I gave it a shot one weekend, but went back to my highly-customized TextMate. ST2 is still rough around the edges. It doesn't show source control status in the sidebar. TextMate has the ProjectPlugin plugin which solves a lot of those problems: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus. ST2's find-in-project was also kind of annoying, at least compared to AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate).

I realized I don't want to make the same mistake that I made when I switched to TextMate: Using a closed-source editor. One day, Sublime Text 2 will stop being developed. It's not clear if they'll ever change the license to something that allows community development. ST2 will probably end up like TextMate: consigned to the graveyard of abandoned closed-source text editors.

That's one advantage of Vim and Emacs: They're never going away.

That would be me. The one feature it misses is multiple line editing by holding down option and dragging.

Though the op's tips make me want to has another look.

Cheers

Marcus

I'm sort of on the fence. I'm still using TextMate at work, but trying ST2 for some personal projects. It's pretty good, but there are a few things I miss, for instance TextMate packages make great use outputting HTML to a webview for things like Markdown previews, SVN/Git blame, etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be anything quite the same in ST2.

I know someone who did, said it never felt as smooth for Rails dev, but he'd spent years in it grinding code out so it's hard to retrain that muscle memory. I didn't like TM much to start with some ST2 was an easier switch.