Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a code and text editor for macOS that helps you write, edit, search, and manage source files and projects efficiently.
What is Sublime Text?
Sublime Text is a native desktop text editor for macOS that helps developers and other technical users work with code, markup, scripts, and plain text. It is designed for fast editing across single files and larger project folders, with tools for syntax highlighting, search and replace, split editing, and extensive customization. Users commonly choose it for programming, web development, config-file editing, and quick text work when they want a lightweight editor that still supports advanced workflows. Sublime Text also supports packages and user settings, so you can adapt the editor to different languages and team preferences. On Mac, it includes the `subl` command-line tool for opening files and projects from Terminal-based workflows.
Key features
- Edit code and plain text with syntax highlighting for many languages
- Search across files and replace text throughout a project
- Open and work in multiple panes for side-by-side editing
- Customize behavior, appearance, and key bindings with user settings
- Extend the editor with packages and language-specific add-ons
- Open files and projects from Terminal with the `subl` command
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Sublime Text is a well-known code editor, and its normal files and settings are consistent with a desktop editing app. Use extra care with third-party packages, build systems, and commands opened from untrusted projects, because editor extensions can run code or change files as part of development workflows. If you rely on Terminal integration, confirm that the `subl` command points to your installed app bundle and not to an unexpected location.
Recommendation: Keep Sublime Text if you use it for coding, scripting, or text editing on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app and its support files to reclaim space, but doing so will also remove your custom settings, installed packages, and editor preferences.
Common paths
/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.sublimetext.4
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.sublimetext.4.plist
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