Goals

• 100% Open source
• Compatible with Textmate color schemes (which is what ST is using)
• Compatible with Textmate syntax definitions (which again is what ST is using)
• Compatible with Textmate snippets
• Compatible with Sublime Text’s python plugin API. I’ll probably never implement this 100%, only the api bits I need for the plugins I use.
• Compatible with Sublime Text’s keybindings and settings (think most of it is working)
• Compatible with Sublime Text snippets
• Sublime Text’s Goto anything panel
• Multiple cursors
• Regression tests (Programming in Go makes it trivial and even fun to write them ;))
• Support for plugging in a custom parser for more advanced syntax highlighting.
• Clear frontend/backend separation
• Modular design (it should be possible to compile without python support for example)
• Terminal frontend UI (A custom termbox-go for 256 color mode used currently)
• Qt UI (via qml)
• Cross platform (It appears to be compiling and running on OSX and Linux last I tried, but needs further validation.)