Sublime Text is a shareware text and source code editor available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages. Users can customize it with themes and expand its functionality with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. To facilitate plugins, Sublime Text features a Python API. The editor utilizes minimal interface and contains features for programmers including configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, search-and-replace supporting regular-expressions, terminal output window, and more. It is proprietary software, but a free evaluation version is available.
Features
The following is a list of features of Sublime Text: "Goto Anything", quick navigation to project files, symbols, or lines "Command palette" uses adaptive matching for quick keyboard invocation of arbitrary commands Simultaneous editing: simultaneously make the same interactive changes to multiple selected areas Python-based plugin API Project-specific preferences Extensive customizability via JSON settings files, including project-specific and platform-specific settings Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and Supportive Plugins for cross-platform Compatible with many language grammars from TextMate
Version history
Version 1
Sublime Text 1.0 was released on 18 January 2008 as an application for the Windows operating system. It supports tabs and side-by-side view of files.
Version 2
Sublime Text 2.0.2 was released on 8 July 2013. Changes from the first version of the software, as promoted on the official Sublime blog, include Retina display support and "Quick Skip Next" functionality.
Themes
Sublime Text contains 23 visual themes, with the option to download and configure additional themes via third-party plugins. The minimap feature shows a reduced overview of the entire file in the top-right corner of the screen. The portion of the file visible in the main editor pane is highlighted and clicking or dragging in this view scrolls the editor through the file.
Panels, groups and screen modes
Screen modes include: showing up to four files at once in panels, a full-screen and distraction-free mode to show one file without interface menus around it.
Column selection and multi-select editing
With this feature a user can select entire text columns at once or place more than one cursor in the text. This allows simultaneous editing. The cursors behave as if each of them was the only one in the text, moving independently in the same manner. Including to move by one character, by line, by words, and by subwords (CamelCase, hyphen or underscore delimited), and move to beginning/end of line. This allows editing complex repetitive structures without the use of macros or regular expressions.
Auto-completion
Sublime Text suggests completing entries as the user is typing, informed by the programing language of the current file. It also auto-completes variable names assigned to within the same code base.
Syntax highlight and high-contrast display
The dark background on Sublime Text is intended to reduce eyestrain and improve readability of text by increasing the amount of contrast with the text.
In-editor code building
Users can run code for certain languages from within the editor, reducing the need to switch to a command-line prompt. This function can also be set to build the code automatically every time the file is saved.
Snippets
This feature allows users to save blocks of frequently used code and assign keywords to them. The user can then type the keyword and press to paste the block of code whenever they require it.
Other features
Sublime Text has a number of features in addition to these, including: Auto-save, which attempts to prevent users from losing their work Customizable key assignments, a navigational tool which allows users to assign hotkeys to their choice of options in both the menus and the toolbar Find as you type, begins to look for the text being entered as the user types without requiring a separate dialog box Spell-check function corrects as you type Macros Repeat the last action A wide selection of editing commands, including indenting and unindenting, paragraph reformatting and line joining