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When comparing SideBar Enhancements vs Sublime Linter, the Slant community recommends SideBar Enhancements for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” SideBar Enhancements is ranked 2nd while Sublime Linter is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Adds goodness to context of clicks
Pro Adds a ton of functionality to the sidebar
- Move to trash
- Clipboard
- Open in browser
- Copy the content of a file as data:uri base64
- Close, move, open and restore buffers affected by a rename/move command
- Copy as tags img/a/script/style
- Duplicate
- Preference to control if a buffer should be closed when affected by a deletion operation
- Allows to display "file modified date" and "file size" on statusbar
Pro Helps you find errors in the code
Pro Supports pretty much every language
Cons
Con Data collection
SE ships your data off to Kite.
Con ST2 version is not maintained anymore
The last ST2 version is available here. All future functionality will be added only to the ST3 version.
Con Tends to cause Sublime Text to run slowly
With Sublime Linter installed, dialog boxes warning that the plugin is running slowly can become a common occurrence, depending on the types of files you regularly work with.
Con Many default linters require installing Node.js
Javascript, CoffeeScript, and even the CSS linter require installing Node.js to function