That's just it - I've done nothing of the sort. Sublime has no "unique" features that don't have equivalents in form and function on other editors. So this "lo

That's just it - I've done nothing of the sort. Sublime has no "unique" features that don't have equivalents in form and function on other editors. So this "lock in" simply does not exist in the case of Sublime. That naturally leads to the question of "Why it, and not a free alternative?" I said it elsewhere in this thread, but the main reason I'm on Sublime and not Atom or an equivalent competitor is speed. It's fast, it's developed conservatively, and watching other editors hitch and stutter when they open large files or scrolling or start up or process syntax highlighting probably doesn't have much time impact on my productivity, it does cause a great deal of annoyance, hence stress, which probably does impact productivity in some way. The other reason is that it lacks in bloat, which to me, means it lacks a ton of features I will never use, something I cannot say about Vim (macros, registers, hundreds of ancillary commands) or Emacs (an entire Lisp vm) and their associated complexity. However, it can be trivially extended with Python, which means any functionality it lacks has likely been worked around by someone in the community. On top of all that, the author has made indication that he'd rather see the editor go open source than be abandoned[1], but I don't share the common belief that no updates for years means "abandoned" either. [1] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/whats-happening/139/9 https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/whats-happening/139/9