Editors I used on OSX before sublime text: - textmate - BBEdit Before I was an OSX user, my editor of choice in Windows was Crimson Editor. All of these have

Editors I used on OSX before sublime text: - textmate - BBEdit Before I was an OSX user, my editor of choice in Windows was Crimson Editor. All of these have two things in common: simplicity and speed. They are extremely simple to use, but also have some powerful features (if I didn't have to resort to perl most of the time, I was happy). And they didn't hog system memory or hang when editing large files. Textmate added something to the mix: It was pleasant on the eyes. I'm a big fan of dark themes. When sublime text came along, it added the absolute killer feature: "do anything" typing. I'm a HUGE keyboard navigator, avoiding mouse pointing a lot in favor of keystrokes. The ability to hit Cmd+P and type a couple letters of what I want to do and sublime text prompts. I can open files, edit in several ways, find and replace, do a build, whatever I want, all from the home row. If there's ever a better editor than sublime text, it would have to be an IDE that brings fast, efficient, memorable keyboard-only navigation. And current IDEs do a decent job of this, although they're way sluggish compared to sublime text, and not as feature rich.