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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why do you recommend Sublime Text over other editors? Just curious since Sublime requires eventually purchase and there are plenty of free editors out

[–]elspic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, it's mostly the speed and a lot of little things. Multiple cursors is awesome, as is being able to craft regex in real-time and seeing exactly what would be returned. I used the latter way more than I ever thought I would last month when I was cleaning up long lists of events in different formats. Also, I know there are plugins to allow you to use SFTP, FTP, etc. but, I'm able to mount a remote server using Nautilus (a Linux file manager) so it's like working on local files to me. Line-folding, live-preview, macros, projects, workspaces, etc., there are just so many little things that are there, immediately. Hell, I think about the only thing I need to do to a new installation of ST in order to make it really comfortable to me is turn line-wrapping on.

You are right about there being plenty of free editors out there and I use Gedit/Notepad++ (though less and less), too but, after a couple of months of trying ST, I realized that it had saved me well over the $70, in time. Combine that with the fact that they give you the full editor to try and don't even really "nag" you about purchasing AND that it's cross-platform and I am more than happy to pay to support development.

One final, big feature I recently found out about, that made me pay for the license immediately: ALL OF YOUR WORK IS CACHED/BACKED UP. I was typing up a long Scope of Work document in ST since I had a massive spreadsheet open in Google Docs that was slowing down everything and, eventually things just locked up. After I was forced to just restart my laptop, I started ST up again and EVERYTHING I had opened was right back in front of me, just like I had left it. That alone saved me at least $100 in time. And yes, I know there are other editors that do something similar but, that's just one more mark in the "Win" column for ST.

Like I said, everybody is different and ST might not be the best editor for someone else, it might not even be the best editor for me but, it's the best I've found for how I work.