Sublime Text, while being a lightweight text editor, provides powerful IDE-like features, Python scripting, and the ability to customize every aspect of the editor itself, letting users code and refactor with speed and efficiency.Sublime Text, while being a lightweight text editor, provides powerful IDE-like features, Python scripting, and the ability to customize every aspect of the editor itself, letting users code and refactor with speed and efficiency.Distraction free editing mode: Distraction-free editing takes over your screen and removes every UI element so you can focus on code. | Has tons of plugins available | Multiple languages are supported | IDE features without the cruft: Sublime Text, while being lighter-weight than an IDE, still supports many IDE features. · - Text from the current file is used to provide autocomplete. · - Project Support (folder browsing, scoped history, build-system declarations). · - Refactoring support is emulated through multi-select, project-wide find and replace, and regular expression search. · - Syntax-aware selection and GoTo for quickly jumping to locations in the project. · - Snippets and Macros. · - A Python console for everything else. | Consistent cross-platform: Sublime Text looks consistently the same across Windows, OS X, and Linux. | Beginner-friendly: When you start using Sublime Text, it doesn't drown you in keyboard shortcuts or non-intuitive use-concepts. However, high-level functionality can still be easily accessed when the need for it arises. | Multi-line select and editing: Multiple cursors and column selection allows for versatile ways of editing. · `ctrl + d` will select the current word and each time the command is repeated, it adds the next occurrence of the word to the selection. · `ctrl + click` or `middle-mouse click` will place another cursor in the place that's clicked. Cursors can then be controlled together. This also permits selecting vertically. · `ctrl + shift + l` will place a cursor on every highlighted line. | Comfortable to work with: Sublime Text has a minimap on the side that provides a top-down view of the file and keyboard shortcuts for most actions. It also supports a large number of languages and general text editing features out of the box. | Not a full IDE: It does not necessarily function on a project level | Offers a command palette: Command Palette allows for fuzzy searching all available settings, snippets, etc. | Permits instant file switching: Open Goto Anything by pressing Ctrl or Command + P and by using fuzzy search you can look for a file in your project. The file will load even without pressing enter, so you can make sure you've found the correct file without committing. | Proprietary: Sublime Text protects and copyrights its code and is thus not the freedom-ware some would like it to be. | Fully customizable: Sublime Text allows for all sorts of customization to help users change almost everything in the editor: Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions, and many more. Essentially, just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files. This system gives the user flexibility as settings can be specified on a per-file type and per-project basis. | Direct server upload: Provides command line shortcut for server upload. | Freemium: A Sublime license can be bought but it can still be used for free. However, a pop-up appears when you save multiple times. | Dynamic Build System: Choose from many build systems or craft your own. | Portable settings: Settings are modular and can be shared. | Installable package manager: The package manager is a plugin and can be swapped with something else custom. | Very fast: Sublime is quick to start and never slows down. The UI is always responsive and you know what is happening in the background. | Easy to get started: All you need to do when starting up is to install a package manager and modify user configuration. | Lightweight: Sublime Text is very lightweight by default. Customization occurs on the fly thanks to Package Control. | Interruption while work: "Purchasing" messages box interrupts while saving file. | Annoying whitespace management: All too often it does the wrong thing with indentation on otherwise blank lines. | Loading big files on Windows is slow: Here's a rough comparison: a 70 MB file takes about 2 seconds to load in Notepad++, whereas the same file in ST3 takes over 10 seconds to load. | Paid: Although paying for something good is far from a Con, having the competition this editor has and still having to pay for it is definitely a Con. | No printing of files: Sublime Texts offers no way of printing the files it edits. | Amazing experience, speed, easy, ease of use, stable, etc... · It's a mini IDE.