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Sublime Review
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 09/21/2012 08:58 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
The Tech Report posted a review on the Sublime text editor
Okay, so I never dreamed I'd ever spend $59 on a text editor. I mean, there are perfectly good ones out there that cost absolutely nothing. Some of them are so feature-rich they're almost operating systems unto themselves. Others are smaller, more nimble, and less reliant on arcane text commands from the days of disco and BBSes.
I've spent the past six years or so making daily use of those smaller, less intimidating editors. See, while we've got a pretty excellent content management system here at TR, the gang and I do most of our writing in plain text in our editors of choice. We can insert custom tags and images at our leisure, and we're not at the mercy of Microsoft Word's godawful rich text to HTML conversion. Besides that, I double as TR's resident web designer and CSS monkey, which involves long hours of code editing.
I started out with Scite, which served me well for... oh, probably four of those six years. Scite happily supports macros and other niceties, and it's got a pretty barebones user interface. The default syntax highlighting isn't too great, though, and I ran into limitations with the built-in regular expression support. Eventually, I felt a little constrained. I felt like I ought to find a more capable editor and stretch my wings a little.
I've spent the past six years or so making daily use of those smaller, less intimidating editors. See, while we've got a pretty excellent content management system here at TR, the gang and I do most of our writing in plain text in our editors of choice. We can insert custom tags and images at our leisure, and we're not at the mercy of Microsoft Word's godawful rich text to HTML conversion. Besides that, I double as TR's resident web designer and CSS monkey, which involves long hours of code editing.
I started out with Scite, which served me well for... oh, probably four of those six years. Scite happily supports macros and other niceties, and it's got a pretty barebones user interface. The default syntax highlighting isn't too great, though, and I ran into limitations with the built-in regular expression support. Eventually, I felt a little constrained. I felt like I ought to find a more capable editor and stretch my wings a little.
Sublime Review
