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Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.

by techiferous 15y ago

jguimont 15y ago
Much better than TextMate. Faster, actually actively developed. Just cmd-t and cmd-p makes it worth the switch.
- seclorum 15y ago
  I bought Sublime as soon as I accidentally hit cmd-R and realized what it was showing me. ;)
  - gulbrandr 15y ago
    What does cmd-R do?
    - Brajeshwar 15y ago
      Helps you jump to functions, methods. I love it when developing on large CSS files (and/or Sass files).
  - Fluxx 15y ago
    Textmate has this same feature to, I think it's called "Go to symbol." That said, I used Textmate and I love Sublime so much better.
- jkraemer 15y ago
  shift-cmd-t is 'Goto Symbol' in TextMate, pretty much what cmd-r does in Sublime.
- blacksmith_tb 15y ago
  Agreed - the incredible speed of pulling up files in ST2 is great. And searching across dirs / projects is much, much faster than TM, also. There are few things that I miss, every so often (printing, dragging selected text), but I am overall very happy to have bought ST2. I haven't yet needed to install on a machine running another OS, but that is also a very nice perk.
teejae 15y ago
Sublime blows TextMate out of the water. Hands down.
chadv 15y ago
Sublime is nice, and would probably be the best choice if you were choosing your first text editor. If you are coming from TextMate, it depends on your situation. Sublime is faster, it has a nice always-on, miniaturized preview of your whole document, and it has tremendous momentum in the developer community. I'm primarily a designer who writes JS and CSS, and, so far, Sublime's benefits don't outweigh the arduousness of committing different keyboard shortcuts to muscle memory. So, I have both installed, but I still use TM primarily. My good friend, who is a much better programmer than I, prefers Sublime. He is a fast learner and so his "switching cost" for new editors is relatively low.
mhartl 15y ago
Sublime Text is very similar to TextMate, supporting many of the same keybindings, snippets, and themes. (I've even set up my system to use Ryan Bates's Railscast theme to keep things looking familiar.) Unlike TextMate, Sublime Text supports multiple panes and is cross-platform. Because of its advantages (being cross-platform is the clincher), I'm planning to use Sublime Text in place of TextMate in the 2nd edition of the Rails Tutorial screencasts. I also hope to make a Sublime-specific screencast at some point, with an emphasis on keyboard shortcuts useful for Rails development. Further updates as events warrant.

Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.

jguimont 15y ago

Much better than TextMate. Faster, actually actively developed. Just cmd-t and cmd-p makes it worth the switch.

seclorum 15y ago
I bought Sublime as soon as I accidentally hit cmd-R and realized what it was showing me. ;)
- gulbrandr 15y ago
  What does cmd-R do?
  - Brajeshwar 15y ago
    Helps you jump to functions, methods. I love it when developing on large CSS files (and/or Sass files).
- Fluxx 15y ago
  Textmate has this same feature to, I think it's called "Go to symbol." That said, I used Textmate and I love Sublime so much better.
jkraemer 15y ago
shift-cmd-t is 'Goto Symbol' in TextMate, pretty much what cmd-r does in Sublime.
blacksmith_tb 15y ago
Agreed - the incredible speed of pulling up files in ST2 is great. And searching across dirs / projects is much, much faster than TM, also. There are few things that I miss, every so often (printing, dragging selected text), but I am overall very happy to have bought ST2. I haven't yet needed to install on a machine running another OS, but that is also a very nice perk.

teejae 15y ago

Sublime blows TextMate out of the water. Hands down.

chadv 15y ago

Sublime is nice, and would probably be the best choice if you were choosing your first text editor. If you are coming from TextMate, it depends on your situation. Sublime is faster, it has a nice always-on, miniaturized preview of your whole document, and it has tremendous momentum in the developer community. I'm primarily a designer who writes JS and CSS, and, so far, Sublime's benefits don't outweigh the arduousness of committing different keyboard shortcuts to muscle memory. So, I have both installed, but I still use TM primarily. My good friend, who is a much better programmer than I, prefers Sublime. He is a fast learner and so his "switching cost" for new editors is relatively low.

mhartl 15y ago

Sublime Text is very similar to TextMate, supporting many of the same keybindings, snippets, and themes. (I've even set up my system to use Ryan Bates's Railscast theme to keep things looking familiar.) Unlike TextMate, Sublime Text supports multiple panes and is cross-platform. Because of its advantages (being cross-platform is the clincher), I'm planning to use Sublime Text in place of TextMate in the 2nd edition of the Rails Tutorial screencasts. I also hope to make a Sublime-specific screencast at some point, with an emphasis on keyboard shortcuts useful for Rails development. Further updates as events warrant.