You have to add a folder to the Sublime Text window in order to navigate via the sidebar. Go to File -> Open Folder… and select the highest directory you want to be able to navigate. Also, ‘View -> Sidebar -> Show Sidebar’ if it still doesn’t show. In the new version, there is only … Read more
Put the cursor in the variable. Note: the key is to start with an empty selection. Don’t highlight; just put your cursor there. Press ⌘D as needed. Not on a Mac? Use CtrlD. Didn’t work? Try again, making sure to start with nothing selected. More commands: Find All: Ctrl⌘G selects all occurences at once. Not … Read more
To view whitespace the setting is: // Set to “none” to turn off drawing white space, “selection” to draw only the // white space within the selection, and “all” to draw all white space “draw_white_space”: “selection”, You can see it if you go into Preferences->Settings Default. If you edit your user settings (Preferences->Settings – User) … Read more
You can actually compare files natively right in Sublime Text. Navigate to the folder containing them through Open Folder… or in a project Select the two files (ie, by holding Ctrl on Windows or ⌘ on macOS) you want to compare in the sidebar Right click and select the Diff files… option.
You can find it in Edit → Line → Reindent, but it does not have a shortcut by default. You can add a shortcut by going to the menu Preferences → Keybindings → User, then add there: { “keys”: [“f12”], “command”: “reindent”, “args”: {“single_line”: false} } (example of using the F12 key for that functionality) … Read more
I finally got this to work on my OSX box. I used these steps to get it to work: Test subl from your ST installation: First, navigate to a small folder in Terminal that you want ST to open and enter the following command: /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl . NOTE: You may need to replace Sublime\ Text.app … Read more
Turn on Regex Search and Replace (icon most to the left in search and replace bar or shortcut Alt + R) Find What: \\n Replace with: \n
If you want it for all files, go to Preferences -> Settings – Default/User. But as several comments below indicate, Syntax Specific settings can limit it to just the languages you choose. To limit this configuration to Ruby files, first open up a Ruby file in the editor, and then go to Preferences -> Settings … Read more
In Sublime Text (confirmed in both v2.x and v3.x) there is a menu command: View -> Syntax -> Open all with current extension as …
In the current version of Sublime Text 2 (Build: 2139), you can set the syntax for all files of a certain file extension using an option in the menu bar. Open a file with the extension you want to set a default for and navigate through the following menus: View -> Syntax -> Open all … Read more