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Mastering Sublime Text

You're reading from   Mastering Sublime Text When it comes to cross-platform text and source code editing, Sublime Text has few rivals. This book will teach you all its great features and help you develop and publish plugins. A brilliantly inclusive guide.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698429
Length 110 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Peleg Dan Peleg
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Mastering Sublime Text
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing Sublime Text FREE CHAPTER 2. Code Editing 3. Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings 4. Customization and Theme Development 5. Unravelling Vintage Mode 6. Testing Using Sublime 7. Debugging Using Sublime 8. Developing Your Own Plugin Index

Experiencing Vintage Mode features


In this section, we are going to cover some vi commands, basic interactions, and usage of the Vintage Mode. If you have used vi before, you can skip this section.

Vintage Mode will start in INSERT MODE by default instead of COMMAND MODE; to change this behavior, we'll need to open up user settings again by going to Preferences | Settings–User and then adding the following code:

"vintage_start_in_command_mode": true

Don't worry if you are still confused about Insert Mode and Command Mode by the end of this chapter, you will understand it all.

Vintage editing modes

Vintage has four supported modes that can be switched between:

Mode

Description

Key

Command Mode

Waits for the user to enter a command

Esc

Insert Mode

Text can be inserted in different positions

i/I/a/A

Visual Mode

Select/highlight the text using the Movement Commands

V

Visual Line Mode

Select/highlight lines of text using the arrow keys

Shift + V

Vintage Mode commands

Vintage Mode...

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