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Mastering Sublime Text

Mastering Sublime Text

By : Dan Peleg
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Mastering Sublime Text

Mastering Sublime Text

3.5 (12)
By: Dan Peleg
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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)
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Mastering Sublime Text
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Mastering Sublime Text
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Installing Sublime Text
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Installing Sublime Text
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Preparing for Sublime Text Installation
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Installing Sublime Text on OS X
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Installing Sublime Text on Windows 32/64 bit
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Installing Sublime Text on Linux
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Getting to know the Data and Packages directories
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Running Sublime for the first time
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Installing the Package Control ASAP
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Summary
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Code Editing
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Code Editing
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Discovering Search and Replace
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Mastering Column and Multiple Selection
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Navigating through everything
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Using the must-have SublimeCodeIntel
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Linting with SublimeLinter
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The must-know shortcuts map
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Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings
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Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings
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Getting to know a snippet
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Understanding your first snippet
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Using Package Control snippets
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Recording, editing, and using macros
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New key bindings
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Customization and Theme Development
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Customization and Theme Development
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Overriding and maintaining key bindings
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Understanding Sublime's base settings
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Beautifying Sublime with colors and themes
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Mastering Split Windows
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Unravelling Vintage Mode
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Unravelling Vintage Mode
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Understanding Vintage Mode
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Setting up Vintage Mode
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Experiencing Vintage Mode features
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Knowing about Vintageous
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Testing Using Sublime
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Testing Using Sublime
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Introduction to testing in Sublime Text
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Testing in PHP development
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Testing in Python development
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Testing in Ruby development
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Debugging Using Sublime
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Debugging Using Sublime
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Introduction to debugging in Sublime Text
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Debugging PHP with Xdebug
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Debugging JavaScript with Web Inspector
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Debugging C/C++ with GDB
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Developing Your Own Plugin
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Developing Your Own Plugin
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Warming up before starting a plugin
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Starting a plugin
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Developing the plugin
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Publishing our plugin
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Index
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Index

Installing Sublime Text on OS X

This section will explain how to install Sublime Text on OS X 10.7 or later, as required.

First go to http://www.sublimetext.com/3 and click on the download link for OS X. A file called Sublime Text Build #.dmg will be downloaded. Open this file and we will see the following window:

Simply drag the Sublime Text icon into the Applications folder and wait for the application to be copied.

We have just installed Sublime on our OS X! Is that all? No, we can also get the bleeding edge version from here: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev. Bleeding edge versions are available for registered users only and are more susceptible to bugs.

Working with Sublime CLI

Sublime Text ships with a CLI called subl, but this CLI isn't added to our environment by default. We want to be able to use it straight from our terminal, so we need to add a symbolic link called subl to the subl executable.

ln –s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl

To see if it worked, type subl filename in the terminal where filename is the file you want to edit. Did it work? If not, then we need to add our folder that contains the new symlink to the environment. Run the following command:

open ~/.bash_profile

The first line of the file should start with export PATH=. It contains all the directories that will be looked into for executable binaries when we type a command in the terminal. Since we created a symlink to subl inside the /usr/local/bin directory, we will add it to the path by adding it to the directories:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin[…]

Note

[…] represents other directories that would be listed on the same line, separated by a colon.

Now, run the following code before continuing:

source ~/.bash_profile

This will reload your .bash_profile with the newly added directory.

Sublime CLI should work now; try one of the following commands:

subl filename ("filename" is the filename to edit)
subl foldername ("foldername" is the folder to open)
subl . (to open the current directory)

That's it! We have Sublime Text with CLI running on our OS X!

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