Yeah Regex is cool, but there are other alternative. Select all the lines you want to prefix or suffix Goto menu Selection -> Split into Lines (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + L) This allows you to edit multiple lines at once. Now you can add *Quotes (“) or anything * at start and end of each … Read more
One thing that should be considered is licensing. Notepad++ is free (as in speech and as in beer) for perpetual use, released under the GPL license, whereas Sublime Text 2 requires a license. To quote the Sublime Text 2 website: ..a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit … Read more
Do yourself a favor by dropping the Windows compatibility layer. The normal shortcut for entering Visual-Block mode is <C-v>. Others have dealt with recording macros, here are a few other ideas: Using only visual-block mode. Put the cursor on the second word: asd |a|sd asd asd asd; asd asd asd asd asd; asd asd asd … Read more
Find: Ctrl+F If regular expressions are not already enabled, enable them: Alt+R Type in the expression .*\n.*\n Find all: Alt+Enter Press left arrow to get rid of the selections, leaving just the cursors: ← You now have a cursor at the start of every odd-numbered line. If you wanted even-numbered lines, press down: ↓ Depending … Read more
/Users/{user}/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages Get to it quickly from within Sublime via the menu at Sublime Text 2… Preferences… Browse Packages
OSX-Only: Add the following to Preferences > Settings – User or ⌘ + , : “open_files_in_new_window”: false
Windows Command Prompt For Windows cmd.exe you could just add the sublime text installation directory to your PATH environment variable, this would allow you to type: sublime_text file.rb Personally, I add a doskey (in a .bat file set to autorun with cmd) so I can type subl file.rb: > doskey subl=”C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe” $* … Read more
On the bottom right-hand corner of your Sublime Text window, you’ll see an indentation indicator that looks a lot like this: Clicking it will open a menu with options to adjust your indentation preferences, and more importantly, Convert Indentation to Tabs/Spaces. The same menu is listed under View -> Indentation.
EDIT With the release of Sublime Text 4, there is now a feature called Split View that you can access a couple different ways. Via the menu system, you can simply use File -> Split View. You can also right-click on a tab and select Split View from the context menu. It automatically opens a … Read more
Add and edit this in your ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings file. // These files will still show up in the side bar, but won’t be included in // Goto Anything or Find in Files “binary_file_patterns”: [“*.jpg”, “*.jpeg”, “*.png”, “*.gif”, “*.ttf”, “*.tga”, “*.dds”, “*.ico”, “*.eot”, “*.pdf”, “*.swf”, “*.jar”, “*.zip”], “folder_exclude_patterns”: [“.svn”, “.git”, “.hg”, “CVS”],