Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698429
Length 110 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Dan Peleg Dan Peleg
Author Profile Icon Dan Peleg
Dan Peleg
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Beautifying Sublime with colors and themes


Sublime Text can be a beauty! We can change Sublime's visual experience by changing its base settings, color schemes, and themes.

Visual settings

Let's start by tweaking Sublime's settings to change visual elements; for example, we can highlight the current line, change the caret style, show fold buttons, boldface folder names, and highlight modified tabs. We are going to do this by opening our user preferences and adding some visual settings to it. The following numbered bullets refer to the labels on the next screenshot:

  1. "highlight_line": true, "caret_style": "phase"

  2. "fade_fold_buttons": false

  3. "bold_folder_labels": true

  4. "highlight_modified_tabs": true

The following screenshot shows the output of the visual settings:

This is cool but not enough for us; we want Sublime to be more awesome!

Sublime themes

Themes are JSON-formatted files with a .sublime-theme extension. Sublime themes modify Sublime's look and feel by changing icons and IDE colors.

Let...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime