Sublime Text v3.0

[Arthur]

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Sublime Text 3.0 is out!

 

Compared to the last beta, 3.0 brings a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Some of the other highlights are big syntax highlighting improvements, touch input support on Windows, Touch Bar support on macOS, and apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux.

 

I wanted to highlight some of the changes from Sublime Text 2 here, however it's surprisingly hard: virtually every aspect of the editor has been improved in some way, and even a list of the major changes would be too long. If you'd like to see the full list of changes, the team has made a dedicated page for them.

 

Certainly there are big features that 3.0 has: Goto Definition, a new syntax highlighting engine, a new UI, and an expanded API. However the difference is frequently felt in the hundreds of improvements that don't warrant being featured on their own: spell checking works better, automatic indentation does the right thing more often, word wrapping handles source code better, high DPI screens are properly supported, and Goto Anything is smarter. There's too much to list, but combined the difference is night and day.

 

One of the areas I'm especially proud of in Sublime Text 3 is performance: it's significantly faster than Sublime Text 2 along every axis. Startup is faster, opening files is faster, and scrolling is more efficient. While it's a much larger application than 2, it feels leaner.

 

If you purchased your Sublime Text license from February 2013 onwards, then it's already valid for Sublime Text 3.0. If your license key is for Sublime Text 1 or 2, then you can purchase an upgrade.

 

From myself and the team at Sublime HQ, we're very proud of Sublime Text 3.0, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Onwards to 3.1!

 

[ZeroHour]

Epic app, already upgraded.

[matt40k]

Surprised folks pay. Visual Studio Code, Bracket and Atom are all free.

[Arthur]

Surprised folks pay.

One of Sublime's best features is its speed. It's easy to see why some people would pay for that.

 

That said, my current favourite text editor is VS Code.

[mavhc]

Backets does seem to have an MSI, unlike Atom (has an msi, isn't really what you want, needs installing in user profile), VSCode (msi mate? never heard of it, who invented that then?)

[mavhc]

MSI seems to install ok, extensions are installed in user %appdata%, and are js, which is probably going to be blocked for ransomware avoidance. Does seem to work with a proxy though.

[matt40k]

@mavhc - Have you asked for a MSI installer for VS Code? As for the Atom one, have you tried the --machine switch?

[mavhc]

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/38008

 

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/13789