Setting up Sublime Text 2

http://drewbarontini.com/setup/sublime-text/

by superchink • 13 years ago

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xSwag• 13 years ago

There are a lot more keyboard shortcuts for this editor, makes you much faster if you don't have to touch a mouse.

Here's a "cheat sheet": http://i.imgur.com/yGrUAL8.png

anonfunction2• 13 years ago

Printing as I type, thanks so much for sharing this. Saw a few that I didn't know about and others that I google far too regularly.

Shorel3• 13 years ago

Can you do one of these for Windows keyboards?

glitchdout• 13 years ago

It would be great if this cheat sheet existed as a page instead of an image. Unfortunately, I can't Ctrl+F an image.

kaolinite• 13 years ago

Nice guide. I'm surprised Aqua didn't make it to the themes section - a theme to make Sublime look more native on OS X: http://github.com/cafarm/aqua-theme

CommandOnSave is a nice plugin that I've been using recently, very useful for automatically running Makefiles on save, etc.

Also, if you want to browse Hacker News via Sublime Text, here's a small plug for my plugin: "Hacker News" (https://github.com/kaolinite/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin)

drewbarontini2• 13 years ago

I've updated the article to add the Aqua theme link. I'm surprised I missed that one.

anonfunction2• 13 years ago

Been using Sublime Text for awhile now and I'm always finding something new. One thing I'd like to point out is that it actually supports multiple selections by default and you don't need to enable VIntage mode to take advantage of the huge timesaver: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/multiple_selection_with_th...

rickhanlonii• 13 years ago

Great guide, it covers most of the must have plugins.

While everyone is talking about themes, if there are any Intellij 12 users out there that fancy the Darcula theme, I've created a theme for both Intellij 12 and Sublime Text 2 which is a blend of Solarized and Darcula: https://github.com/rickhanlonii/Solarized-Darcula

baghali• 13 years ago

GoSublime [1] is also an awesome plugin if you write Go code.

[1] https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime

DigitalSea• 13 years ago

Amazinginly helpful article (especially for first timers). Another addition I'd like to add to the list if you use LESS is the LESS Build plugin: https://github.com/berfarah/LESS-build-sublime — allows you to compile LESS stylesheets by hitting control + B on Windows to compile.

alexpopescu• 13 years ago

It was only yesterday that I thought about using animated GIFs for demoing code typing. That's what I liked most about this post!

landr0id• 13 years ago

I disliked how I had to watch the gifs a couple of times though in order to read exactly what he typed for the first snippet to see how it related to what it filled. Text underneath would help, but it does indeed look nice.

drewbarontini2• 13 years ago

Good point. I just updated the post to fix that.

twerquie• 13 years ago

One of the things I like most about Sublime is that it just works right out of the box. Sure almost everyone uses a plugin or two, but to me it's the editor that doesn't need blog posts about how to configure it, it doesn't require you to keep a git repository of your thousand-line configuration, it doesn't require an understanding of esoteric key commands to get started.

To me, Sublime is an editor for people who don't want to spend man-weeks fucking with their editor and just want to get to work.

derefr2• 13 years ago

It's half-way there. It could go a lot further. I'm really surprised there isn't a single (featureful) editor that follows the OSX/GNOME aesthetic of "convention over configuration; no preferences/options/modes if possible". Key-bindings are the same everywhere you go. Every command is available on every instance of the editor on everyone's machine, everywhere in the world. You never have to re-learn anything; you can just sit down and use all the features.

I would personally imagine something a bit like Sublime, but where all the "plugins" were actually just code contributed to the central codebase, and delivered by updates. (Specifically, I'm imagining it would work like Cloudflare's https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs for plugins.)

Given that the editor would then have "everything" in-the-box, it'd then probably have to have emacs-like modes, as well, to allow all the plugins' various key-bindings to live together.

beefsack• 13 years ago

I'd suggest you should download every plugin for ST and see how bloated it becomes, you'd end up with something as slow and ungainly as Eclipse.

To me, one of the largest benefits of ST is having a very powerful editor which is fast, simple, and very usable, and wouldn't want to see the core become much heavier than it already is (although I'm loving the code navigation functionality coming in ST3).

scottbruin• 13 years ago

This is pretty much Textmate to a T. Uses OS X conventions, heavily configured for doing real work out of the box instead of installing 10 packages, has a built-in system for language definitions and plugins. Auto-updates which will include language and theme updates as well.

Shorel3• 13 years ago

To me, after learning a couple shortcuts, it's already there. Not a big deal to learn.

In fact I have set up my Opera browser to use ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedown to change between tabs.

It is that ingrained.

If you mean to replace package control, no, please no. I care only about a very specific subset of packages and I don't want the rest.

skeletonjelly• 13 years ago

So does Windows Notepad

shurcooL• 13 years ago

I agree. I also love the way it stores settings as an explicit list of changes from defaults (rather than a list of all settings and their values, default and otherwise), so you always know what's up.

