Sublime Text - Introduction

Sublime Text Editor is a full featured Text editor for editing local files or a code base. It includes various features for editing code base which helps developers to keep track of changes. Various features that are supported by Sublime are as follows −

• Syntax Highlight
• Auto Indentation
• File Type Recognition
• Sidebar with files of mentioned directory
• Macros
• Plug-in and Packages

Sublime Text editor is used as an Integrated Development Editor (IDE) like Visual Studio code and NetBeans. The current version of Sublime Text editor is 3.0 and is compatible with various operating systems like Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Why Sublime Text?

When you use a suitable Text editor, you can enjoy its rich beneficial features. Sublime Text offers its users the following benefits −

• Ability to solve linker errors.
• Keeping track of all files and folders to work with.
• Connectivity with version control systems like Git, Mercurial.
• Problem solving capabilities.
• Keeping color combination for syntax combination.

You can download Sublime Text from its official Website − www.sublimetext.com. In the next chapter, we will learn about installation procedure of Sublime Text editor in various operating systems.