When speaking about text editors and IDE’s there is always a never-ending debate among programmers which text editor/IDE is best. Well, the choice is always personal; I have seen people sticking with single editor/IDE and some people using 2 to 3 editors/IDE’s at a time. It depends on the nature of work and the features editor/IDE provides.
This article is about a popular text editor that is distinguished for its speed, attractive user interface, simple to use, rich community support, and a ton more to say. Yes, that is “Sublime Text”. Initial release in 2008 and written in C++ and Python, Sublime Text is cross-platform and highly customizable. At the time of writing this article, the latest version is 3.2.2.
Sublime Text text is neither open source nor free, you have to purchase a one-time license. But you have an option to use it for evaluation and there is no time limit to purchase the license.
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Installing Sublime Editor in Linux Systems
Sublime Text Editor is cross-platform, you can use it in Linux, Windows or Mac systems. To install Sublime Text 3 in different flavors of Linux, refer to the below instructions.
Install Sublime On Debian/Ubuntu
$ wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text
Install Sublime on CentOS/RHEL
$ sudo rpm -v --import https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-rpm-pub.gpg
$ sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.sublimetext.com/rpm/stable/x86_64/sublime-text.repo
$ sudo yum install sublime-text
Install Sublime on Fedora
$ sudo rpm -v --import https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-rpm-pub.gpg
$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.sublimetext.com/rpm/stable/x86_64/sublime-text.repo
$ sudo dnf install sublime-text
Once the installation is completed, you can set Sublime Text Editor as your default text editor by going to preferred Applications from the start menu. I am using Linux Mint 19.3, depending upon your OS flavor you can set the default option.
Set Sublime Editor as Default
You can also start Sublime Text Editor from the terminal by typing:
$ subl
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