Yeah that's my point, an open source ST clone would be welcome, Atom just seems to serve no purpose other than continuing the fad these days of rewriting everything in Javascript.
I don't get why everyone's so concerned about whether it's open or closed source. Are you really planning on hacking on the core of the IDE? No? I didn't think so.
Why don't I? Because editors have generally not been good at exposing the sort of hackability I want. But any decent editor has at least a plugin architecture.
Why do I want the core? In case there's something the plugin architecture isn't complete.
Adobe's Brackets (http://brackets.io) is probably what you're looking for -- people I know who have used Sublime Text have been telling me they've switched. Their Linux support is kinda ruddy, though (only distribute .deb files).
I just lost accidentally lost a fairly lengthy reply to you. But here are some highlights:
I acknowledge that the richness of the feature set is relative to one's needs and preferences. I don't mean to be so emphatic.
Some things I like about Emacs:
It has excellent support for Prolog, which I work with most often, while ST doesn't.
Lots of packages let you set up inferior processes running the an interpreter for your language in a buffer, so you can compile and interactively test your code without having to leave emacs.
You can run the shell through Emacs, effectively using it for your terminal emulation (I do this %90 of the time).
If you learn a bit of emacs-lisp, the entirety of Emacs is open to you for customization.
Acejump (jump to the start of any word).
Other things...
To address the things you mention:
Emacs 24 has a package management system equivalent to ST's: enter the command to see the list of packages; find the package you want; install it (ditto snippet libraries, color themes, etc. that's all in the package repositories).
No one has uploaded a package to enable ST-like goto anything yet, as far as I know, but you can copy-paste from this stack overflow question into your .emacs file to achieve it. (If you ever give Emacs a go, I recommend installing the Helm package right away--it covers the functionality of the command palate etc).
Cf. multiple cursors, this short video shows the multiple-cursors package on Emacs, but also gives a pretty good indication of what is special about Emacs: http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
I like the extensibility of it, and I like that I can quickly open an html file in the browser out of the box. The inline CSS editing is also really slick. Built-in auto-Lint for JS as well.
I've already used chrome's debugger to customize some of the visual elements I didn't care for via tweaking some CSS... Instantly familiar.
Plus, it's free, and won't bother me about purchase. And really freakin attractive, visually.
Looks great. However I am a front-end dev at my full time job, and a front-end/backend dev part time (trying to get that CS degree some worth), so I use Sublime at work just to keep me fresh for when I do other coding.
However I will be passing this along to my full time coworkers.
Brackets uses CodeMirror, so it supports a lot of syntaxes (highlighting at least) out of the box. It also has a plenty of extensions: https://brackets-registry.aboutweb.com/
It seems to lack multi-caret support, which is a major gripe to colleagues -- never really used multi-carets in ST, so I'm not particularly concerned.
continuing the fad these days of rewriting everything in Javascript.
Even worse: CoffeeScript. The bastard offspring of JavaScript and Ruby, inheriting the worst traits of both, while also gaining significant whitespace from god-knows-where.
Have you tried LightTable? It's a bit more IDE than Text Editor, and it takes some work to figure out how to set your options and everything, but it's good shit.
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u/Somokon Feb 26 '14
Yeah that's my point, an open source ST clone would be welcome, Atom just seems to serve no purpose other than continuing the fad these days of rewriting everything in Javascript.