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Anyone else still sticking with Sublime in 2026?

#28

Yes, I have been testing so many editors, but I always come back to Sublime. Zed was supposed to be fast, but on Windows it is as sluggish as VSCode. The new coding workflow: using a TUI (OpenCode) on one side of the screen, and Sublime/Sublime Merge on the other side, it’s perfect. Both have the Dracula theme installed, they look similar.

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#29

Although I only understand part of the workings of Sublime Text (I only just learned about the regex button) those cogs I do use are absolutely vital for interaction with building a novel framework and leveraging AI. Even if I do pickup a few flags along the way as being … OT.

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#30

subl is my go-to editor 80% of the time. I will use VSCode or Cursor when I need their plugins; however, that is rare as I have been using command-line tools mostly of late.

I rarely merge though-- I am a command line guy…

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#31

Hi, @barth!

About that SFTP package, will it recursively upload a directory you select? That would be very handy to me…

Kind regards,
Vic

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#32

Hi, @jabbafett1988!

If you can write code in Python, you can add a customization to center and justify based on the current “rulers” setting for the current View. Neither task is complicated.

Kind regards,
Vic

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#33

It’s been my main daily tool during my career since I started using it in 2008, and still I use it every day for most of the day. I’ve tried a lot of other editors, but I always come back to ST.

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#34

Same! Though I may have started a few years later. The rest has too many features and just isn’t close to the responsiveness. I also really like the autocomplete that’s not tied up in the language syntax. It has it’s pro’s and con’s, but it’s fast, reliable and it saves me so much time once I get going!

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#35

I use it all the time. I just wish there was a decent SUPPORTED ftp plugin for it.

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#36

Why not use SFTP? Does it have few updates?

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#37

I use it constantly as a professional system software developer, day in and day out.

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#38

I’m an avid Sublime Text 4 Build 4200 user on Windows 7 64-bit.

The latest update hit like a bad habit. Build 4215 slammed the door shut, locking out anyone who refused to buy into the Windows 10 racket. They claim the vintage architecture can’t handle the heat, but my machine runs clean — save for a choked-out plugin_host-3.14.exe . The smart play was simple: cut Python 3.3 loose and keep 3.8 alive for those of us still working the shadows. Instead, the developers turned a blind eye to the street. Not to mention a crucial fact: the underground has already adopted Python 3.14+ on Windows 7.

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#39

Many popular applications dropped legacy OS support way earlier.

It is likely not sustainable nor secure enough for a business to rely on hacked 3rd-party software especially in a world of increasing supply chain attacks.

Keeping python 3.8 forever or more generally speaking adding more and more python environments over time is not sustainable nor efficient either.

As python 3.3, also 3.8 are end of life and most pypi packages don’t receive updates anymore and so may ST packages.

ST4200 is still running just fine and thus is a viable enough option for those who resist to migrate no more recent OSs.

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#40

Many popular applications dropped legacy OS support way earlier.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Go ahead and check how many popular apps build for Windows 7.

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#41

What I am saying is official ST releases not being “underground software”. It is for real businesses.

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#42

Most of the popular applications in that list also follow a continual process of dropping support for old versions of operating systems, just like we do. Give it a few years and more projects will fall off that list.

It’s an ever growing burden to support every version of every operating system, so we limit ourselves to what we can reasonably support without undue burden. It is unreasonable for us to maintain forks of huge projects like python and openssl just for the sake of a couple holdout customers on a 15 year old operating system.

You can keep running Sublime Text 4200 on your Windows 7 installation until the end of time.

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#43

Sir, the programs on that list are built intentionally with Windows 7 compatibility in mind, so long as the compiler and engineering ingenuity allow, resisting artificial obsolescence. Because the original idea of a personal computer was to ease the burden of everyday people — people from the streets who are easy to forget about while sitting in an ivory tower with 32 GB of RAM.

I know about this simply because I walk among them and have been corresponding with these developers for years. Yes, there is another life out there — one different from the addict who needs a weekly dose of patches, and different from the hamster who needs a new wheel every year.

Listening to you, it sounds as if you’re breaking your back day and night, unloading heavy crates from a ship to a pier just to support every version of every OS. What is there to support when the changes between Windows 7 and Windows 10 are mostly cosmetic, and APIs are mostly renamed?

Complex applications like the 3D games BioShock or Deus Ex work great on Windows 7, yet your text editor — glyphs and spaces arranged on a canvas — is already choking. An OS does not die by a boardroom decree, but from a lack of demand — and there is enough demand for it.

Since you rely on Python for your development, just think about how to make this dependency more flexible. That way, a person on Windows 7 can grab a file from a backport (yes, the backport mentioned above, not some crooked, hacked, twisted bundle) and replace yours, bringing Sublime Text back to life.

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#44

Sir, the programs on that list are built intentionally with Windows 7 compatibility in mind

Notepad++ has dropped support for Windows 7 - it still runs as of now but they no longer support it. Winrar dropped support for XP with its last major version, Windows 7 will likely be next on the chopping block.

Complex applications like the 3D games BioShock or Deus Ex work great on Windows 7, yet your text editor — glyphs and spaces arranged on a canvas — is already choking.

BioShock, a game that released in 2007, works great on windows 7? That’s great; you can also run Sublime Text 1 on Windows 7, and you’re welcome to do so.

What is there to support when the changes between Windows 7 and Windows 10 are mostly cosmetic, and APIs are mostly renamed?

Even if that were true - which to be clear it is not - maintaining compatibility with many renamed APIs is the very definition of a maintenance burden. But since you think this is so easy, why not step up and become a maintainer of CPython and support Windows 7 going forward?

Since you rely on Python for your development, just think about how to make this dependency more flexible. That way, a person on Windows 7 can grab a file from a backport (yes, the backport mentioned above, not some crooked, hacked, twisted bundle) and replace yours, bringing Sublime Text back to life.

We already ship python as a dll. It would have taken you less time to check that than it took to write that paragraph.

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#45

I switched to PyCharm for coding, but since I started using LLMs, the features in PyCharm that drew me away from Sublime are less important.

I will always keep my license for Sublime current because it can do things no other text editor I’ve owned can do. It’s fast, lean and responsive on files that choke other IDEs. I may return to it in the future for coding.

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#46

I would really like to use Sublime Text BUT, the “surround with quotes and international keyboards with dead keys situation” (ref) for me is a deal breaker.

Tried Zed and it also have the same problem with International keyboards.

I know, doesn’t matter because maybe i’m the only user having this issue but…

I will keep an eye in the change logs from time to time and test new versions as they are released to see if it change something for me.

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#48

Still my main editor in 2026. The AI agents moved into a terminal next to it (Terminus works fine for that), and Sublime stays the place where I actually read and fix what they wrote, because it opens big diffs and logs instantly. I work on aicost.tools, and honestly the speed matters more to me now than before: when an agent spits out a 3,000-line diff, a laggy editor is the last thing you want.

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