Sublime Text is a cross-platform text and source code editor with a Python API. It is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Its functionality is extendable with plugins. Most of the extending packages have free-software licenses and are community-built and maintained.
Sublime Text features:
- “Goto Anything,” quick navigation to files, symbols, or lines
- “Command palette” uses adaptive matching for quick keyboard invocation of arbitrary commands
- Simultaneous editing: simultaneously make the same interactive changes to multiple selected areas
- Python-based plugin API
- Project-specific preferences
- Extensive customizability via JSON settings files, including project-specific and platform-specific settings
- Cross platform (Windows, OS X, Linux)
- Compatible with many language grammars from Textmate.
- proprietary software, may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.
Thanks to WebUpd8 Team, an installer has been made into PPA that automatically downloads the stable or beta release of Sublime Text from its official site and installs it on your system.
1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
2. Upadte repository and install Sublime text Editor via commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer
Congratulations! Now, you know “How to Install Sublime Text Editor on Ubuntu ”. We’ll learn more about these types of commands in our next Linux post. Keep reading!