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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

Understanding your first snippet


We learned that snippets can be very helpful, so how about creating our own? We'll make an awesome HTML snippet, better than the one in the preceding example. First, let's have a look at how snippets work in more detail.

How do snippets work?

Snippets can be saved under any package folder, but we'll start with saving our snippets under Packages/User. Snippets must live in a Sublime package.

File format and syntax

Snippets are simple XML-formatted files with the extension sublime-snippet. The root XML tag will always be <snippet> and will then contain the following:

  • Content: This tag represents the actual snippet.

    • If we want to write $, we'll need to escape it with \$.

    • For indentation, use tabs only. If the translate_tabs_to_spaces option is set to true, tabs will be transformed to spaces automatically when the snippet is inserted.

    • The Content tag must contain the <![CDATA[…]]> section. Snippets won't work if we won't do it.

    • Also, the Content tag cannot...