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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
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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

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
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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 Small Businesses (1-50 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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August 20, 2021

Perfect Text Editor

Tigran Petrosyan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is used only by some departments in our organization. In our department, we do data scraping using Python. In order to do this, you must know a little bit of HTML and CSS. We use Sublime Text as a text editor to write Python, HTML, and CSS codes as it is very fast, easy to use, and has very good code completion.
  • 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
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 my workhorse text editor. In a world with a myriad of text editors, it really stands out. Editing text can often be a tedious affair filled with lots of repetitive tasks. Sublime Text does an excellent job of streamlining navigation and reducing the amount of time needed to handle these tasks. It removes the helps mitigate the mindless tasks and helps you focus on the parts that require thought.
  • 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.
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.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is an outstanding, lightweight text editor. While a portion of our organization uses a more complex IDE, we all enjoy using Sublime for its speed, efficient design, and simplicity. Marketing roles inside our company that do not normally write code, use Sublime Text to be able to modify HTML files, and we don't have to worry about explaining a complex IDE to them.
  • 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.
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.
Divyang Sabhadiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organisation mainly deals with Web Development Apps so we need an editor that can out point errors and give suggestions about the syntax in different languages even on the same page. It's common to have Java Scripts and PHP along with HTML, CSS on the same page. The best feature about this tool is it makes suggestions to the user about the common syntax on the language that you are working, without any external setting. Other great thing about this tool is its tab view of different pages altogether that makes navigation too easy unlike other competitors. You also have Tree view of the files and folder you are working on the left column for quick works. Moreover it has this feature which almost no other tool has: a "zoomed-out" view of the page pinned to right top corner for pointing a particular portion of module on your thousands of lines of work.
  • 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.
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.
September 30, 2019

