Preface

Mastering Sublime Text 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 in this ever-changing world. The book takes you from the early stages of navigating through the platform and moves on by teaching you how to fully customize your installation, test, debug, and eventually create and share your own plugins to help take this community forward.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing Sublime Text, helps you get started on different platforms and with basic settings.

Chapter 2, Code Editing, covers navigation techniques, shortcuts, and must-have plugins.

Chapter 3, Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings, covers snippets usage, macros, and key binding management.

Chapter 4, Customization and Theme Development, explains how to customize your workspace, from colors to split screens.

Chapter 5, Unravelling Vintage Mode, explains what Vintage Mode is, how to set it up, and how to take advantage of it.

Chapter 6, Testing Using Sublime, explains how to test your code in several different languages.

Chapter 7, Debugging Using Sublime, explains how to use Sublime Text for debugging your code in different languages.

Chapter 8, Developing Your Own Plugin, will guide you through developing your own Sublime Text plugins and publishing them to the community.

What you need for this book

You will require an Internet connection and Git installed on your system; the rest will be specified in each chapter.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers in any type of programming language who want to start using Sublime Text or perfect their existing skills, regardless of whether they are evaluating it for free or using a licensed version. No knowledge of Sublime Text or any other code editor or IDE is required.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "This will reload your .bash_profile with the newly added directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
   "font_size": 14,
   "always_show_minimap_viewport": true,
   "ignored_packages":
   [
      "Vintage"
   ]
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo ln -s /opt/sublime_text_3/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "I recommend adding Sublime to the explorer context by ticking Add to explorer context menu."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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