![]() It is free to test it for an unlimited time and includes all the features, it only costs $59.00 (£37.73, 47.21 €) once you are ready to buy it and you can use it in all your computers (license says it is “per-user” not “per-machine”). Setting up Sublime Text 2 from scratch to awesomeĭownload Sublime Text 2 from the official site. Two shortcuts to remember or note down (Cmd+P and Cmd+Shift+P).No WYSIWYG or CSS interface (although you don’t want it if you’re ever to become a serious developer).It only costs $59.00 (£37.73, 47.21 €) compared to the $399.00 of Dreamweaver and a license can be used in all your computers!.You can preview all file’s code very easily without having to open them.The whole application is configured through plain files of simple JSON code, brilliant!.You can close the whole app at any time, even when forgetting to Save all the open files and it will reopen with all the tabs including the unsaved files exactly as you left them. ![]() Sublime and project/server settings are saved as single files so they can be shared easily to other computers or members of the team.Working with different projects is a peace of mind, no complicated menues, couple clicks, super simple.Incredibly easy to add/remove plugins and themes and also code your own (they’re like JavaScript/Python arrays).There are many powerful and very useful plugins as well as themes. ![]() The integrated FTP/SFTP client works extremely well and much much faster than Dreamweaver (details later).I’ve been using a Beta version for a full month now and it has never crashed or lagged or given any errors, eat that Dreamweaver Uses much less RAM than Dreamweaver, brilliant for any computer.Sublime Text 2 only weights 27MB compared to the 376MB of Dreamweaver.Starts in 3 seconds compared to Dreamweaver which takes 30 seconds at least (that’s between 8 and 16 hours waiting every year you save).These are just some of the reasons why you should spend 15 minutes today to set it up: If you read to the end of the article you will have a fully configured Sublime ready to rock. This article will show you why you and your team should switch now to Sublime, I’ll be comparing to Dreamweaver although this applies to other code editors as well. Reasons to switch from Adobe Dreamweaver to Sublime Text 2 Dreamweaver coders will find this screenshot familiar: Here’s a screenshot of Sublime with custom skins and code highlighter (more later). I had already started coding and completely amazed. It has an unlimited free trial version with all the features so hey, why not just try it for a day and see if it is worth the change?… 30 minutes later I had everything customised looks, features and project/server setup. So after debating between Sublime Text 2, TextMate and Espresso I decided to give Sublime a try. A month ago I decided to have another every-so-often “Let me check if someone released something better?” and started finding a very huge amount of coders commenting about other code editors, a lot of these had very active communities too. A few years ago I purchased Coda and after a while I had to go back to Dreamweaver’s features I couldn’t live without like a fully featured and integrated SFTP server, as-you-code typo correction, Regular Expression Find & Replace and some more. Since then I just went back to my old loved Dreamweaver and that would be it. ![]() In one of my former jobs they all coded with jEdit and it was a powerful software yet the fact of being run as a Java app wasn’t something I liked, it felt a tiny bit laggy and irresponsive. It would mean a learning curve to getting used to the new editor which could take some time, something that we don’t usually have. And after using it for years I didn’t really feel like leaving my comfort zone, it was a hard decision because a code editor is something developers use 8 hours a day. There are many programmers like me who started learning how to code websites in Macromedia Dreamweaver or even HomeSite, not for any special reason but by that time (more than 10 years ago) it was simply the most popular decent editor you could find that had a complete set of features. In this article I am going to walk you through what this editor is and how to set it up quickly. Sublime Text 2 is the best code editor that exists right now and I’ll show you why.
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