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I'm a vim/textmate user and I found sublimes UX to be lacking polish and the UI overall needed work.

I like textmates uniform OSX style and VIMs uniform terminal style, using the "Tomorrow" theme on both [1].

Although I'm also a part designer so the aesthetics matter to me as much as functionality. If you're measuring functionality I can't imagine sublimes better than VIM.

[1] https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme

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If you didn't like the UI you could install Soda theme: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

I've installed the Tomorrow theme in Sublime which I love in txtmate/VIM and still wasn't a fan.

Soda is a UI theme not a color scheme.

Interesting. I'll have to check sublime out again when version 3 comes out.

With a few basic JSON edits I was able to make Sublime look pretty sexy. Its spartan appearance matches it's utilitarian nature. I find it very comfortable and trusty. I agree that TextMate has the OS X polish that I too prefer but it's development has stagnated a bit in comparison. There is definitely a place for ST right in the middle of Vim and TextMate. Heck, if the Sublime guys could whip up a better Dock icon that'd go a long way.

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