Sublime Text 2 – An Amazing Editor
I've been talking to a few friends about editors on Mac OS X, and one editor that's getting a lot of press lately is Sublime Text 2. It's supposed to be a variant of Vim, and that's always a plus - it's even got a vintage mode to make it mimic the command and insert modes of Vim. It's got an amazing speed profile as well as an incredible Python-based extension library. And there are a ton of things that have been written for it.
So this morning I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did. It's an amazing platform for coding. I can "open" a project - basically a directory that is my git repo, and then with the "Find Anything" command, I can load up a file very simply. Amazingly so. This is my major concern about BBEdit - opening files in a ruby environment is really a pain - as there are a lot of them.
There are so many nice things that it's just too hard to know where to start. There's a GitHub package for dealing with Gists - one of my favorite places to store snippets of code. This guy even gets the file names so you don't have to know the Gist number beforehand.
There is a legacy Vim mode, and a legacy Ex mode. Both are really nice for old school Vim users like me. Also, the app works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
I'm looking forward to hammering on this and seeing where it takes me. Very excited.