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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

Installing the Package Control ASAP


We learned that Sublime has Packages that help us customize our Sublime experience. But how can we find the packages that suit our needs? And how do we install different packages? That's why we have Package Control https://sublime.wbond.net/The Package Control is a non-official open source plugin that lets us navigate through thousands of mainly open source packages ready to install! There are some closed source (commercial) plugins available, such as Sublimemerge and SFTP.

Let's start by installing the Package Control plugin into Sublime. We do it by opening the console Ctrl + ` and copying the following code:

import urllib.request,os; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); open(os.path.join(ipp, pf), 'wb').write(urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://sublime.wbond.net/' + pf.replace(' ','%20')).read()) 

Tip

If you are having trouble installing the Package Control ASAP using the preceding code, please visit http://sublime.wbond.net/installation.

This code will download the Package Control package and place it inside the Installed Packages directory. After it has finished installing, open the command palette and navigate to Package Control | Install Package. Then press Enter and you will notice Loading repositories [ = ] in the status bar.

After it finishes loading, a new window will open with all the packages available for instant installation!

What we see in this screenshot is the package title, description, version, and the repository link. To install, simply press Enter and the new installed features will appear in the command palette.

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Mastering Sublime Text
Published in: Dec 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849698429
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