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Mastering Sublime Text

By : Dan Peleg
Book Image

Mastering Sublime Text

By: Dan Peleg

Overview of this book

Sublime is the leading platform for developing websites, applications, and software. Sublime Text is a sophisticated, cross-platform text and source code editor. It supports a number of different programming languages and is extremely efficient and feature rich. With Sublime Text, programmers can develop their web applications faster and with more efficiency. This book will put you at the frontier of modern software development. It will teach you how to leverage Sublime for anything from mobile games to missile protection. Above all, this book will help you harness the power of other Sublime users and always stay on top. This book will show you how to get started, from basic installation through lightning fast code navigation and up to the development of your own plugins. It takes you from the early stages of navigating through the platform and moves on by teaching you how to fully customize your platform, test, debug, and eventually create and share your own plugins to help and lead this community forward. The book will then teach you how to efficiently edit text, primarily by using the keyboard. You will learn how to interact with the Sublime Text community using the mailing lists and IRC.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Sublime Text
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Overriding and maintaining key bindings


In the previous chapter, we bound as key combination to our macro. Sublime also gives us the option to bind keys to any command by adding custom key bindings; but what are key bindings exactly? In one sentence:

"Key bindings map key presses to commands."

All of Sublime's key bindings are configurable by JSON-formatted .sublime-keymap files.

Platform-specific key bindings

Key bindings can be different per platform; their filename has to be one of the following:

  • Default (Windows).sublime-keymap

  • Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

  • Default (Linux).sublime-keymap

These file names are platform dependent; this means that the key bindings defined in the Windows keymap file will only work if we are on Windows or other OSes. It is important to know that user-specified key bindings need to be placed in Packages/User/Default (<platform>).sublime-keymap.

Key map file structure

A key map is an array of key bindings. Each key binding contains the following elements:

  • keys...