Multiple selections and column selections make quick work of the sorts of annoying edits that used to require regular expressions. Do you need to turn a list of words into a JSON structure where each word is surrounded by double quotes and each quoted word is separated from the next by a comma? It takes about eight keystrokes in Sublime Text, no matter how many words you have in the list.
On my Windows development box, I used two wide monitors. On my MacBook Pro, I use the built-in Retina display plus an external Thunderbolt display. Unless I’m editing on one display and debugging on the other, I usually want to see a lot of different source files and different views into source files simultaneously. Sublime Text supports multiple windows, split windows, multiple workspaces per project, multiple views, and multiple panes containing views. It’s fairly simple to use all my screen real estate when I want to and to consolidate when I need to make space for debugging and testing.
You can customize everything about Sublime Text: the color scheme, text font, the global key bindings, the tab stops, the file-specific key bindings and snippets, and even the syntax highlighting rules. Preferences are encoded as JSON files. Language-specific definitions are XML preferences files. There is an active community around Sublime Text that creates and maintains Sublime Text packages and plug-ins. Many features that I initially thought Sublime Text lacked—including JSLint and JSHint interfaces, JsFormat, JsMinify, and PrettyJSON—turn out to be available through the community, using the Package Installer.
