I really don't understand what all these fancy features are that are so necessary. I use a stock sublime install, with a couple of syntax plugins and the materi

I really don't understand what all these fancy features are that are so necessary. I use a stock sublime install, with a couple of syntax plugins and the material theme because I think it looks pleasing. That's it. It's super snappy, and whenever I need to jot something down I just type `subl` in a terminal and hey presto, there's a window. I have notes that I've never saved to a file, but that have been open in a sublime buffer for probably well over a year now. Sublime has crashed. My computer has crashed. I've rebooted the thing multiple times. No matter what, these buffers stick around, and it's a complete life saver. It's so good, that I just know if I've opened up a sublime window and typed something in a buffer, it's probably gonna survive longer than I will. That's worth the price of admission alone. Several times over. I've never been this pleased with an editor, ever. I don't need fancy refactoring tools. Find across files has done wonders for me, and when I need to get real fancy I break out the regex. Ctrl+d to duplicate my selection; multiple cursors; these two alone cover probably a good 99% of my refactoring needs. I used to like having an IDE where I could click an icon and it would build things for me, now I can't stand one. I just set up a file watcher in a terminal in the background and it rebuilds whenever some stuff changes. I use Makefiles or redo or even just a simple shell script whenever I need something fancy with dependency management. I've not missed fancy build integration since forever. Whenever I need to debug something, gdb or in-browser dev tools or whatever is suitable for the context I'm in will do more than fine, I don't need an integrated window in my editor. I appreciate that sublime is just a bunch of tabs of text buffers, a simple file browser, can handle ridiculously large files with ease, doesn't consume much resources, and is stable as a rock. I've found I don't need anything else. It's like what I imagine my cool friends who use vim think of their editors, only I'm too stupid to really "get" them. It's ok. Sublime is my Fisher Price version of vim I guess, but I love it to bits. It's paid for itself many, many times over at this point.