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Comment by qrbLPHiKpiux | Hacker News Reader

I use it, but I absolutely hate that I can't print from it.

Print? Who does that nowadays with all these great software and large, high resolution displays? I have banned paper from most of my life years ago. It is nice to have a support but it invariably ends up in a non copy-pastable, non searchable pile of junk.

Also, printing from a text editor isn't very sexy, you'd want at least a bit of styling and page layout, and that's well outside the scope of a text editor.

Anyway, your point of view may be different but for that, I think there are packages for printing.

I suppose it wasn't included because it is a rather difficult to do it right and few people are interested. There are many things that can go wrong: OS compatibility, page layout, fonts, color or lack thereof... I implemented printing in software once and was a real PITA.

I thought I was the only one.

Not only Sublime, but nearly all editors these days lack a print feature.

Right - I not only use an editor to code, I like one for notes, to draft text - write notes and letters to others. I find using WORD or similar cumbersome and unnecessary. I've written before that I love plain text as the files are compatible with everything.

Also, in fact, I write out all email in a text editor first, then copy/paste into webmail so the watching eyes don't / can't fingerprint my typing! /little paranoid!

Agreed. But the ExportHtml plugin isn't an entirely horrible workaround, so at least there is a way.

I paid for it and I feel the same.

Yeah, that's crazy.

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