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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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Business

$80.00

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • 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
  • Lightweight application.
  • Multi package support
  • Long projects handling
  • Multi files viewing in single window
  • Cannot close all tabs in single shot
  • User interface can be improved
  • The user's profile is missing.
July 27, 2022

Easy on the Eyes

Elizabeth McDaniel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-Friendly and Intuitive – it's a pretty simple and straight forward software that doesn't take much to learn how to use.
  • Aesthetically Pleasing - the design of the program, especially the colors used when a code type is selected, is pleasing to the eye.
  • Makes code more readable – being able to take the whole of a chunk of code and open it up in this software, with the colors indicating types of elements within the code, makes it much easier to read the code, locate errors, and do complex work with it.
  • Auto-recognize code type – it would be nice to have it recognize what type of code without manually selecting it every time or even just a default setting for your most commonly used code type.
  • Being able to run/test the code without using another software would be very helpful
  • Invalid code detector – for code like CSS, something that flags anything that isn't a valid standard code type.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Display code in syntax specific color schemes that are customizable.
  • Allow you to do exhaustive searches on entire code directories.
  • Search code in user customizable directories.
  • It is free software but they have an annoying pop up to get you to buy it.
Rajat Khatri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Language Support very good like it supports most of the languages.
  • Autocompletion of Tag and Syntax.
  • Tag and Syntax highlighting.
  • Supports Plugins and integrations.
  • I think their pricing is bit high so they need to look in to this.
  • Cross-platform support need to be improved.
ankit patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very light and boots up instantaneously.
  • It has tons of plugins that will help you to customize sublime entirely according to your needs and thereby is not bloated
  • Package control is really easy to work with and most plugins can be installed in 2 just clicks.
  • Free version has nearly all the features of the paid version.
  • Its User Interface is simple and makes it easy to located many features.
  • It gives you a ton of control over your ide setting through User-settings where you can customize almost everything.
  • The free version keeps bugging to buy and gets irritating(on the contrary buying it is worth it in my opinion)
  • Git integration is clumsy and sometimes glitchy and has room for improvement.
Al Mubassir Muin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Using colorful coding makes it simple to review or write code and accurate code completion.
  • In Sublime Text, there are a lot of shortcuts. It's easy to manipulate text, and we can text package controls to save a lot of time.
  • Fast and efficient, Sublime Text is ideal for working with large datasets. In turn, it enhances the enjoyment we derive from coding.
  • Plugins are easier to use and less complicated but transferring your license to a new computer isn't as simple as it sounds.
  • Sublime has an automatic file comparison feature, but it's challenging to use and should be improved.
  • Adding the ability to mark or highlight the text with different colors would be an excellent application.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • it is fast and light
  • it is reliable, it never crashes
  • its autocomplete feature for languages such as Python or PHP is one of the best in the market
  • detecting automatically JSX syntax may fail, forcing the user to set it manually
  • its git integration has improved, but it may provide more help to the user; [especially] when solving conflicts
Mostafa Dakam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Identifying the different vendor coding within the text.
  • Easy to use and provides many preferences which suits most users's needs.
  • Manipulating text is easy and efficient.
  • The ability to add package controls.
  • You can freely experiance and evaluate the app.
  • You have the option of saving your text with coding such as UTF-8, UTF-16, etc
  • In addition to the ability to manually comparing the text file, Sublime has the feature of automatically comparing the files but it's hard to use and needs to be improved because it's a useful feature.
  • Although Sublime Text has the features of identifying the many vendor's coding, many other vendors' coding can not be identified like Cisco-IOS coding, which would be very useful for writing codes for Cisco devices.
  • Adding the ability to mark or highlight the text with different colors would be nice.
August 20, 2021

