sublime text

A step-by-step tutorial over at Nettuts+.

PlainTasks for Sublime Text is an amazing package. I think it demonstrates some of the powerfully tweaking possible in Sublime Text. It’s like TaskPaper built into Sublime Text. And, in case you are wondering, it works perfectly with nvAlt. Just set Sublime Text syntax to “Task”. The syntax and formatting is perfectly preserved and usable in nvAlt too.

It’s the little things. :::text lorem + Tab Boom. A Lorem Ipsum paragraph. By way of @tiagonoronha

I’ve been tinkering with some more Sublime Text plugin development. My first introduction can be found here.1 This work was inspired by Brett’s MarkdownEditing plugin. For a demo of what the plugin does, here’s a little video: I created these by reading the API documentation, the command documentation and browsing the forum. In addition, I examined the code of many, many other plugins for hints as to what the hell the first three meant.

This macro creates a new note file in NVAlt (i.e. Dropbox) and immediately opens it in Sublime Text for editing. The “touch” command creates a new empty text file and then I use the Sublime CLI to open it for editing.

I’ve been tinkering with converting some of my BBEdit customizations into Sublime Text macro, snippets and plugins. Making a Sublime Text plugin requires some knowledge that I found difficult to acquire in one place. So, I’m putting it here for someone else to benefit from. Reference Viewer When I write a long post, I generally gather some reference links before I start writing in earnest. As I write, I intertwine the references with the content.

FTP Access While this post was inspired by my move to a static blog system, I regularly need to interact with text files on remote servers over FTP.1 I have used Notepad++ on Windows for years and I’ve never been thrilled with the FTP plugin. Dropbox is an amazing technology, but an FTP client is still a critical tool that I suspect will be needed for many more decades. A good FTP based text editor is essential.

Select some code in Sublime Text and export colorized RTF or HTML code. As a bonus it uses my new favorite code highlighter Pygments.

An excellent look at Sublime Text’s unique code folding system.

Some more Sublime Text tips for general writing.1 Moving Around Move to end of next word: Ctrl+Right Arrow Move to beginning of previous word: Ctrl+Left Arrow Jump to Cursor: Ctrl+l Jump to matching bracket: Ctrl+m (Very handy for getting to the end of a Markdown link.) Deleting Delete Current Line: Ctrl+Shift+K Delete to End of Line: Ctrl+K Delete to Beginning of Line: ⌘+Delete Delete to Beginning of Current Word: Option+Delete