Needs More Lasers

Many moons ago, when I was a CS student, I became interested in the editor wars. My intrest was sparked by how painful it was to edit files remotely using things like Pico or Nano. After a bit a of research I chose VI over Emacs because VI seemed more obscure and complicated, and thus I would feel smarter while using it.

While I like VIM on the command line is great, the GUI versions have always felt kind of kludgy to me. I think this is because VI was never really designed to have a GUI, it is a retrofit.

One day on reddit I was in an editor thread busily spamming out my favorite Emax jokes and I noticed there was a lot of support for an editor called Sublime Text . I decided to try it out and after a week I was hooked. After a month I had even paid for it!

Top5 things I like about Sublime Text :

#The neat little minimap on the right hand side.
#The defualt color shcheme is amazing.
#Multi line text editing!
#Super easy to turn on VIM mode.
#Works on all three major operating systems.

Sublime Text is not open source, it is nagware. It was developed in python by an Australian named Jon Skinner. Having a single developer, it avoids much of the design by committee problems commonly found in open source editors. It does have plenty of user contributed add ons, so the good things about open source are there also. I think it entirely worth the $60 asking price.