Sublime Text is a powerful, versatile, and lightweight text editor
Updated January 28, 2020

Sublime Text is a powerful, versatile, and lightweight text editor

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Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sublime Text

Sublime Text is primarily used by our programmers as a lightweight code and content editor. It allows routine text and document modification tasks to be scripted and automated, saving countless hours of text manipulation. Unlike many IDEs that are designed to work with a specific set of programming languages, Sublime Text supports almost any programming language—those that aren't supported out of the box can be supported with help from a third-party plugin.

Pros

  • Automation: Users can quickly complete tasks using regular expressions and scripts that would otherwise take hours by hand.
  • Code Editing: Sublime Text provides highlighting and basic code formatting support for a wide variety of languages.

Cons

  • Code Completion: Unlike many traditional IDEs, code completion support in Sublime Text is lacking, which means it may not be the best choice for new employees.
  • Hidden Features: Most of the best features are hidden in context menus or behind shortcuts. Users will need to take time to learn these and explore the software.
  • Sublime Text has reduced the time spent by technical staff on editing and searching text documents.
  • Developers are able to quickly begin working with code in a wide variety of languages.
Sublime Text is powerful, stable, versatile, and lightweight. It's also very affordable, with straightforward licensing terms. Many of the other options that we explored met some of these qualifications, but only Sublime Text checks all of those boxes. For example, NetBeans and Eclipse are great for Java programming, but not for general text editing, nor for some of the other languages that our developers use.
Support seems to be somewhat limited, which is understandable given the inexpensive licensing cost. Detailed documentation (both official and unofficial) is also available to help work through issues or learn about new features. Because Sublime Text is widely used, there are many communities online that provide great unofficial support. Additionally, many of the available 3rd party plugins are supported more extensively.

Do you think Sublime Text delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sublime Text's feature set?

Yes

Did Sublime Text live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sublime Text go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sublime Text again?

Yes

If your team does a lot of development and/or programming work, seasoned employees will likely appreciate the feature set of Sublime Text. Teams that need to edit complex text-only documents (without formatting) will likely be able to save time using automation scripts. On the other hand, if your team requires rich text formatting when editing documents, or is made up of new programmers with limited experience, you may benefit more from a traditional office document editor or standard IDE.

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