Every time I come to this forum

I end up trying to shut down Windows with Ctrl-Shift-F12, save with F3 and can’t find anything on SublimeText’s menus.

When I do something stupid like calling a SWI in SVC mode without saving R14 first, I end up swearing in various languages when Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn’t work, and Zap never saves stuff when I ^S, it does something else, never mind ^F…

Don’t get me started on the eccentric copy/paste where ^C is immediate and ^V moves. Thank God for ^Z, no, wait, I mean F8. Aaargh!

;-)

[I] can’t find anything on SublimeText’s menus

I’ve spent a long time getting SublimeText working like Zap. In fact, in most ways I now think it’s better (gasp!). I actually need to get my Zap configuration changed now so it’s more like ST! :)

Have you used the multi-cursor feature in Sublime yet?

Invaluable I find… especially with the auto-number insert feature (incrementing with padding across the multi-cursor).

Only issue I HATE is it’s auto update feature, some points it complains saying I need to install the latest, and then REFUSES to start if I ignore it long enough!

If you get Zap configured like Sublime, could you share how you did it ;@)

Have you used the multi-cursor feature in Sublime yet?

All the time – also useful when combined with my “run the selection through the Python expression evaluator” add-on. I can convert a load of expressions into their values in one go.

I could share what I did, sure – it’s mostly about the key mappings and syntax colouring – but I strongly suspect my Zap configuration is non-standard, too! For example, in Zap (and sublime) I have things like “ctrl+I – delete from caret to last character on line (leaving that char)”. If I find half an hour I’ll document what I did and then upload something somewhere and post a link.

Note: this is all SublimeText 2 (no idea how my stuff will work in ST3).

It’s true that ST is pretty good, but the ability to have multiple views onto the same buffer in different modes is possibly unique to Zap.

ctrl+I – delete from caret to last character on line (leaving that char

Obscure! I’ve recently changed Ctrl-I in Zap to be incremental search, thanks to Visual Studio. The RO program I use the most, my labelling disassembler, accepts both RO and Windows style hotkeys. It’s only a matter of time before I have to make Ctrl-S universal.

Apologies, ancient Acorn archaeologists!

ST2 to ST3 was slightly awkward ISTR. I had to massage a few syntax modes I recall. The biggest difficulty though is that its constituent files are much more obfuscated – built-in modes are a right pain to find and edit for example.

Obscure!

Yep. Comes from using Python and BASIC a lot where I’m editing (for example) a PRINT “blah blah” and I want to change the text but don’t want to delete that " at the end. In ST2, at some point I’ll make it a plug-in that’s more smart – because in C you often also have a "; at the end, or ); or even "); and I tend to want to keep all of those chars when I’m doing this type of edit.

The way I write BASIC I’d have 27 other statements after the print anyway. :-/