Mastering Sublime Text

A concise guide to help you master the Sublime Text skills, from basic setup through the art of theme customization to the proficiency of plugin development

Overview

• Discover efficient, keyboard-driven text editing
• Recognize the latest build of Sublime Text 3
• Full of illustrations and diagrams, with clear, step-by-step instructions and practical examples that will help you in building cross-platform applications using Sublime Text

In Detail

Sublime is the leading platform for developing websites, applications, and software. Sublime Text is a sophisticated, cross-platform text and source code editor. It supports a number of different programming languages and is extremely efficient and feature rich. With Sublime Text, programmers can develop their web applications faster and with more efficiency.

This book will put you at the frontier of modern software development. It will teach you how to leverage Sublime for anything from mobile games to missile protection. Above all, this book will help you harness the power of other Sublime users and always stay on top.

This book will show you how to get started, from basic installation through lightning fast code navigation and up to the development of your own plugins. It takes you from the early stages of navigating through the platform and moves on by teaching you how to fully customize your platform, test, debug, and eventually create and share your own plugins to help and lead this community forward.

The book will then teach you how to efficiently edit text, primarily by using the keyboard. You will learn how to interact with the Sublime Text community using the mailing lists and IRC.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the concepts of advanced search and replace techniques
• Exercise the use of Code Intelligence in Sublime
• Apply and control live Linting in Sublime
• Discover overriding and maintaining key shortcuts
• Learn to test and debug PHP, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby code using Sublime
• Develop plugins and publish them

Approach

Mastering Sublime Text is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide for learning all of the features of Sublime Text, including author tips and tricks. Every topic includes code examples and highlighted screenshots to make it easier to understand.

Who this book is written for

This book is for developers with experience in any type of programming language, and for those who want to start using Sublime Text or perfect their existing skills. No knowledge of Sublime Text or any other code editor or IDE is expected.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing Sublime Text
Chapter 2: Code Editing
Chapter 3: Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings
Chapter 4: Customization and Theme Development
Chapter 5: Unravelling Vintage Mode
Chapter 6: Testing using Sublime
Chapter 7: Debugging Using Sublime
Chapter 8: Developing Your Own Plugin