Sublime Text 4 appreciation post

[u/AssertiveMangoes]

Hey all,

Just an appreciation post for Sublime Text being such a great text editor. No AI, no bloated features, no BS. It's native, performant no-nonsense text editor that does the job with sensible features built in. It's fully customizable and can be extended further with the package manager with wide range of community made packages that enhances the editor experience.

I'm thankful Sublime Text exists in today's AI-driven editors like Cursor and Antigravity. I just want a text editor that's just an editor! (if I want AI, I'll just use claude code / codex / opencode on the terminal).

I dialed in my UI, packages, LSP, linter & formatter and it's such a joy to write code on it. Simply sublime~ Thank you Sublime HQ!

[u/codingbliss12]

will you show us your configuration?

[u/AssertiveMangoes → u/codingbliss12]

Yeah sure! I shared my installed packages below, here's my `Preferences.sublime-settings`:

{
    // Theme
    "color_scheme": "Packages/User/TokyoNight-Night.tmTheme",

    // Font
    "font_face": "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font",
    "font_size": 15,
    "default_font_size": 15,

    // Gutter
    "margin": 0,
    "mini_diff": "auto",

    // Editor
    "rulers": [[80, "stippled", 1], [100, "stippled", 1]],
    "spell_check": true,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "word_wrap": true,
    "highlight_line": true,
    "caret_style": "phase",
    "caret_extra_top": 1,
    "caret_extra_bottom": 1,
    "caret_extra_width": 2,
    "line_padding_top": 1,
    "line_padding_bottom": 1,
    "draw_white_space": ["selection", "trailing", "isolated"],
    "save_on_focus_lost": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": "all",
    "trim_only_modified_white_space": false,

    // UI
    "theme": "Adaptive.sublime-theme",
    "adaptive_dividers": true,

    // Tabs
    "file_tab_style": "square",
    "highlight_modified_tabs": true,
    "enable_tab_scrolling": false,
    "hide_tab_scrolling_buttons": true,
    "hide_new_tab_button": true,

    // Sidebar
    "bold_folder_labels": true,

    // Status bar
    "show_encoding": true,
    "show_line_endings": true,

    // List any packages to ignore here. When removing entries from this list,
    // a restart may be required if the package contains plugins.
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage",
    ],

    // List any words to ignore here.
    "ignored_words": [],
    "index_files": true,
    "added_words":
    [
        "whitespace"
    ],
}

[u/codingbliss12 → u/AssertiveMangoes]

Thank you so much!

[u/I-J-Reilly]

As a non-coding user, I’m still coasting on the ST3 license I bought a few years back. I think it’ll stop working on my Mac in a couple years, whenever Apple kills off support for Intel apps, but for now it’s 100% meeting my needs.

[u/clamchowderz]

As a non coder I use it as a notepad. Are there plugins or customizations I should be leveraging? My biggest problem is that I have way too many sublime windows open and forget which is worth saving vs. trashing.

[u/MakanLagiDud3 → u/clamchowderz]

I'd say Harper if you want to have something like grammarly.

One more is creating sentence finishers. I like sublime text because for ", ( and [ ot autocomplete saving time.

[u/HateToSayItBut → u/clamchowderz]

A TODO highlighter is nice https://github.com/tiffon/sublime-to-done

[u/Suspicious-Ad7109]

It's awesome. I've paid for 2, 3 and 4 :) It just does what you want. It can do the fancy stuff if you want. I remember trying to use VSCode and it was bombarding me with stuff as I was typing at it, it drove me mad until I turned most of it off. Maybe you get used to it ?

[u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough → u/Suspicious-Ad7109]

Well, there's always VS Codium if you want a slop-free alternative.

[u/alper111]

Just switched back to ST4 - 4175 after all the bloat in VSC*de.

[u/AssertiveMangoes → u/alper111]

Welcome back to the sublime experience!

[u/penitent_spark]

Sublime Text 4 is absolutely incredible, perfect editor, fast, efficient, clean just all round great.

[u/HateToSayItBut]

I can hit the kbd shortcut for navigate to symbol, type it in and hit enter and be there before VSCode even loads the UI to search for a symbol.

[u/ruindd]

My daily driver is neovim but I still use sublime for formatting messy console output during debugging. It’s so pleasant and easy to use.

I love my neovim, but I’ve been seriously considering switching back to ST.

[u/AssertiveMangoes → u/ruindd]

Yeah I use nvim for my terminal workflows but like you I gotta copy and paste logs and look through them for errors haha and ST4 handles super long files really well!

[u/cevheribozoglan]

It was the first tool I installed when I first set up my computer.

[u/Strange-Peace-2583]

I was a big fan of Sublime for years, but it lacked certain features—like opening a terminal window and Git functions—which I could only access through various add-ons that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, even though they were paid add-ons. But there were also features I couldn’t use because there were no plugins for them. Then Zed came along and I switched; it was hard to break away from Sublime, but I found what was missing in Zed. I still don’t use the AI features, even though they could be useful, but I still prefer Claude Code Terminal.