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Reclaim Your Time With Sublime Text
Updated July 01, 2021

Reclaim Your Time With Sublime Text

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Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sublime Text

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.
  • No cost unless you feel the need to support the developers of your own volition.
  • Sublime Text greatly reduces the time needed to edit large and complex files, and time is money.
  • If a user knows what they are doing, it saves you from needing specialized tools to process large files.
This is a programmers tool. As such a lot of the features and benefits are lost on a non-technical user. To get the most out of the tool you need to have a basic crash course in how it works and what it can do. The documentation and community are good, but it takes a bit of time to get up to speed.
There are very good documentation and video resources for getting up to speed with Sublime Text. The community, while not official, is actually a wonderful source of support. There is a lively and responsive forum where you can go for trouble-shooting and feature requests. And there are many users outside of this that offer robust community support. If you search for a Sublime Text question on google, 9 times out of 10 you will find it answered on places like Stack Overflow and you'll be back in business.
Visual Studio Code is nice from a development standpoint in that it offers many of the features of Sublime Text with the addition of an integrated terminal. Brackets likewise offers some of the benefits of Sublime Text with some added HTML specific tools. Both of these products, however, struggle or are unable to deal with large files, and are more specialized to specific tasks. Vim is really unparalleled by anything in existence as far as text editing; if you know it, Vim can feel like thinking. The problem with Vim, however, is that it is almost magical in its functionality. It probably has the steepest learning curve of any text processor in existence. For this reason, Sublime Text brings sophisticated editing to users with a much lower bar to entry.
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.