Configuration and Packages for Sublime Text 2

It seems that within a year, Sublime Text has become one of the most loved text / code editor around here. I cannot count the number of articles that have been written about it, and it’s probably a good thing: it means that people like it… a lot.

I have been using it for some time now and I completely understand why people are so optimistic about it. Among others strong points, we can simply cite:

• Cross platform (Windows, OSX, Linux) software
• Configuration options for pretty much everything
• Many, many packages to add even more functionalities

Since I am using Sublime Text on multiple OS, I often need to replicate my configuration files from one installation to another. In order to make this easier for me, I am simply putting here my configuration file and list the different packages that I am using.

Below is my current configuration at the time of writing. For an up to date version, have a look at this gist.

{
    "bold_folder_labels": true,
    "color_scheme": "Packages/Base16 Color Schemes/base16-default.dark.tmTheme",
    "font_face": "Ubuntu Mono",
    "font_options":
    [
        "subpixel_antialias"
    ],
    "font_size": 11.0,
    "highlight_line": true,
    "highlight_modified_tabs": true,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage"
    ],
    "soda_classic_tabs": true,
    "tab_size": 2,
    "theme": "Soda Dark.sublime-theme",
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
    "word_wrap": "true"
}

In terms of installed packages, here is my current list. All of them have been installed through Will Bond’s Package Control. A lot of packages are related to syntax highlighting and snippets and a few more are here to simplify code edition.

• ApacheConf.tmLanguage: Syntax highlighter for Apache htaccess and .conf files
• Base16 Color Scheme: Color scheme for Sublime Text (among other)
• BeautifyRuby: Proper Ruby code alignment
• BracketHighlighter: Highlight matching brackets
• Clickable URLs: Make URL click-able (well kinda)
• CoffeeCompile: Compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript
• CoffeeScript: Syntax highlighting and snippets for CoffeeScript
• Comments Aware Enter: Continue comment on new line when “Enter” key is pressed on a comment line
• Crypto: Encrypt or decrypt file
• Csslisible: Order and make CSS file more readable (use external API)
• DetectSyntax: Detect the best syntax highlighter to use
• ERB Insert and Toggle Comment: Provide keyboard shortcut for ERB () blocks
• FileSystem Autocompletion: Auto-complete file name based on your file system
• Git: Provide some Git interaction from within Sublime Text
• Haml: HAML syntax highlighting
• HTML5: Add HTML5 syntax highlighting
• HTML Attributes: HTML(5) attribute completion
• HTML Tidy: Clean and prettify HTML code
• jQuery: Snippets for jQuery
• LESS: Syntax highlighting for LESS
• Markdown Preview: Preview Markdown in browser
• MarkdownBuild: Transform Markdown to HTML
• Meld diff: Add option to visualize diff in Meld right from the menu
• Package Control: The package to manage them all
• Rails Latest Migration: Quick access to the latest migration
• Rails Partial: Create Rails partials easily
• Rails Related Files: Direct access to controller, model and views from the context menu
• SCSS: SCSS syntax highlighting
• SideBarEnhancements: Additional options to manage files and folders from the side bar
• SideBarGit: Add Git commands in the side bar
• SmartMarkdown: A few commands and built-in tricks to make it easier working with Markdown
• Surround: Additional commands to add / delete / modify text around the selection
• Tag: Formatting options for HTML / XML tags
• Theme - Soda: The current theme that I am using
• yardoc: Generate Yardoc documentation with ‘Ctrl’+’Enter’