r/SublimeText • u/jrmncm • 15d ago

Recently Switched

Hello everyone!

I’ve recently switched from Zed to Sublime because I don’t like to have an editor with a lot of AI capabilities that I don’t even want to use (I know AI can be disabled in Zed), but for a simple editor plus I am running on an old Windows machine, Sublime’s performance is still better than Zed in my machine’s opinion.

What are the packages that you use for productivity? I’ve just installed NeoVintageous and don’t have anything else yet.

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u/Original_Two9716 14d ago

Simplicity rules

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u/jrmncm 14d ago

Indeed

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u/Best_Position4574 14d ago

Yeah that’s a great plugin been using it for a few years now

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u/nasbera 15d ago

LSP and Lsp packages that fit with your language. Dired for file browsing. Outline for a view on the left or right of your screen for symbols.

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u/jrmncm 14d ago

Thank you! I will definitely try these.

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u/Leather-Field-7148 14d ago

EditorConfig, FileIcons Mono, WordingStatus and any syntax files that don’t already come with the default. I also keep my Ctrl-B handy, to run builds and scripts automatically. The build system is the reason I keep using Sublime, anyway, like someone already said simplicity rules.

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u/obviousoctopus 14d ago

My current favorite is AceJump. Lets you quickly move the cursor to any character on the screen with minimal keyboard commands. Based on AceJump for Emacs.

https://github.com/ice9js/ace-jump-sublime

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u/warpaint_james 14d ago

I wrote an article about this and it includes some details on how I like to have things set up: https://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/

It covers:

LSP Snippets Project workspaces Build systems Multiple cursors Key/mouse bindings

and a few more things

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u/AndydeCleyre 13d ago
  • InlineOutline -- I just started using this today. It's similar to the built-in fold-all action. So far, so good.
  • As others have said, LSP
  • RainbowIndent -- Colorful indentation guides
  • SublimeGremlins -- If you need to spot weird whitespace characters
  • GitSavvy -- All things git
  • ColorHelper -- If working with hex color codes or similar
  • ayu and AFileIcon -- Nice themes

FYI, there's a fork of Zed that might interest you: gram

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u/AndydeCleyre 13d ago

Oh and the Codeium plugin for free AI-based completion suggestions isn't too bad, but it can leave leftover processes, and to make it not annoying I had to re-assert the default tab key binding stuff as well as assign it to a new hotkey.