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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

Overriding and maintaining key bindings


In the previous chapter, we bound as key combination to our macro. Sublime also gives us the option to bind keys to any command by adding custom key bindings; but what are key bindings exactly? In one sentence:

"Key bindings map key presses to commands."

All of Sublime's key bindings are configurable by JSON-formatted .sublime-keymap files.

Platform-specific key bindings

Key bindings can be different per platform; their filename has to be one of the following:

  • Default (Windows).sublime-keymap

  • Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

  • Default (Linux).sublime-keymap

These file names are platform dependent; this means that the key bindings defined in the Windows keymap file will only work if we are on Windows or other OSes. It is important to know that user-specified key bindings need to be placed in Packages/User/Default (<platform>).sublime-keymap.

Key map file structure

A key map is an array of key bindings. Each key binding contains the following elements:

  • keys...

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