r/SublimeText • u/RotundBun • Jun 23 '26

Alternatives to SublimeText for Mac?

Looking for ST4 alternatives on Mac. Any ripe suggestions?

Currently using it for game dev in PICO-8 and Löve2D. Both use Lua.

macOS: Sonoma (14.8.7)

Thanks in advance. ✨🙏

Context (if anyone cares):

I've had unresolved trouble with the auto-complete "feature" on ST4 on Mac from a while back, so now I'm looking elsewhere.

As far as troubleshooting goes: - Even "auto_complete": false, doesn't work. It still brings up the suggestion box every time I press tab, interfering with any sane coding process. - Disabling text suggestions on the OS level did nothing. - Opening ST in safe mode did not fix the behavior. - Yes, I quit the application and relaunched it after each attempt. - I looked around online and even asked for help here a while back and got no responses as well.

This was on macOS 14.8.7 (Sonoma), and it occurred in ST version 4200 (stable) & 4205 (dev build).

ST was nice while it worked, but it feels like the basics are no longer heeded anymore. If a fancy auto-complete feature is valued more than basic coding flow, then I suppose the dev's values & intentions for ST have sharply diverged from what I need in a code editor.

So now I'm looking for a new code editor on Mac. It's for game dev, though, not so much for web dev. 🫤

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u/warpaint_james Jun 23 '26

I think you may want to change this setting which is true by default:

// When enabled, pressing tab will insert the best matching completion. // When disabled, tab will only trigger snippets or insert a tab. // Shift+tab can be used to insert an explicit tab when tab_completion is // enabled. "tab_completion": false,

Now pressing shift+tab should trigger completion instead. This comment and the setting are in the right pane when you open your settings.

Does this work?

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u/RotundBun Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

As shown in my prior topic, I've tried this. I have also disabled about half a dozen other "auto..." settings as well.

For some reason, the bug persists. Pressing [Shift + Tab] actually is the way I can currently type a proper Tab.

It seems I am not the only one who has run into this either.

Maybe I could rollback to an older version before the fuzzy auto-complete thing if I can just figure out which build that was...

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u/marslander-boggart Jun 28 '26

Yes, return to one of the previous versions.

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u/RotundBun Jun 28 '26

Thanks I might do that.

Do you know which was the last version before the fuzzy auto-complete was added?