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Emacs doesn't have "plugins", they are called "packages" for a reason. Every Emacs package is not just a plug-n-play "product", it's a recipe, you can use them as libraries, cherry-picking behaviors you want without ever executing the main features of the package.

You'd need to keep the python 3.3 plugin host disabled, but otherwise yes. OpenSSL 1.1 will be removed along with 3.3 in the next development cycle.

Long term prospects for Sublime Text look good. The business is healthy and there is consistent work being done by a small but dedicated team.

As for why specific issues aren't addressed, it's merely a prioritization thing. It's a large task, and I'm sure if you asked 100 people they'd all give you different answers for which "basic usability" thing needs to be addressed.

Not very much following the forums, but the pace they are producing things is fine. What is "basic usability thing" for you, might be something unimportant for the rest. How the team sets the priorities might be just fine for a lot of users..

The answer is probably "no". Sublime Text has no built-in remote editing capabilities.

Of course, it supports remote filesystems (NFS, Windows network shares, etc..), as these are just files, you can also run Sublime Text on a remote desktop or X server, and there as plugins for things like ssh-based synchronization, so its not that you can't do it.

But what it doesn't have and that VSCode and Zed have is the ability to edit files on a remote server with only an ssh connection, by running the GUI part on one machine and the file I/O part on the other.

Even though Sublime Text is my primary editor and I have no intention to change, it is still something I miss. It is one of the reasons I sometimes switch to VSCode (which is a good reminder of how slow VSCode is compared to ST).

If you mean git repos, Sublime Text itself only has minimal git support, but it integrates well with Sublime Merge, which, of course, supports remotes. I don't use Sublime Merge though, it is probably very good, but I never took the time to learn it, I do most of my git work on the command line.

Not sure what you mean by "opening a repo on a remote server", but if you mean mounting a remote file system, this isn't really a sublime-specific feature. Use SSHFS (or other) and then just open the folder in Sublime and have at it.

If you mean interacting with git directly with Sublime, there's a number of plugins https://packagecontrol.io/packages/GitSavvy. But this does like any normal workflow does -- it creates a local repo and uses standard git commands to sync (push/pull).

My use on remote servers is usually with winscp on windows and defining sublime as the default editor. Works fine for my use.

I haven't looked much in the repo of plugins, but quickly searching 'ssh' there I found these (but not tested) that might fit your need : https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SSHubl https://packagecontrol.io/packages/OpenFileOverSSH

Curiosity is killing my cat here. How are we supposed to know when your freshman year of college was? Was it a year ago, 8?

As far as I know ST is just a text editor (File -> Open -> Choose File)... so what would "opening a repo" even mean in that context?

For me? I already have Sublime Text installed, it works great, and has never not worked great.

Sublime text is what notepad++ wished to be. There are many tasks that do not require a full IDE, not even vscode and sublime just works. Always, consistently, reliably works, is fast and a joy to use.

Zed pretty much copied everything over from Sublime, so it's pretty much on par. Sublime was one of the first editors to have an uncluttered UI without toolbars, but with advanced features, like multi-cursor editing and the command palette. As a long time sublime users, it still feels superior as it gets lots of small details right, like for example when I do Cmd+P to search for files and scroll through the files it will show a preview, Zed doesn't show a preview until you actually select the file.

I’m using Zed, but I honestly can’t recommend it to anyone yet. They claim 1.0 but in reality it’s still beta software. It is fundamentally broken in how it deals with the file system so the project panel and git panel can easily miss changes, and it’s still not clear if they’ll even address it.

At least it seems the next release might fix the bug where the git panel will jump to a different repo when you click on a file in it. They should seriously have fixed basic stuff like that before releasing 1.0. But they got in lots of cosmetic changes to the markdown viewer.. they really need to consider their priorities

Zed has no real plugins, and its core isn't as advanced enough as to not require them (though given the infinity of workflow variety, unlikely to ever be), it's bloated in comparison, and has a few more broken basics (like not properly tracking externally changed files)

Don't have any metrics or anything, but I use both, and anecdotally, I feel like Sublime is snappier and gives me better battery life.

Sublime Text is not aligned with an 'any minute now' pivot to enshittification.

And whatever it does, it does better than Zed, debatably.

I started using Zed daily about 6 months ago after 10 years of VS Code. VS Code was having idiotic regressions (like randomly inserting a copy of the final line of a file on save) while they were busy pumping out AI features.

Turns out, Zed is also busy pumping out AI features and the code editing experience is degrading. I'm actively shopping for a replacement.

If you need to ask this question, that means there is no difference for you. Just choose one and commit.

Sublime Text doesn't automatically download and run language servers without your consent. Zed does, and last I looked there's no way to turn that behavior off (the devs said it's an intentional decision to make things easier for users). I am personally of the opinion that it isn't acceptable for software to start pulling in other software without my consent, so I avoid Zed like the plague. The Gram fork of Zed is pretty good, though.

Most plugins just work in Python 3.14. Python didn't break backwards compatibility that much.

Different horses for different courses? I wouldn't open a 100MB logfile in VS Code, but ST or Zed handle that fine. I use all three, though my ST license was for a version or two back, so I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-file-don't-need-any-bells-and-whistles tasks.

I worked in VSC for 7 years and went back to Sublime Text today! VSC became so slow and overreaching..

Thanks, we've got a fix for this in the works.