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    Sublime Text

    • Paid • Proprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

    Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free without an expiration time limit, however a license must be purchased for continued use.
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • Lightweight
    • Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    • Package Control
    • Customizable
    • Syntax Highlighting
    • Multiple cursors
    • Text editing
    • Plugins
    • Package Manager
    • Font Ligature Support
    • Simple text editor
    • Code review
    • Clean design
    • High-dpi support
    • Plugin manager
    • Code syntax highlighting
    • Configuration Management
    • Git integration
    • Python
    • Scriptwriting Assistant

    Comments and Reviews Post a comment / reviewSort: relevance • date

    insidesystem67693
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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
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    I have mixed feelings about this editor, unfortunately...
    I love it and I hate it at the same time.

    Why I love this editor:

    • Because of this editor very fast and comfortable for me, it's faster almost any other competitor except maybe Notepad++ and UltraEdit in terms of performance...
    • It's increases my productivity in 20-30-100x times (not kidding here) if compared to any other alternative. I can super easy and fast do really crazy stuff while working with this editor.
    • It has really awesome plugins, and themes, it really has a lot of built-in features which saves tons of time, solving tons of issues, helping really a lot in work.

    BUT! I hate this editor too, because of:

    • Lack of support of different encoding like Korean, Japanese, Russian (cp1251) and really weird implementation of detecting these encodings...
    • Because of python in core sometimes it slowdown really too much for specific files some things like searching, editing, etc, while other editors do the job well...
    • Sublime Text in 2019 - losing the competition to VSCode, Atom, and other hipsters editors for really a lot of really interesting things like themes, new plugins, community. Really a lot of people moved away from Sublime to VSCode... Also, for me very sad to see when already a lot of plugins and themes and features abandoned.
    • VSCode has really powerful features like IntelliSense for different languages, and Sublime Text really needs it too (debugger, IntelliSense, and integration with many tools for faster and easier coding, writing code, etc with a lot of useful and correct suggestions...)
    • Lack of Git support and integration like in VSCode
    • Really weird installation of plugins and themes, no preview thing and centralized inside editor page with previews how plugins/themes look like. I forced to open a foreign repository just to read what I need.

    Sad, but if the thing will continue to be like it is right now - the editor will die really soon...

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    jackeryfunke20441
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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 4 users agree • 0 replies
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    Fast, a lot of plugins, no useless stuffs

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    Eo
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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 2 users agree • 0 replies
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    While most will just use it and put up with the "you're using a trial, please buy the license."

    You don't charge dirty, poor programmers $60 for a text editor. No matter how good it is, you'll just scare away the peasants to something murdering them inside such as Notepad++. Trust me, the editor is brilliant and is totally worth switching to if all you use if simple stuff. Arguably better than even Textmate, perhaps.

    Try it, you might be surprised.

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    Ro
    Comment • more than a year ago • 3 users agree and 1 doesn't • 1 reply
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    Saw "Free", then I saw "Purchase A License".

    shinjiku

    In part its still free. Just you will get the annoying purchase dialog here and there. But the software is rather free to use with no visible limitations. So "Purchase A License" is not a major concern. Aldo I love Sublime Text 3 I still think Notepad++ is much better do to the sole reason it has a build in FTP.

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    Ch
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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 2 users agree • 0 replies
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    It's open source and I can easily find a license on the web for #2

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 61 comments and reviews about Sublime Text, and it has gotten 1884 likes

    • Developed by Jon Skinner
    • Proprietary and Commercial product.
    • One time purchase (perpetual license) that cost about $80.
    • Average rating of 3.962264
    • 173 alternatives listed

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    Sublime Text was added to AlternativeTo by on Sep 13, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 18, 2020. Sublime Text is sometimes referred to as Sublime.
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