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If you find any bugs with the JavaScript syntax, definitely report them at https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues. As far as I know, our syntax definition is pretty spot…

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2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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y0ssar1an·Sep 13, 2017

If you want git support out of the box, please give me a thumbs up on this PR. https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/pull/1126 If you can read sublime-syntax files, code review is appreciated as well. With this package, you can set Sublime to be your git editor like this: $ cat ~/.gitconfig [core] editor = subl -w ...

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wbond·Mar 24, 2017

Thanks for the feedback! I'll talk to Jon about trying to make the website push people to the forum to see what is going on. We no longer keep compatibility with TextMate in any of the default syntaxes. Everything is now a .sublime-syntax, and has access to all of the advanced stack and scope manipulation features. If you are interested in providing feedback, the packages are at https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages. Tests could be helpful, even if failing. The test syntax is described at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html#testing and scope naming guidelines at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/scope_naming.html.

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trishume·Jan 20, 2017

I set my autocomplete/snippet expansion key to tab (it's a Sublime setting) so that I never have any conflicts. Sublime actually tries harder than other editors to avoid these, but it's not perfect. See for example https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/Ruby/Compl... which stops it from autocompleting on common end of line keywords in Ruby. This wasn't a default in Emacs so I had to spend a couple of hours figuring out how to do this myself before I could do newlines: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/174 I'm not sure there are any editors that have auto-complete on enter but don't have any issues with conflicts.

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