sublime text

Sublime Text is one of the most popular editors for web development and software development in general. It’s very smooth and fast compared to other editors (being written in C++ helps that speed). Sublime also has tons of plugins you can find through Package Control.

But it’s only a text editor and not an IDE. An IDE is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. In fact, Sublime doesn’t offer features like debugging tools, built-in tools for compiling and running applications, intelligent code suggestions, or code refactoring. Instead it offers a set of APIs you can use to extend it. Here’s an introduction to the JavaScript Enhancement plugin (my own creation) that makes Sublime a bit more IDE-like for JavaScript development.

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I am a huge fan of Sublime text editor and whenever I go and try other text editors I come back to Sublime crying: "Forgive me I'll never, ever, leave you again!" But I'm not here to praise Sublime. In this post I'm rather going to share some of the Sublime plugins I've been using a lot and which are really helpful and fun to work with. You may find them for your favorite text editor as well.

Let's dive into the first one.

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I run Find & Replace commands a lot. Sometimes I'm changing a class name. Sometimes I'm looking for a function reference and want to make sure all instances have been accounted for. Sometimes I'm working on an article and and some conversion process requires some global changes. I've often wished I could run a single command to run all the Find & Replace commands I normally have to do individually. I finally web searched my way through a solution so figured I'd write it down.

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