I tried using Sublime text and it's a great editor, extensible and moldable, but I just keep coming back to emacs since that is always available wherever I am, logged in via ssh.
A ssh/text-only version of sublime text would be interesting ;)
> A ssh/text-only version of sublime text would be interesting ;)
That's "vi".
All kidding aside, I've no idea how someone would pull this off. A lot of the best features in Sublime wouldn't translate well to a terminal. The minimap, for example.
This point shouldn't be understates. Currently I use a mixture of Sublime, Intellij, emacs, and VI, on Windows, Linux, and OSX. I'm sure this hurts my flow.
As I started off with Emacs, I would love to return it to it for this reason. However, I've never been able to smoothly recreate two or three of the features that I need, despite spending hours playing around with different plugins.
1) For Dynamic language development, a 'goto arbitrary file' as slick as Sublime is all I need. This one feels simple to achieve, but I haven't been able to find anything similar.
2) For Java, a working tags or 'goto symbol' implementation with disambiguation and even the slightest awareness of the language and scope.
I would probably have more success writing own editor from scratch that learning emacs lisp however!
A ssh/text-only version of sublime text would be interesting ;)