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Sublime Text

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What is Sublime Text?

Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.

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Sublime Text is a versatile text editor that is widely used by various organizations for different purposes. Users highly recommend it for …
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My Sublime Text Review

7 out of 10
April 24, 2022
Sublime Text is one of the largest Text Editors with IDE and is one of the underrated Text Editors as a developer I have used so many …
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Simply Sublime

10 out of 10
July 05, 2021
Incentivized
Several teams in my department use Sublime Text as a code editor in addition to using Visual Studio or Visual Code. Sublime Text has the …
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$80.00

Cloud

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Sublime Text are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Sublime Text is a versatile text editor that is widely used by various organizations for different purposes. Users highly recommend it for coding needs, such as PHP, web development, Python, and Lua. It helps visualize code components, identify errors, and maintain a clean code base. With its powerful features, Sublime Text is utilized by the Research and Development department to analyze large amounts of texts, search for similarities or irregularities, and update big text files efficiently. In addition to software development, users rely on Sublime Text for searching the filesystem, finding specific information, and performing batch operations on files. Its small size, lightness, large community of developers, and useful plugins make it a preferred choice for smaller websites with custom code. Furthermore, Sublime Text is commonly used in IT departments for text manipulation, web development, systems administration, and help desk operations. Marketing roles also find it beneficial to modify HTML files without the need to understand complex IDEs. The software allows quick changes and efficient meeting of demands in writing code for websites. Sublime Text proves to be invaluable in custom development shop workflows due to its advanced features that other applications like Notepad cannot deliver. It excels at writing queries, organizing thoughts, and viewing/editing files without corrupting their structure. With support for different languages/technologies and streamlined navigation, Sublime Text is highly regarded as one of the best text editors for software development. It solves the business problem of having to pay for an IDE by providing a single IDE for coding across multiple languages. Organizations officially recommend Sublime Text as their developer IDE to ensure a consistent developer environment supporting a variety of languages. The free version offers almost all the features available in the paid version. Users appreciate its speed, reliability, and extensive plugin market that enhances functionality without compromising performance. While some users may use other code editors alongside Sublime Text, they value its lightweight nature and flexibility for different use cases. Students in middle school technology classes also utilize Sublime Text for writing code in web design and Python. Engineers often rely on additional plugins to perform quick text manipulation tasks. Sublime Text proves to be useful for taking notes, parsing text files, and writing short scripts in various languages. Users find its interface clear and legible, making it one of the top choices among text editors. Developers frequently choose Sublime Text over other publicly available text editor tools, particularly for specific types of development work involving languages like Python, SQL, R, and data science-related tasks. Its ease of installation, setup, and extensibility through plugins makes Sublime Text a valuable tool for developers. One of the standout features is its multiline editing capability, which is particularly appreciated for tasks like reformatting and working with the syntax of a language. Whether it's writing, editing, or fixing HTML and CSS code, coding on GitHub repositories, or simply using it as a notepad for making notes, Sublime Text proves to be versatile and reliable. Its flexibility and customization options make it a top choice among users who rely on it as their primary text editor for viewing source files and navigating code.

Overall, Sublime Text has earned its reputation as one of the best text editors for software development. It supports a wide range of languages and technologies, streamlines navigation, reduces time spent on repetitive tasks, and allows users to focus on the parts that require thought. With its small size, extensive plugin market, and powerful features that enhance productivity and efficiency without compromising performance, Sublime Text continues to be an indispensable tool for professionals in various fields such as software development, data analysis, web design, and more.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sublime Text is a very lightweight application that runs smoothly on every system. It is very easy to code in all PHP frameworks and core PHP using it, so I recommend it. I have worked on 10 projects in Sublime Text so far, so now I find it very easy to use.
Leonardo Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Sublime Text, while being lighter-weight than an IDE, still supports many IDE features.

  • Text from the current file is used to provide autocomplete.
  • Project Support (folder browsing, scoped history, build-system declarations).
  • Refactoring support is emulated through multi-select, project-wide find and replace, and regular expression search.
  • Syntax-aware selection and GoTo for quickly jumping to locations in the project.
  • Snippets and Macros.
  • A Python console for everything else.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used a lot of different notepad solutions to write code, but Sublime Text has always been the best. Especially the syntax with coloring for different code languages is amazing. I never want to switch again.
In the past, I used different notepad solutions to do mass find and and replace (for multiple open files) but that also works good with Sublime Text.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is well suited for note-taking. Syntax highlighting helps developers quickly view and understand the code. When considering other editors which are offered free, Sublime Text has to frequently improve and upgrade against its competitors. Support for an integrated terminal in Sublime Text would be a nice-to-have feature.
July 27, 2022

