Beautifying Sublime with colors and themes
Sublime Text can be a beauty! We can change Sublime's visual experience by changing its base settings, color schemes, and themes.
Visual settings
Let's start by tweaking Sublime's settings to change visual elements; for example, we can highlight the current line, change the caret style, show fold buttons, boldface folder names, and highlight modified tabs. We are going to do this by opening our user preferences and adding some visual settings to it. The following numbered bullets refer to the labels on the next screenshot:
"highlight_line": true, "caret_style": "phase"
"fade_fold_buttons": false
"bold_folder_labels": true
"highlight_modified_tabs": true
The following screenshot shows the output of the visual settings:
This is cool but not enough for us; we want Sublime to be more awesome!
Sublime themes
Themes are JSON-formatted files with a .sublime-theme
extension. Sublime themes modify Sublime's look and feel by changing icons and IDE colors.
Let...