A Great Text Editor

Kaleb-John Loo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is useful as a light weight text editor with a lot of powerful functionality. It provides a lot of useful macros and shortcuts to maximize productivity. Individuals can use Sublime Text to organize their files and make edits to their code. It is useful for quickly writing up some scripts or for modifying existing files. Once one gets familiar with all of the functionality Sublime Text provides, it becomes a powerful asset to the engineering development cycle.
  • Lightweight
  • Easy to use
  • Color coordinated highlights
  • Shortcuts and Macros improve efficiency
  • File organization
  • Quick to launch
  • Free to use version constantly prompts user to purchase full version.
  • Different versions of Sublime Text are still used and available meaning you may not be using the latest version.
  • User must setup Sublime Text to their own personal preference before it becomes more useful than other text editors.
Sublime Text is most useful when starting a new project. It is quick to launch and will keep open the files you want to use. It also has the ability to organize and present your files in an intuitive tree that makes structuring your project simpler. From here, you can quickly code the beginnings of your project without the overhead of an IDE. This allows for the ability to write proof of concepts or small projects in little time since Sublime Text has IDE like features that improve efficiency, but you do not have to save projects and wait for an IDE to load the files. Once the project becomes more complex, Sublime Text is a little less ideal when working on the bigger scope of the project where an IDE would be more useful.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is useful across the organization for coding solutions in many different languages including Python. It is light weight and easy to use with a good interface.
  • Supports multiple tabs in one window with strong features such as 'Find and Replace'.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for many features such as Indenting are very useful.
  • Automatic syntax checking and support for various languages.
  • Text compare between two files is not easily accessible and not prominent.
  • PEP-8 coding standard suggestions for Python are not available natively.
  • Debugging Python code is not directly supported.
Good for quick edits with easy in and easy out. Find text feature is really useful in single and multi-file mode. However, the 'Replace' text feature does not work as intended across multiple files.
Charley Allen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our web department uses Sublime Text to write code for the website. It's a great program and is quick to load, so we can make changes fast. Our website is very robust and we receive many requests for special designs and features. Sublime Text helps us meet demands quickly and efficiently.
  • Sublime Text has a great side menu for organizing files. I can quickly see what other files are in my directory so I can keep my information hierarchy clean and efficient.
  • Sublime Text has great built-in tools like Multiple Selections. Multiple Selections allows me to select one variable and change every instance at once instead of searching every line of code.
  • Sublime Text has a fantastic syntax definition tool that automatically creates an index of every class. I can use keyboard shortcuts to work quickly and keep everything organized.
  • Sublime Text doesn't have a print feature. Printing code isn't something I do often, but there are times when that would be very helpful. As of now, I have to copy the code to a text editor and print from there.
  • Sublime Text has a million tools to speed up processes, but no simple way to learn how to use them. An interactive demo or training resource in addition to the documentation would be really nice.
  • Sublime Text changes frequently. Updates and new features are great, but the changelog doesn't always give an in-depth explanation of what was changed and how to use the new features.
Sublime Text is fantastic for writing and editing code. It is by far my favorite program for writing CSS and HTML. However, I know I am not using the program to its full potential because it is difficult to learn how to use the more robust features like finding, running and installing packages to make my work more efficient.
Cameron Renfro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sublime Text as our primary text/code editor for all web and application development. Sublime Text gives us the tools necessary for modern complex development environments. Our primary work is custom WordPress development, and Sublime Text allows us to navigate and stay on top of the thousands of files that make up a modern day website framework.
  • Sublime Text's code syntax highlighting makes navigating lines of code a breeze.
  • The flexibility and customization of Sublime text allow us to tailor its feature set to our specific needs.
  • All developers know how valuable keyboard shortcuts are, and Sublime Text's keyboard navigation and shortcuts system is amazing.
  • Sublime Text is a serious text editor and does come with a learning curve. While it's still great for basic text editing needs, it's more geared towards developers.
  • Because Sublime Text is so customizable, some user-friendliness is lost in the process.
If you are a serious web or application developer, I think Sublime Text is a slam dunk. If you are shy about learning serious developer tools, then you may want to skip Sublime Text and look for something more simple or elementary. Regardless of what language you're writing in, Sublime Text text has you covered.
Chris Putnam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is used by many of our team members to edit code, text, and content within files. It adds productivity and efficiency via its built-in features and the wide range of easily installed plugins. It's popularity and community of users also means there is a large amount of information available to learn about new features and solutions for typical text-editing concerns.
  • A large number of built-in features.
  • Good built-in and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Plugin capabilities and library.
  • Customizability.
  • Intuitiveness - there is a learning curve, especially for non-programmers, in order to get the most benefit from it.
  • Innovation - needs continued development & popularity - continues to be very popular, but other editors are rising quickly.
Plain text file editing is the typical use case - most often for programming, but could also be useful for data entry, processing, mass file updates, etc.

It would NOT be useful for editing any more specialized format - for example, Rich Text, Word/Excel Documents, etc.

It's also a GUI only program. Some programmers may prefer a command line editor, especially for text-editing on a headless server - Vim or Emacs are the most common options for CLI.
January 24, 2019

The best code editor

Miguel Useche | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, it is being used by the Development team to quickly edit source code and work on it. Sometimes we work with small projects or we need to handle huge temporary files and we use Sublime Text because it offers great performance. Also, it doesn't need to create a project and do a big initial configuration to start to work, just open the app and start working.

It solves the problem of working fast on small projects and handling big files.
  • Since it's coded in C++ it opens super fast! Also, it handles big files without any problem and without overloading the machine.
  • Sublime Text allows me to work with multiple languages in a single window. I can have a different configuration for each tab, so it's a great tool to work with for multi-language projects.
  • It offers a great search tool which is fast, simple to use, and really helpful.
  • It has shortcuts for everything. You can work with just the keyboard. There's no need for a mouse because you can do everything from shortcuts.
  • It's very customizable. You can edit a theme, fonts, colors, etc. You can just download configuration files or themes and improve the appearance of the editor.
  • License price and slow development.
  • It has a single console where all output is displayed. Sometimes this is messy when you have multiple plugins installed and all of them throw info into the console.
  • Some add-ons do not offer good documentation. You install them and you don't know where to configure it or start it.
  • There's no UI for the config settings, you have to edit the configuration files. If you brake it, the editor won't work.
It's well suited if you want to have a fast editor, you work with multiple operating systems (because the license is shared among them), or you want to centralize configuration in multiple machines and work with multiple programming languages.

I don't recommend it if you are searching for an editor that does many things in a single application. Remember that this is not an IDE.
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