{"id":1129,"date":"2013-04-23T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:37:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:37:34","slug":"sublime-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/sublime-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sublime Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hunting for an IDE for a while now. I’m using IntelliJ IDEA for work and I love it, but it’s definitely more complex (and more expensive) than my personal projects will allow. I’ve used lightweight editors for a long time (Notepad++, Crimson) and they’re great for some things, but I’ve found myself more and more impressed by the power of an IDE with really good navigation tools.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been learning vim commands using vim-adventures.com<\/a> (which is worth the money just for being a good puzzle adventure game if nothing else) and I’ve been trying out vim itself as well as popular IDEs that have vim plugins – Emacs, Eclipse, Netbeans. Unfortunately, nothing has been an easy fit. I’m sure I could get accustomed to any of them over time, but I kept looking in case there was something better out there.<\/p>\n

That’s how I stumbled across Sublime Text<\/a> last night. How has nobody told me about this before?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. It’s fast, like the lightweight editors I used to love.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s pretty, especially in fullscreen or distraction-free mode.<\/li>\n
  3. It has an integrated VIM mode.<\/li>\n
  4. It’s got excellent navigation tools built in (the “Go to anything” command is awesome).<\/li>\n
  5. It’s got a great plugin community and plugin management tools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My total time for setup was probably an hour – that’s download, install, finding and installing three or four helpful plugins, configuring vintage mode, and importing my current project. I’m going to give it another couple days of trial first, but I think I’ll end up dropping $70 on this editor.<\/p>\n

    In the process of looking for IDEs I also stumbled across WriteRoom<\/a>, a little $10 text editor that’s equally pretty. I used its distraction-free mode to write a blog post on the train this morning.<\/p>\n

    I’m usually pretty gung-ho about free software, but I have to admit a significant leap in the aesthetic quality of these paid (but affordable) editors. I might be a convert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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