My settings file only has a light theme and trim_trailing_spaces_on_save, and I'm very content with that.

This isn't to dismiss its flexible and configurable nature, which is awesome. I just don't need to do more for now.

shriphani• 13 years ago

I really enjoy working with ST2 and I would be super happy if there was a faster workflow for file / folder creation. I would really like to see something that helps me Cmd-Shift-P and type "New Folder" or "New File", type the name and be able to do tab-completion in it (and thus also map it to some keystrokes).

peterstensmyr• 13 years ago

Have you tried the AdvancedNewFile plugin? It uses ctrl+alt+n by default, lets you create folders when you specify your new file and also has tab completion.

Zren• 13 years ago

Here are a few plugins I rely upon that make Sublime much easier to use (that weren't on that list).

* GitGutter: Adds symbols beside the line # on modified lines. A feature widespread in other editors with Git integration. I haven't found a plugin to mark modified files in the sidebar (which is also another common feature). - https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

* Missing Palette Commands: Adds a few commands like setting the indentation for the specific file only. You can see a full list in the link. - https://github.com/fjl/Sublime-Missing-Palette-Commands/blob...

* Open Folder: Open up the selected folder in explorer/etc.

* Terminal: Open the selected folder in the terminal. - http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/terminal

jameswyse• 13 years ago

GitGutter is awesome, thanks for sharing :)

fredoliveira• 13 years ago

This video taught me a ton of stuff I had no idea about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-bgcJ6fQo

Quite long, but definitely worth it. Not affiliated with whoever did it.

evo_9• 13 years ago

Great video, thanks for sharing. The automator osX hack to get right-click open project in Sublime is worth it alone!

Aeiper• 13 years ago

How do you put downloaded themes into Sublime Text 2?

purephase• 13 years ago

Is there a particular theme you're interested in?

Two options:

1. Download package control [1] (first config listed in OP) and then search for themes.

2. Visit the individual theme repos (mostly on GH) and follow instructions.

[1] http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

_smaugh• 13 years ago

this is a tutorial worth watching for beginners and advanced users, https://tutsplus.com/course/improve-workflow-in-sublime-text... an hour or two of investment, could save countless hours of work.

josteink2• 13 years ago

I know Sublime Text has a lot of momentum, especially on this site, but the one main ting which keeps me from adopting Sublime text is that I can't run it from a terminal. Simple as that.

If I'm going to invest time, effort and know-how into something as fundamental as a text-editor, I want to know that I can run it everywhere I need it.

I'm going to guesstimate that I spend at least 20% of my text-editing via terminals, via SSH, via remote sessions somehow. And there I can't use Sublime Text at all.

In those remote sessions I'm probably editing the same things I do locally, so why should I need to change my entire environment to suit that 20% of the same workload? It just doesn't make sense.

Other objections to Sublime text would be that it's not open source. With more and more (new) arm-based platforms popping up left and right, that becomes increasingly important. I want to know that I can take my tools with me to the places I go. Not being open-source severely limits those possibilities.

ary• 13 years ago

You can use the built in 'subl' command to launch Sublime Text 2 from the terminal.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Editing remote files is as simple as an SFTP mount.

josteink2• 13 years ago

That is for OSX, which I refuse to use on an principle of ethical software conduct. Apple is hostile to open software and computers as open platforms. They want to take away the open nature of computers which allowed them to exist in the first place and they use BS patent-lawsuits to hinder competitors willing to provide just that.

They are evil and I refuse to support them with a penny or any significant effort or attention.

Apart from that, talking about SFTP mounts is completely missing the point.

Sometime I'm in a terminal, on a router, NAS, cloud-server or whatever, and need to edit some files in the current folder.

What I do then is "$ emacs file", not change context, go to another local terminal and fuse-mount some completely remote FS with whatever keys and credentials I need to provide, in /mnt/remote/, and then fire up a local editor for /mnt/remote/the/actual/directory/i/was/working/in/file.

That's extremely inefficient.

When I say I need something to work in a terminal to be a proper solution, I mean any terminal.

OGC• 13 years ago

way to miss the point. op needs it to run _in a terminal_.

thibaultCha• 13 years ago

And I suggest you to install Sublime hacker News Reader too :) (from Package Control)

https://github.com/Dimillian/Sublime-Hacker-News-Reader

floor• 13 years ago

Wow, it's as complicated as setting up a bare bones linux install.

neopba• 13 years ago

DetectSyntax is called now ApplySyntax

SippinLean2• 13 years ago

Anyone have a plugin that prevents ST2 from showing the contents of binary files? For example, clicking on a JPG in the sidebar shows the contents, requiring you to somehow close the window before you can continue.

joshschreuder• 13 years ago

Not sure on a plugin, but perhaps adding image formats to your file_exclude_patterns could be a workaround?

SippinLean2• 13 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, but I still need to be able to see them in the sidebar :(

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