jedit (admittedly, years ago) i found the font rendering on mac os x to be ugly. since it's on your checklist, i assume it's improved since then?
- The way split views are handled for:
a. The same file in multiple views.
b. Non-global scope on 'Ctrl+P' in multiple views.
- Better Highlighter plugin. (The existing ones for ST2 don't provide the same features)
- The Hypersearch (and the overall search/replace dialog) in jedit is awesome.
On a quick search I didn't find the options to get these preferences, but I'm sure they will come to be, if they haven't already. (Please feel free to suggest the options if I'm overlooking anything.)
That said, the reason I switched back to jedit is because I was much faster in it even though I had got a good hang of ST2.
Aside: I never see jEdit being discussed in these editor discussions. Personally, I feel it's the best editor out there today despite being dependent on the jre.
It checks all the right boxes:
- GPL/Open source
- Free
- Cross platform
- Huge repository of plugins
- Amazing font rendering
- Highly configurable
- Really nice search/replace hypersearch feature.
- Great themes available
..and a lot more things.