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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

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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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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.
  • Free editor means saving.
  • Great community support makes it easy to find solution to errors.
  • Does not need any high-tech system to run.
  • UI does not make you tired even after long hours.
On certain levels all have certain pros and cons but Sublime has community support and a huge future ahead due to its features, making it lead all the others.
We generally do not need to contact their customer care as the great commjnuty support solves all its problems.
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Web Development, Software Development
  • Debugging
  • Development
  • Integration
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Third-party Reviews
  • no training
It's very similar to other editors. It just has many additional features and even those are not that hard to learn.
It is so lightweight that it can run even on older PCs.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
It was so easy that first thing most people do is to modify interface without even knowing how to use it.
No - we have not done any custom code
  • Multi-Cursor
  • Tab/Space Grouping
  • Tab View
  • Find-Replace on Multiple Page
  • Hide/Show whole module
  • Multiline comment shorcuts
  • Auto Syntax Prediction
  • Plugin integration
No
Easy to use with bunch of useful and never seen features that are quite self-explanatory and can be very helpful in completing your project much sooner.
It has many handy hacks and shortcuts which enhances its performace.
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • Javascript widgets
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.
  • It has improved production a lot. Programmers are able to code faster and solve many things thanks to this application.
  • The only negative impact is the initial learning curve. It's hard to learn the shortcuts and start to work with it.
  • Atom
  • Komodo Edit
  • Notepad++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Sublime text is the fastest code editor that's multiplatform. You can have a single configuration file among all OS and have the same plugins everywhere. ST offers many things that other editors don't or do it no so good, like: multi-cursor editing, search anywhere, navigate trough code using only your keyboard.

Sublime was selected over open source solutions because it's fast, it improves productivity and has a great library of add-ons to improve its functionality. It has no competition when working with huge projects because ST won't make your PC slow.
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All of them are web developers, they work in multiple projects and use a lot of different technologies.
There's no need for support. Everybody is able to learn and use the software by themselves.
  • Edit fragment of code really fast
  • Edit big SQL files or big text files
I love this application. It has helped to improve my work. Also, I became so used to the shortcuts that It's hard for me to change to another editor.
Yes
It replaced Komodo editor. It didn't work well on Windows and had poor support for modern languages (in 2012). AlsoKomododo wasn't as fast as Sublime and didn't have so many add-ons like Sublime Text.

I didn't want to replace it. I was looking for alternatives and I liked it so much that I wanted to migrate to Sublime Text.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Third-party Reviews
I use multiple operating system, its license allowed me to buy a single license and use it on my Windows, Linux, macOs machines without paying anything else. Also it worked amazing on Linux and it's multi-cursor feature (I think no many editors had it at 2012) attract me to improve my development flow.
I think I would do the same tests. Maybe retry it with modern code because technologies have changed a lot since I started to use Sublime Text.
I wrote them multiple times through email and they have replied fast and in both cases, my issues got resolved without any problems. I didn't need to write multiple times. Just one time.
No
My boss bought me the license by mistake. It was with his name but my email. I wrote them to change the licensee's name and they agreed without asking a bunch of questions.
  • Replacing multiple code sections at the same time without using the mouse is really easy.
  • It's elegant to navigate through the source code with only shortcuts.
  • It's easy to search and install new add-ons from the dialog menu.
  • Sometimes search becomes hard to use on complex or big projects. It can include some undesired files and throw more results than needed.
  • Configure projects: there's no UI for it and you'll need to edit configuration files to do it.
  • Debug! This editor is not debugging friendly at all. It has poor support.
No
It has a big initial learning curve. At first, it is hard to learn all the required keyboard shortcuts and to know what plugins to install to improve your work.
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