Perfect Text Editor

Tigran Petrosyan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • With colorful coding it is extremely easy to review codes or write your own code
  • As I mentioned earlier code completion is really accurate
  • Sublime Text has many shortcuts, which saves you a lot of time
  • Sublime Text is very fast software and does not lag. This makes your coding experience much more enjoyable
  • Sublime Text is perfect for working with large datasets
  • Sublime Text gives you opportunity to customize it and so you can choose the particular theme that fits you the best and much more.
  • It is free to use
  • Free version is constantly "begging" you to buy a license
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sublime Text does an incredible job with appropriate color coding and syntax definitions; makes code extremely readable
  • Tab selection is very well done; easy to see which files have been changed and to compare across multiple files
  • Auto-complete is surprisingly effective and accurate
  • Support for Apple M1 processors already
  • Porting your license to a new machine isn't easy
  • Syntax awareness can get a bit buggy in particular context situations (i.e. django variables inside javascript)
  • Can be a bit of a pain to navigate the myriad settings
July 05, 2021

Simply Sublime

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's lightweight so it isn't clunky or slow.
  • It's flexible; you can add or remove plugins to use it how it best suits you.
  • You can integrate compilers with it.
  • You have to add plugins to make it a functional IDE (it isn't an IDE out of the box).
  • You do need to research to find the right plugin(s) for your use case(s).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The biggest advantage over many other editors is the ability to open large files. Some editors just can't open a CSV with millions of lines but Sublime Text does it like a champ.
  • Multiple selections let you change or create many instances of the same variable or value with ease.
  • The Goto Anything simplifies navigation and lets you control, open, or move within files without ever having to take your hands off the keyboard.
  • Likewise, the command palette allows you to access any of the application's functionality right from the keyboard.
  • It is highly customizable with a rich ecosystem of third party plugins and the ability to create your own.
  • In a world of free and open text editors, Sublime Text does ask for donations. You can use the product freely with only a very infrequent popup asking for donations. You can use it however long you like without paying, but it is well worth it to donate to.
  • People not used to the functionality may need a bit of time to get up to speed using the documentation.
  • An integrated terminal would be nice, but that is just a quibble. It's hard to find many cons with Sublime Text.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sublime Text is powerful where you need it to be, but simple and out of your way at the same time.
  • Great keyboard shortcuts and multi-selection options
  • Great package manager installation process for easily extending functionality
  • Not exactly a con, but some organizations like ours may have a reason for continuing to use a more complex IDE along with a tool like Sublime for certain tasks. Though I don't think anyone on our team would want Sublime to turn into a bloated IDE.
  • Sublime Text has created a separate product called Sublime Merge that acts as a version control GUI. Personally I don't use this, but I would want to if it was built-into Sublime Text as a single app. It isn't the extra cost that is the issue, rather that I would personally prefer Sublime Merge to optionally be able to be run inside a separate pane in the current sublime window. We use a JetBrains IDE that provides a version control tool built into the same app as the code editor. This is a minor issue, and I respect that some customers prefer the separate apps.
Yaniv Vararu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Analyzing large amount of texts like logs is easy due to good searching capabilities
  • Updating big text files is quite easy due to very useful and flexible "find & replace" capabilities
  • The software is super lightweight and is not being "felt" at all in terms of performance
  • When saving files (at least on mac), the files' extensions are missing unless you specifically type them
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Running Scripts on the Server is very easy because most of the servers support Sublime Text.
  • Code completion makes it easy to write productive code.
  • There are many themes available to chose from which makes it an ideal code editor.
  • Frequent updates makes it free from [...] bugs and [...] [the] latest patches improves [its] performance.
  • It is [a] perfect IDE in it's own way. It should contains more extensions and plugins to make it easier for building projects.
Divyang Sabhadiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Has a free version.
  • Text highlights are great for debugging.
  • Better find-replace feature than others.
  • Can easily work with multiple projects without confusion.
  • Accurate syntax suggestions.
  • Less and complicated plugins.
  • Formatting a large document file can be confusing.
  • Often prompts to purchase a new version.
  • No auto-saving a document.
  • Cannot highlight a particular portion of text.
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