Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

  M-^ delete-indentation (or join-line)
  C-x C-t transpose-lines
  kill-line
  M-0 C-k kill to beginning of line
  djcb-duplicate-line (not built-in)
  M-q fill-paragraph
  C-c c comment-uncomment
  M-c capitalize-word...
  org-move-line-up
  C-u M-| sort

    " comentify/uncommentify a line or a visual block"
     function! Komment()
     if getline(".") =~ '^[ \t]*#'
             let hls=@/
             s/^\([ \t]*\)#\(.*\)$/\1\2
             let @/=hls
         else
             let hls=@/
             s/^\([ \t]*\)\(.*\)$/\1#\2
             let @/=hls
         endif
     endfunction
     :vnoremap // :call Komment()
     :nnoremap // :call Komment()

    If you want to use c style comment : 
    function! Komment()
         if getline(".") =~ '^[ \t]*\/\*'
             let hls=@/
             s/^\(\s*\)\/\*\(.*\)\*\/\(\s*\)$/\1\2\3/
             let @/=hls
         else
             let hls=@/
             s/[ \t]*$//
             s/^\(\s*\)\(.*\)\(\s*\)$/\1\/\* \2 \*\//
             let @/=hls
         endif
     endfunction
     :vnoremap  // :call Komment()
     :nnoremap   // :call Komment()

Both are amazing. Both are rock solid. Both are infinitely extensible. Both are free as in beer and as in freedom.

I'm not afraid of paying good money for software. I don't think it is necessary to pay for a closed-source text editor when such good open-source options exist that can do everything the commercial product can do and more.

TextMate (and now Sublime Text) have been popular in the hacker community, particularly with Rails people. The only advantage I can see is eye-candy. They look great on Macs.

I tried TextMate and put it in the trash as soon as I found it had no split windows. Not only that, I couldn't add split windows even if I had the time. If vim or Emacs is missing something, you can add it.

End of rant.