Easy on the Eyes

Elizabeth McDaniel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My CMS has a small window in which I can edit custom HTML/CSS. It can be expanded some, but not as much as I would like. It also displays all code as dark text on a white background. On a page where I am doing extensive custom coding, it is helpful to see it in a larger window and in a color-coded display so that I don't have to strain my eyes as hard. Especially when I'm trying to scan for specific elements and target issues and so that I don't have to scroll endlessly in a tiny window.
Rajat Khatri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Well suited experience is that can work on one IDE for my different projects, and Syntax and Tag highlighting helps in writing well-structured code. Less appropriate scenarios, I personally did not dislike anything as such but they can improve their User Interface and can make it a more interactive user experience and they can promote their product more than everyone gets to know about this amazing Editor.
ankit patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is suitable for all situations. However, I would recommend Visual Studio for c++ if you don't mind a bloated IDE. It is, however, best suited for javascript since it even allows you to get node-based output in the terminal, which makes work a lot faster.
Al Mubassir Muin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In comparison to other text editors, Sublime is a lot more capable. Sublime has useful features like multiple line editing, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and file searching. In separate windows, you can work on several projects simultaneously. Flexibility and multitasking are enabled. Sublime Text is a helpful tool for anyone who works in programming or IT, according to my experience. Even if you work for a large or small company, it doesn't matter. Programming can be fun if you know what you're doing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are a junior software developer that does not know what code editor to use or a senior one that is looking for a change, sublime is the best one in the market. I have been using it for more than 6 years and has never disappointed me. I have tried others like VSCode but I always return to Sublime.
Mostafa Dakam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
From my experience, I think Sublime Text would be very useful for any programmer or IT staff whose work involves writing text coding. I guess it would also be useful for accounting and data analyzing work, as it has many features and add-ons which suit such work needs. I think less useful for working with formal letters, or official documents for example.
August 20, 2021

Perfect Text Editor

Tigran Petrosyan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I will recommend Sublime Text to anyone. In my opinion, Sublime Text is well suited for everybody in any scenario. First of all, it does not matter if you are working in a big company or a small company as it has a free version, so everyone has access to it. Also it is a very fast software, which has everything necessary for you to have an enjoyable coding experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is literally the perfect text editor for coding on a Mac. It's lightweight, intuitive, easy to use, and easy to customize. The free trial "period" is exceptionally generous, and surprisingly noninvasive. Options like seeing which files have changed, and which files have unsaved changes, have saved me countless hours of pulling my hair out over bugs. New versions also have some amazing git integrations and other features that I haven't used but I'm sure are very handy too!
July 05, 2021

Simply Sublime

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's very fast, and out of the box, it's minimalistic and easy to use. It's great for a text editor, and it's great for configuring your own IDE, but it does take some research to find the right plugins and modifications for your needs. It also works on Mac OS or Windows, which is nice.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Anybody who needs a text editor to handle the structured files in software development and its associated fields needs to have Sublime Text (and probably already does). This isn't a word processor though, and can't do fancy fonts, document structure, and styling of such a program. It was created to wrangle plain text and it does it better than anything else.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is well suited for multi-language projects that require rapid prototyping. For example, creation of a react application with a python backend can be stubbed out rather quickly. It is less suited for projects that are dedicated to a particular stack such as a C# enterprise-level application, of which Visual Studio would be more appropriate.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When writing code or using it for any other text editing, it highlights different text in different colors which makes it nice when you want to see separation in the text. Because of this, it is easy to use and has several different uses. At the bottom of the editor, it also shows the language being used which is nice if you have several files written in different languages.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a developer, it can be really useful for writing code, especially if you have a machine that has less memory. If I'm not wrong, Sublime is written in c++ which makes it very fast on any platform, especially compared to modern text editors like Visual Studio Code or Atom, which rely on web technologies. Also, it can open any text-based file format so one can use it to quickly view files.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is the best text editing tool, especially for working on web-based software products. If your organization is working with iOS apps, or native applications, then Sublime Text might not be the tool you need, but this is likely obvious, as Sublime Text is not designed for this kind of use.
Yaniv Vararu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime [Text] is well suited:
  • when you need to take notes fast and with no text formatting
  • when you need to write some scripts or pseudo-code with no need of a "heavy compiler"
  • when you need to research a large amount of text (search for repetitions or irregularities)
  • when you need to update a big text file (find & replace, or just use a software that doesn't "hang")
Sudha Govindaraju | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text does great at highlighting different types of texts. It supports multiple programming languages and one can always choose a programming language before editing the text so Sublime Text shows the syntax in that language.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is very easy to use. Even [novices] and [professionals] [...] can use this Editor to build complex projects. Since it is free to use, [...] I would like to recommend this editor to all the developers who love to code on simple, but elegant Code Editor. After Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text earns my highest recommendation for development purposes.
Divyang Sabhadiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Highly recommended for beginners as this tool can boost their developing much with its in-built tools that make learning fun and easy. Even professionals do not need to memorise certain syntax and with some shortcuts coding or developing environment can be made faster than usual.
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