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Sublime Text

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Powerful editor blending code, markup, and prose editing with enhanced features like multi-tab selection, side-by-side definition viewing, and multiple selection tools for swift code navigation.

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Customizable
  3.  Clean design
  4.  Distraction-free

Features

  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  2.  Package Control
  3.  Syntax Highlighting
  4.  Multiple Cursors
  5.  Text editing
  6.  Auto-Refresh
  7.  Simple text editor
  8.  No Tracking
  9.  Tabbed interface
  10.  Plugin manager
  11. Git icon  Git integration
  12.  Dark Mode
  13.  Plugin API
  14.  Support for MarkDown
  15.  Works Offline
  16. Git icon  Git Support
  17.  Autocompletion
  18.  Full-Text Search
  19.  Code Formatting
  20.  Ad-free
  21.  Portable
  22.  Configuration Management
  23.  Fullscreen support
  24.  High-dpi support
  25.  Font Ligature Support
  26.  Scriptwriting Assistant
  27.  CPU&GPU Rendering
  28.  Directory structure
  29.  Auto-saving
  30.  Memory footprint
  31.  Automatic packaging
  32.  Multi-selection
  33.  Split-screen view
  34.  Minimap
  35.  Code Completion
  36.  Side-by-Side View

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Comment summary: Sublime Text is highly regarded for its cross-platform capabilities, speed, and ease of use, with many users praising its efficiency, customization options, and plugin features. However, some comments express frustration over the price and licensing model, while others note limitations like poor support for certain file encodings and lack of advanced features found in other editors like IntelliSense and Git integration. Despite this, it remains a favorite among many developers seeking a lightweight and powerful text editor.
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Top positive comment •Mar 14, 2019

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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Whaaa, never had any encoding issues O_o And I think VSCode is just a bloatware in comparison. It can't be compared to Sublime Text at all. A much better comparsion would be Atom editor.

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Top negative comment •Jun 8, 2022

Annoying popups for update and upgrade many times a day is really stupid shitty solution.

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Positive comment •Oct 3, 2024

My original go to editor. I really like it because it's got a simple UI, fast, extensible and configurable. I did have the licence for Sublime Text 2, but it looks like I need to upgrade it for Text 3.

I have been gravitating towards VSCodium, unfortunately, as the Markdown preview capabilities are a little sluggish. Plus, it's pretty much comparable and open source.

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Positive comment •Sep 27, 2023

It looks really good and has great features, but sadly it's not open source.

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Positive comment •Apr 15, 2023

A smooth user experience.

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Positive comment •Nov 18, 2022

I think this is really a very lightweight software, with many plug-ins and everything you want. It's a good software

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What is Sublime Text?

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.

Effortlessly split panes and navigate between code

With the new Tab Multi-Select functionality, tabs become first-class citizens in the interface. A simple modifier when performing actions will split the interface to show multiple tabs at once. Works with the side bar, tab bar, Goto Anything and more!

Side-by-side mode for definitions

The Definitions popup now supports side-by-side mode via the icon, or holding Ctrl while clicking a link. Goto Definition, Goto Reference and Goto Symbol in Project also support side-by-side viewing. Explore the full definition, not just a summary in a small popup.

View definitions in auto complete

When an auto-complete word is a symbol with a definition, click the Definition link, or pressing F12 will open the definition to the right. When focus returns to the original file, the auto complete window will return to its last state.

Use multiple selections to rename variables quickly

Here Ctrl+D is used to select the next occurrence of the current word. Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D will skip an occurence. Once created, each selection allows for full-featured editing.

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Sublime Text information

  • Developed by

    Sublime HQ Pty Ltd

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $99.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.1 (81 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    195 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 75 comments and reviews about Sublime Text, and it has gotten 2009 likes

Sublime Text was added to AlternativeTo by sschueller on Sep 13, 2009 and this page was last updated Oct 10, 2024. Sublime Text is sometimes referred to as Sublime.