I am using Sublime for programming and here is why i use it over Vim or Emacs or an IDE. Vim is "way to go" editor for me on remote connections to server. But

I am using Sublime for programming and here is why i use it over Vim or Emacs or an IDE. Vim is "way to go" editor for me on remote connections to server. But on my local machine, vim requires lots of configuration in order to let me be productive (at least for me). For example, Vim's regex engine is slow comparing to Sublime, which will be freezing for 2-3 seconds when you are doing some complex search and replace. This can be fixed by some config, but Sublime doesn't have this problem at all. Sublime is easy to use from dummy programmers to experts. Not Emacs or Vim. IDEs are mostly specific to a programming language, if not, they are memory hog to handle everything and takes around a minute to get ready for me to start typing code. One of the best features of Sublime is that, it lets to decide if you want a text editor or a IDE like experience from it. Customise it however you want. Of course it is not for everyone, I guess the best is to give it a try and see yourself.