Now this is really interesting. Care to elaborate?
Sublime is a powerful text editor. I switch to it 10-15 times a day to execute random plaintext editing. If I don't need Rich Text Formating, I tend to default to using Sublime. I can see why one would use it to write and edit legislation drafts.
The IT dept at the lobbying firm I was at set it up for me. Legislative writing requires certain formatting, and referencing to the US Code. I could hot key things and it made the formatting very easy. When writing amendments, it made it easier to do strike throughs and new language additions by color coding them, and inserting hyperlinks to reference bills and laws. I really wish I still had access to it because it was incredibly useful.
That's awesome of the IT department, and kind of outside the scope of what I'd expect their knowledge to be - customizing an IDE. Was that the "standard IDE" for the company or something? Maybe you just had a random Sublime expert on the team?
Probably the latter. That was not the standard at all. If anything, our "standard" was MS Word. This was a new idea when I lamented on the difficulties of using Word. The IT guys came up with this solution, and I absolutely loved it. Others stuck to Word, but Sublime was absolutely my go-to. Another minor, but critical point, I really loved the color scheme. Dark grey was much better than bright Word white.
Hah yes! I've always wondered why word doesn't have a dark theme. When I was a recruiter I was always working in word and outlook and it hurt my poor eyes. I wasn't allowed to install a blue light dampener either :( Luckily found settings on my monitor to cut the blues, but still.
I had it set up super slick with latex back in college and I loved it. So much easier (for me) than dealing with word.