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#77

[quote=“tito”]What jbjornson says…

Told you!, I’m pretty sure ( :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: ) the problem Arjan has is because of the “generated files”, I mentioned this possibility in the other thread, and I got ignored. This just had happened to me. IF you have opened a project with files that are being changed by another process the index of your project will run constantly, keeping CPU high.[/quote]

Well, tito, the thing is that the generator isn’t running when i open ST3…

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#78

So, it was mcaffe “touching” the files,

which to me is exactly the same thing. :smiley:

Glad you solved the problem, welcome to the “frustration” team. Now, hope you can accept it is this way, who knows what’s going on, try to cooperate in productive and civil ways, hoping for the best. :smile:

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#79

[quote=“tito”]So, it was mcaffe “touching” the files,

which to me is exactly the same thing. :smiley:

Glad you solved the problem, welcome to the “frustration” team. Now, hope you can accept it is this way, who knows what’s going on, try to cooperate in productive and civil ways, hoping for the best. :smile:[/quote]

No can do.

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#80

My mum once told me; “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

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#81

[quote=“jbrooksuk”]

My mum once told me; “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”[/quote]

Yeah, she probably didn’t get far in life.

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#82

How old are you? 12?

She knows when to speak up, and when she does, she doesn’t kick off at the wrong people.

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#83

Holy cow. Your mom didn’t tell you anything about feeding trolls?

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#84

Does Jon work on Sublime Text full time, or is it a weeknight/weekend/vacation project? Really interested in the answer.

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#85

He left his job as a software engineer at Google in 2007 to work on Sublime full time.

Source: sublimetext.com/blog/article … ext-editor

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#86

left Google in 2007 to work on Sublime full time.

That only lasted a few months, for a long time in ST’s history, Jon was burning the candle at both ends, running a full time job while pushing forward.

There were times when it seemed completely infeasible as a business, but he persevered.

Jon may not be all that responsive, but I think he’s more attentive than most would probably think.

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#87

Hahahahahah, nothing like some light entertainment on an friday afternoon.

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#88

Mod? Can we please ban the spammer already!

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#89

@DisposaBoy

Doesn’t really bother me.

It’s not like he’s posting all the time on a heap of different threads (or is he ??? :smile:

@Arjan

Seriously, I’ve noticed it over the years.

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#90

[quote=“castles_made_of_sand”]@DisposaBoy

Doesn’t really bother me.

It’s not like he’s posting all the time on a heap of different threads (or is he ??? :smile:
[/quote]

Nope, DisposaBoy doesn’t know the difference between a spammer and a disgruntled customer. I guess his nick is a big clue.

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#91

[quote=“sublimator”]>>> left Google in 2007 to work on Sublime full time.

That only lasted a few months, for a long time in ST’s history, Jon was burning the candle at both ends, running a full time job while pushing forward.

There were times when it seemed completely infeasible as a business, but he persevered.[/quote]

We were told there were two new employees (Hong and Kari) though.

The lack of community dialog is baffling. 2 years of silence on userecho, four months since the last blog post and tweet, not a single response to the community managed issues list, not even acknowledging its existence and months between dev releases with few changes to show for it.

Should people really have to wonder whether the development is ongoing or not?

During a period of less than one month I managed to single-handedly duplicate enough of ST3’s backend functionality on my spare time to be able to run and pass the full test suite of the ST3 plugin Vintageous. An effort which was born out of the lack of communication in the first place.

I seriously hope you are working on something completely different than Sublime Text, because how 3 people can accomplish so little is just beyond me.

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#92

I support what quarnster says in the previous post. I also find it strange if the project is alive and the level of communication is in its present state. I too expressed my concerns that my bug report was not paid any attention to although it seems to me like a major bug (and I’m also a registered user if it makes any difference). Of course the author can communicate with us any way he likes or not at all, but the project seem abandoned at the moment and unless this is the author’s intention he could always drop a line in the blog/status to keep the community interested - after all Sublime Text is great, but without the community and all the great plugins and our hard work it would be a little more than nice autocomplete and multi-edit capabilities - besides that just another programmer’s notepad with buggy macros. I hope it is just a suspense before another world changing release and the project is alive and will not die as closed source. Right now there is no other editor that is even remotely as good as Sublime Text and if I have to return to Notepad++ I will feel like going back to the stone age.

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#93

If it is, I’d say the priorities are royally screwed up. A small “for the next 6 months we’ll be working day and night implementing awesome new functionality, pardon the lack of communication!” would make a huge difference. Right now there’s no communication at all about what to expect which is really disrespectful to the paying customers.

I mean, if you had asked a friend to pick you up at the airport, and then you missed your flight, would you call to let them know or would you decline to answer every time they were calling to ask where you were?

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#94

Don’t get your hopes up, there were months of silence before the first v3 release, and ST2 and ST3 basically is the same editor (the only difference i really notice is Goto Symbol, but that’s… like… one feature.)

Baffling.

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#95

[quote=“quarnster”]

[quote=“sublimator”]>>> left Google in 2007 to work on Sublime full time.

That only lasted a few months, for a long time in ST’s history, Jon was burning the candle at both ends, running a full time job while pushing forward.

There were times when it seemed completely infeasible as a business, but he persevered.[/quote]

We were told there were two new employees (Hong and Kari) though.

The lack of community dialog is baffling. 2 years of silence on userecho, four months since the last blog post and tweet, not a single response to the community managed issues list, not even acknowledging its existence and months between dev releases with few changes to show for it.

Should people really have to wonder whether the development is ongoing or not?

During a period of less than one month I managed to single-handedly duplicate enough of ST3’s backend functionality on my spare time to be able to run and pass the full test suite of the ST3 plugin Vintageous. An effort which was born out of the lack of communication in the first place.

I seriously hope you are working on something completely different than Sublime Text, because how 3 people can accomplish so little is just beyond me.[/quote]

I think it is the combination of the lack of respect for his customers and the lack of priority of the project.
I suspect he works on something else he finds more interesting than ST and this is just a side project.

It’s a shame, I really love Sublime, and would love to see him sell it off to someone who gives a shit.

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#96

I feel the same way but it was clearly stated, before paying:

[quote]NO WARRANTIES
SUBLIME HQ PTY LTD expressly disclaims any warranty for SUBLIME TEXT, which is provided ‘as is’ without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, or fitness of a particular purpose.[/quote]

Nevertheless it will be a shame if the project dies as closed source, or even if the project lives on it will be a shame that our trust/support for the project is shaken by the lack of communication, because Sublime is much of what it is because of the community.

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