[vrde]

I didn't know (until now) Sublime Text.

I don't want to seem inquisitive, but it looks a lot like VIM. I thought it was VIM, or a human-friendly version of it.

I took a look to http://www.sublimetext.com/features and many of the features listed are available on a vanilla VIM. Many, if not all, except "Asynchronous file loading, so you're never blocked when loading files off slow network drives", "WinSCP integration for editing remote files via SCP and FTP" (OK, maybe you can have the last one using sshfs).

[edited, I've removed "Commenting and uncommenting blocks of text" from the features vim does not have.]

[swah]

I don't think it feels or looks like Vim or Emacs at all, in its default configuration. It is much more on the "new Textmate" spirit.

That said, there is an emulation mode now, Vintage.

[mrud]

VIM supports editing remote files via scp and ftp. Just use {scp,ftp,http}://$host/$path to open a remote file though http support is read-only afaik.

[vrde]

Yep, you are right, but imho the fastest way to have read-write support is to use sshfs. Anyway thank you for pointing it out.

[mrud]

I think the direct way with scp URIs is faster in regard to the setup time as you don't have to setup fuse and fiddle with permissions.

I must admit i don't use it regularly (but i use tramp mode quite often) but you can browse remote directories, change between hosts without mounting a directory first or open files not lying in the current mountpoint. The only major drawback is if you don't use ssh keys or use programs which don't support gvfs/kio