Filed under: Text, Windows, Commercial
Sublime Text brings Mac-like text editing to Windows
by Jason Clarke Nov 2nd 2009 at 1:00PM
Mac users that have been spoiled by text editors like TextMate often find themselves frustrated when moving to a Windows machine. While there are lots of text editors for the Windows platform, it's hard to find one with the clean design sensibilities that TextMate offers.
Well, there's a new editor in town, and its name is Sublime Text. I don't mean to equate it too much to TextMate since they are very definitely different products; it's more the feel of using the products that drives the comparison.
Sublime Text prioritizes a slick user interface and features under the hood that make it a power-user's tool. For example, it sports the ability to give you a Minimap, which for developers gives you a 10,000 foot view of your code.
The best text editing tools seem to be powerful enough for programmers to use, yet incredibly useful for writers of prose. Sublime Text is no exception.
Unfortunately, Sublime Text is a commercial app - you have to pay for the quality, and it doesn't come cheap. A single user license will run you $59US. An evaluation version is also available.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
totoro said 2:17PM on 11-02-2009
I am trying it now; I needed a text editor like TextWrangler on the PC side, and this looked pretty cool.
One thing I miss already is multi-line Search/Replace. But it looks like the Sublime guys are pretty good about adding features.
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NyaR said 9:50PM on 11-02-2009
For what its worth, Ultra Edit 32 does this, and much other awesome stuff
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George said 4:31PM on 11-02-2009
I'm a big fan of Notepad++
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Dakota said 3:08PM on 11-02-2009
Like you said its very nice and very useful but very expensive. Well at least for me.
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Nathaniel said 4:21PM on 11-02-2009
EmEditor is probably still superior.
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Peorth said 8:23PM on 11-02-2009
UltraEdit is my personal favorite. Has been around for years. Very powerful.
Free 30 day demo:
http://www.ultraedit.com/
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sdfsdfdsf said 3:58AM on 11-03-2009
I tried this (but surely _not_ because I wanted "Mac-like" editing...).
At first it looks amazing, especially the mini view on the left side, but the TeX implementation sucks, and it seems that drag and drop of selected text is not possible!?
So I changed back to TexMaker and Programmer's Notepad.
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chodorowicz said 12:28PM on 11-03-2009
I can recommend Komodo Edit (a free editor) - after trying out many texteditors like e-texteditor, sublime, notepad++, programmers notepad (and these are the best I've found - there are loads of crappy ones) I've Komodo the best - it needs some tweeking, and color schemes support is still crappy, but besides that it's great and already has quite a lot of extensions
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