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Evening, all.

Sublime Text

Came across this on MakeUseOf.com earlier on yesterday, and thought some of you guys'n'gals might be interested in it:-

https://www.makeuseof.com/sublime-text-4-is-here/

It needs Python 3 to run. This is almost always available through the PPM/Synaptic/whatever, depending on what you're running. The URL where you can obtain the download - it comes as a .deb package - is here:-

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articl ... ime-text-4

The big blue Download button is up near the top of the page, and again right down at the bottom, below the extensive changelog. Although what you're downloading is basically a 'trial' version, free for the purposes of 'evaluating' (you're expected to eventually purchase a licence at some point), there is, at present, no fixed time placed on the evaluation period. To quote from the downloads page:-

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."

Wouldn't like to speculate as to how long this state of affairs will continue, but it's an interesting alternative to Geany/Nano/Vim/Leafpad, etc.

Mike.

Slight correction.

Closer examination reveals that it's a 'core' binary, enhanced by a Python 3 API to host/execute a multitude of 'plugins'. Seems a slightly odd way of going about things, but.....let the user be the judge, I say.

Mike.

Wouldn't like to speculate as to how long this state of affairs will continue

This has been the case for over a decade now so I would be very surprised if it changed. The sublime people seem to be content to just sell licenses to the people who want them, and ask people to buy a license for a major version upgrade every 4 or 5 years, and everyone else using the free version you get the full features you just get nagged every once in awhile when saving files (which is annoying but nothing else). its like winrar i guess in that way. idk i have never bought it and usually use vim but but it is a nice text editor