{"id":592,"date":"2021-05-31T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=592"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:21:33","slug":"text-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Text Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, I&#8217;ve been using\u00a0<strong>Sublime Text<\/strong> as my main text editor. It&#8217;s got a nice UI, it works on all of my platforms, and the license is user-based, meaning that a single license can be shared on any machine I happen to work on, provided the user is me. It didn&#8217;t cost an arm and a leg either.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the app asked if I wanted to update. It&#8217;s done it every now and then, so I was expecting\u00a0another bugfix and thought little more of it. I just hit Update. The app was upgraded from version 3 to version 4, however, and an all-caps text on the title bar said &#8220;LICENSE UPGRADE REQUIRED&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Say what?!?<\/p>\n<p>A version upgrade that costs money is fine by me but something I want to know about\u00a0<em>before<\/em> I upgrade, not after. There should have been something pointing this out, allowing me to decide if I wanted the hassle now or later. Instead, I\u00a0now need to downgrade if I want to keep the app.<\/p>\n<p>This is not OK, so I&#8217;m now moving to\u00a0<strong>Atom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, I&#8217;ve been using\u00a0Sublime Text as my main text editor. It&#8217;s got a nice UI, it works on all of my platforms, and the license is user-based, meaning that a single license can be shared on any machine I happen to work on, provided the user is me. It didn&#8217;t cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}