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goofle
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I was thinking about Sublime Text and VS Code just today. Now I'm not much aware of history of editors but the moment I've installed vs code I thought "Microsoft has ripped all its ideas in vs code from the sublime guy, a sole developer of a free app" and I was pissed. But today I had a second thought, "maybe sublime guy had his ideas from another editor too" which I really doubt it. I need to know other people opinions on this, so hence the rant.

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  • 3
    8y
    I have never used sublimetext, and only very briefly tried out VS Code, so take this with a grain of salt:

    VS Code felt like a slower emacs for people who need a gui.
  • 1
    8y
    @fbomb definitely sublime is not free,
  • 1
    8y
    @fbomb lol because sooo many people do?
  • 3
    8y
    Pretty sure sublime was based off of TextMate for Mac.
  • 1
    8y
    @TheInitializer Thanks for staying on the point.
  • 0
    8y
    What ideas? Which features are you talking about?
  • 0
    8y
    @setyadi You know how different notepad++ and sublime are. I'm wondering how come that vs code feel a lot like sublime and not npp for example. But mostly JSON setting files, command pallette, goto anything, overall feel you get. I know they're probably not so original ideas, but the way it's done in both editors.
  • 0
    8y
    If you think Code is inspired from Sublimr, then you will have to consider Atom as well. Quite like SublimeText too but free.
  • 7
    8y
    For all of you who want the beginning it's called Vi.
  • 1
    8y
    @StefanH Definitely. I am old enough to have started with line editors like ed and qed. Using vi, a "visual interface" to ed was a revelation.

    We used to joke that Emacs stood for "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping" because it was so heavyweight compared to the machines we had. Nowadays of course Emacs is powerful whilst also being fast and lightweight on modern machines and is my editor of choice.
  • 7
    8y
    @StefanH In fact if I remember correctly the first text editor was something like OS26
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