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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

Discovering Search and Replace


Search and Replace is one of the common actions for any text editor. Sublime Text has two main search features:

  • Single file

  • Multiple files

Before covering these topics, let's talk about the best tool available for searching text and especially, patterns; namely, Regular Expressions.

Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions can find complex patterns in text. To take full advantage of the Search and Replace features of Sublime, you should at least know the basics of Regular Expressions, also known as regex or regexp. Regular Expressions can be really annoying, painful, and joyful at the same time!

We won't cover Regular Expressions in this book because it's an endless topic. We will only note that Sublime Text uses the Boost's Perl Syntax for Regular Expressions; this can be found at

Tip

I recommend going to http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html if you are not familiar with Regular Expressions.

Search and Replace – a single file

Let's open the Search panel...

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