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that fact that you can login/logout with super+shift+p and load the settings instantly to change between workflows or to do some quick changes on your friends laptop

_zen• 12 years ago

I go one step further and sync the entire Sublime Text 3 user directory on OS X.

mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3 /path/to/cloud

ln -s /path/to/cloud/Sublime\ Text\ 3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3

wbond4• 12 years ago

If you are using more than one platform, this can lead to bugs with packages. See https://sublime.wbond.net/docs/syncing for more info.

catmanjan• 12 years ago

I was hoping this would be a GoogleDocs-y add-on for SublimeText.

frakkingcylons• 12 years ago

You might be interested in Floobits[0], a real-time code collaboration tool, which also supports Sublime.

[0] https://floobits.com/

jzawodn• 12 years ago

Do you have plans to charge? If not, how can we expect this service to stick around?

scott_karana2• 12 years ago

Looks like we will get the server sourcecode at some point.

Sublimall is an opensource, server and plugin.

The client source is already out:

[1] https://github.com/socketubs/sublimall/tree/master

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Yes server source code is coming.

http://sublimall.org/docs#how-can-trust

I want a clean and fully tested code before giving it to you. If I see many people interested in source code, I'll maybe release it quicker.

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

I don't know, I want to see before if there is an interest in Sublimall.

The most important thing to provide a long life to Sublimall is to have some contributors.

scott_karana2• 12 years ago

Looks like a cool project, OP. Good work!

Maybe put a link to your Github repository on the homepage? :-)

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Done. Thanks! :)

rootedbox• 12 years ago

Just put your sublime config in your dotfiles config?

clin_• 12 years ago

Your confirmation email was sent to my spam folder.

Here's some things you can do to make your email look less like spam:

1.) Use Sublimall in the from field (never leave the from field blank).

2.) Include a physical address for your company somewhere in the message body.

3.) Use better english and include an explanation of what this email is, what triggered it, instructions to ignore the email if the recipient didn't request it.

druska3• 12 years ago

Same thing happened to me

agildehaus• 12 years ago

It's more likely improper DNS settings. Possibly sending from a server not listed in the MX record and not explicitly allowed by an SPF TXT.

TobbenTM• 12 years ago

Correct.

MX Settings OK, SPF not OK.

xentronium• 12 years ago

Also if you only send html email, adding plaintext version might help.

eli• 12 years ago

A physical address and unsubscribe instructions are actually required by US CAN-SPAM law.

AcidBurn• 12 years ago

Will this work for syncing configuration between two computers running different OSes (Ubuntu and Windows)?

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Yes of course! This is already working.

druska3• 12 years ago

I have the 7za binary specified but I get a 7zip not found error (OS X, p7zip from brew)

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Can you run:

which 7za

In your terminal and give me return ?

druska3• 12 years ago

which 7za returns "/usr/local/bin/7za" - I get the same error with "7za_path" set to this or ""

alcuadrado2• 12 years ago

This is great! As far as I can tell by reading the source code, it encrypts everything locally before uploading it, and the server does not have the encryption key. Is this right OP? If it is, I think you should make more emphasis about it in the project's home.

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Yes!

Server side can't read your configuration because all your data are encrypted locally by 7zip. It's mean that you are the only one who know your pass phrase, nobody can't read it. This is an important thing, cause we all have api key, password, sftp connection, things like that in our SublimeText configuration, and it must be private.

alcuadrado2• 12 years ago

Yep, that why I was asking. Also telling the users that if they loose their encryption passphrase they loose their data would be cool.

powdahound• 12 years ago

I've had success syncing my SublimeText config across machines using homesick (https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick), but this looks pretty slick.

One issue with syncing configs using either method right now is that certain keyboard shortcuts don't make sense across OS types, and your font size may not work well at different monitor resolutions (especially retina vs non-retina). See http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5135 for related discussion. If you could incorporate per-OS/machine config overrides into this it would be very handy.

anentropic• 12 years ago

you can define the settings in os-specific settings files in ST already

aabalkan• 12 years ago

Can't find plugin on package index. https://sublime.wbond.net/search/sublimall

Is anything wrong with it right now?

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

WBond search engine is just not very good.

https://sublime.wbond.net/search/sublimall%20socketubs

wbond4• 12 years ago

I'll look into this. I think it is an unfortunate side effect of how english word stemming works. The "all" suffix is trimmed off of Sublimall and it is treated like the root to the word Sublime.

I'm planning on adding some checks for exact package names and making sure an exact match is always first rather than just relying on the fulltext stemming of PostgreSQL.

w1ntermute• 12 years ago

What's the advantage of this over a dotfiles Git repo?

rschmitty• 12 years ago

I just symlink to a dropbox folder (or whatever your preference of service)

Save's the hassle of adding/pulling

leobelle• 12 years ago

Or setting up and keeping a server running.

madlee• 12 years ago

I use bittorrent sync to keep sublime text synced across my machines, works amazingly well.

jwarkentin• 12 years ago

There's a simple, free, realtime method (doesn't require me to "retrieve" anything, updates all computers instantly). In Linux you can just use some cloud syncing service (Dropbox in this example) and do the following:

  $ cd ~/.config
  $ mv sublime-text-3 ~/Dropbox
  $ ln -s ~/Dropbox/sublime-text-3

Then on any other computers you want synced just symlink the same directory. Voila!

thejosh• 12 years ago

Yep, I do the same with 2, with Dropbox I can any device and it has the same workspace automagically and I can pickup where I left off.

Also has the added bonus of having "scratch" files.

wbond4• 12 years ago

Please see https://sublime.wbond.net/docs/syncing about how you should tweak this if you are using more than one platform.

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Registrations are now re-open!

zbruhnke• 12 years ago

why are registrations running out in the first place?

And they're not working now either, I guess maybe they ran out again?

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Mainly because of storage. I've to regulate it.

But it's now re-open!

wbond4• 12 years ago

Please be aware, using this across platforms can lead to broken packages. Please see https://sublime.wbond.net/docs/syncing for details.

Socketubs - you'll need to include my name in the license file since you are using code from Package Control. https://github.com/socketubs/Sublimall/blob/master/sublimall....

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Yes of course! I'll add you very soon in License file.

And thanks for your great Package Control :-)

jbach• 12 years ago

For the people recommending symlinking to a Dropbox folder, see https://github.com/lra/mackup

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Registrations was close because of storage. But it's now re-open for 1k registrations.

Socketubs15• 12 years ago

Server upgraded. Registrations are now re-open!

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