Just came across Sublime, and it looks awesome
. I'm in the first day of playing with it, and am seeing no reason not to switch and buy at this point. One thing that I *am* missing from my previous editor (Textpad), that I havne't seen anywhere else, is the way cursor movement is handled when switching lines. It's a bit hard to describe, but it is *very* handy. I'll try to describe it below, but it's probably easier if you follow along by trying firsthand by downloading Textpad 4.x (e.g. http://www.textpad.com/download/v47/txpeng473.exe).For example, say I have the following two lines, with the cursor positioned at the pipe:
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The quick | fox jumped
over the lazy dog.
...and then I typed "brown", the cursor would end up here:
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The quick brown| fox jumped
over the lazy dog.
...in most editors (including Sublime), if I then pressed the down arrow, I'd wind up with this:
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The quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy d|og.
However, Textpad ends up with this:
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The quick brown fox jumped
over the l|azy dog.
This comes in *very* handy when doing multiple similar edits across multiple lines.
It seems the editor is keeping track of both the cursor's "current X position" and the "base X position", which is "the original X position before any editing occurred since the last horizontal cursor navigation command". Then, if you move the cursor up or down (with either up/down arrows, or pgup/pgdn), the cursor tries to keep as close to the original X position as possible, but within the current line's constraints. The base X position is updated next time you manually position the cursor horizontally (e.g. left/right arrows, mouse click, etc).
Anyway, like I said, it's hard to appreciate without trying, and it'd be awesome to see added to what already looks to be a great editor.