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.
Usually a back-reference is either $1 or \1 (backslash one) for the first capture group (the first match of a pattern in parentheses), and indeed Sublime supports both syntaxes. So try: my name used to be \1 or my name used to be $1 Also note that your original capture pattern: my name is (\w)+ … Read more
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
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 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
You don’t need any plugins to do this. Just select all lines (CTRL+A) and then from the menu select Edit → Line → Reindent. This will work if your file is saved with an extension that contains HTML like .html or .php. If you do this often, you may find this key mapping useful: { … Read more