Please help me with my confusion. Compare and contrast sumblime text to treehouse workspaces.

Chris,

I had never used sublime before until now. So, thanks for introducing it to me. It is pretty amazing! It works great as a text editor. I typed up some java code, saved it as a java file, and then brought up terminal (OSX) to use the javac and java commands. That works fine for me that way. However, when I went to show console within sublime, I ran into what I think are the same issue as you. Therefore, I needed to do some research to see if we could run our java code here somehow.

Things I found:

1) It is documented that java.io.Console will not work within Sublime 2. The same goes for IDE's anyhow though, so it is a good practice to use System.out.print/println/printf & Scanner(System.in) anyhow. You can still go through the entire java track and just change console to them.

2) It is also documented that sublime 2 console will not work with any code that requires input like console.readLine or Scanner(System.in)

3) I found a way to alter the preferences so that you can use the Command + B shortcut to compile and run my java within sublime. However, considering issue number 2, it will not run anything that uses input. Rather pointless in my opinion.

Check out :

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=sublime+text+input&s=adbf5600-c2ee-43ae-94e0-eb7bbcc5781d

Therefore, I recommend just using Terminal on OSX or CMD Prompt on Windows. You can have Sublime 2 and the Terminal up side by side and work quickly between them. Furthermore, the console code works when done in terminal. You can use console with the java tracks or switch to System.out etc.

Sublime should automatically detect that you are writing java code for syntax highlighting etc and you still get all the features for snippets and shortcuts. However, if it doesn't, you can go to view -> syntax -> java -> java.

If you want to try out the build/run yourself, you can do the following:

By default, you should be able to use the Command + B shortcut to build it. However, it will not run it.

With sublime running: Move your cursor to the top left of your screen over 'Sublime Text 2' and left-click.

Move cursor over preferences and left-click on 'Browse Packages'

Left-click on the Java folder

Scroll through the files until you find 'javaC.sublime-build'

Drag and drop that file into sublime for editing.

Replace what is there with the following:

       {
        "cmd": ["javac \"$file_name\" && java \"$file_base_name\""],
        "shell": true,
        "file_regex": "^(...*?):([0-9]*):?([0-9]*)",
        "selector": "source.java"
       }

Command + S to save

Close out of sublime completely and restart it.

You should now be able to build and run java within sublime as long as it is not using java.io.Console or any input. Again, I recommend using terminal with Sublime2. However, if anyone else finds a solution for the known input issue, that would great too.

Regards,

Chris