Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a proprietary text editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- 3.1 new features
- 4.1 new features
- 4.2 criticism
Background
Sublime Text is written in C and Python. It is under a shareware license unregistered trial version can be used without restriction.
Sublime Text
The first version of Sublime Text was presented in November 2007 and was only run on Windows.
Surface
A special feature of Sublime text is the user interface that can be designed with different color schemes. Almost all GUI elements are faded out and there is a full screen mode, so that Sublime Text to the troublefree editing (English distraction - free editing) can be used.
It is possible to display multiple files at once; noted in the editor window can be split into several rows and columns, where each " box " in turn can have multiple tabs. The user also has a " mini map ", a visual overview of the currently active file available so that the navigation is made easier in the long source code or text.
Functions
Because of Python integration Sublime Text is almost expandable. The program is suitable for both plain text as well as program code, it supports syntax highlighting as well as the use of macros. Also, code completion and integration of a compiler are possible.
Sublime Text 2
On September 17, 2010, four days after the release of Sublime Text 1.4, it became known that the developer intended to develop the next version, codenamed " Sublime Text X" from scratch. On 28 January 2011, the first public alpha version of the program that was now called " Sublime Text 2 ", released. The first beta version carries the build number 2111 and was released on August 31, 2011. The final version 2.0 was released on 26 June 2012.
Innovations
In version 2 Sublime Text is first run on Linux and Mac OS X. An important innovation is " Goto Anything" (go to anything), via a shortcut achievable dialog that allows a jump to another file or within the currently opened document to a specific function of a particular line or a particular symbol. In addition, the format of project files was changed, and some minor changes have been made.
On August 3, 2011, together with the beta version 2.0 build 2096 released the plugin vintage.py which largely emulates the operation of the vi text editor; as well as the modal Edit ( command mode, input mode, visual mode ) is possible. This plugin is disabled by default.
Sublime Text 3
On January 29, 2013 Jon Skinner released the first beta version of Sublime Text 3
Innovations
With Sublime Text 3 was a new API based on Python 3, introduced, whereby existing plugins had to be written partially or completely new. Another focus for the development was on speed; so is Sublime Text 3 is able to search all files in a project using symbol indexing to allow faster access to certain functions.
Criticism
The Sublime Text Forum was widely criticized that the update of Sublime Text 2 on Sublime Text 3 Despite its comparatively small for easy user changes should not be free. In response, the cost of the upgrade were partially adjusted.