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Getting Started with Sublime Text 2

70 points by bkeepers 15y ago

rmccue 15y ago
Personally, while I would have agreed with the Soda UI theme a couple of weeks ago, the new UI theme works pretty well and looks much better.
- flyosity 15y ago
  As someone who was always a huge fan of Soda, and is the creator of the new theme, thanks a lot for the kind words!
  - 54mf 15y ago
    Seconding that, the new theme is wonderful. Now you just need to throw some money at Dan Perrera to let you use his version of the icon - http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-is-less-horrible http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-....
    - drewda 15y ago
      I quite like the icon by Nate Beaty that's listed as tip #2 here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-text-2-tips-and-tricks/ http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...
      - 54mf 15y ago
        I actually kind of hate that one, ha. It's a little too...on the nose, we'll say, with the code in the background and the tabs at the bottom. I like my icons a bit more subtle, personally. Another great one (imo!) is here, by Adam Kiss: http://dribbble.com/shots/378184-Unofficial-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-Replacement-Final http://dribbble.com/shots/378184-Unofficial-Sublime-Text-2-I.... A different take than the rectangular look, reminds me of Ommwriter a bit.
  - bkeepers 15y ago
    I agree, I like the new default theme a lot better. Good work! I updated the original post.
    - mrchess 15y ago
      dumb question but is there literally a theme called "new theme" or are you just talking about the new default sublimetext theme?
      - spjwebster 15y ago
        There is a brand new theme, called simply Default, that ships with Sublime Text 2. See: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2165 http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-buil... If you've customised your theme already, you'll need to go into Global Settings > User and either remove the theme line or change it to: "theme": "Default.sublime-theme",
- 1880 15y ago
  It definitely looks better, but the new tab colouring makes more difficult to see which tab is active, inactive or modified. Luckily Soda UI solves this.
timinman 15y ago
I love the auto-completion.
janus 15y ago
Does anyone have an up-to-date snippet package for Rails 3.0+ ? The snippets included in the default installation are incomplete.
flexterra 15y ago
I have almost the same setup. Love it!
iusable 15y ago
I have been struggling to stay from TextMate and move to Sublime. The Soda Theme + auto-completion makes it a tad easier. Thanks!
mapleoin 15y ago
Has anyone tried the git plugin? I'm wondering how it compares to emacs's magit.
- miles_matthias 15y ago
  I don't use emacs but I do love the git plugin for sublime.
clone1018 15y ago
Don't forget to check out Fetch, it's a plugin for Sublime: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/introducing-nettuts-fetch/ http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/introducing-nettuts-fe...
pragmatic 15y ago
Should be "Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 _on Mac_".
jarek-foksa 15y ago
Instead of: sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" \ /usr/bin/subl I would link it to /usr/local/bin/subl or just create an alias in ~/.profile file: alias subl='/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'

70 points by bkeepers 15y ago

Personally, while I would have agreed with the Soda UI theme a couple of weeks ago, the new UI theme works pretty well and looks much better.

flyosity 15y ago
As someone who was always a huge fan of Soda, and is the creator of the new theme, thanks a lot for the kind words!
- 54mf 15y ago
  Seconding that, the new theme is wonderful. Now you just need to throw some money at Dan Perrera to let you use his version of the icon - http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-is-less-horrible http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-....
  - drewda 15y ago
    I quite like the icon by Nate Beaty that's listed as tip #2 here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-text-2-tips-and-tricks/ http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...
    - 54mf 15y ago
      I actually kind of hate that one, ha. It's a little too...on the nose, we'll say, with the code in the background and the tabs at the bottom. I like my icons a bit more subtle, personally. Another great one (imo!) is here, by Adam Kiss: http://dribbble.com/shots/378184-Unofficial-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-Replacement-Final http://dribbble.com/shots/378184-Unofficial-Sublime-Text-2-I.... A different take than the rectangular look, reminds me of Ommwriter a bit.
- bkeepers 15y ago
  I agree, I like the new default theme a lot better. Good work! I updated the original post.
  - mrchess 15y ago
    dumb question but is there literally a theme called "new theme" or are you just talking about the new default sublimetext theme?
    - spjwebster 15y ago
      There is a brand new theme, called simply Default, that ships with Sublime Text 2. See: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2165 http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-buil... If you've customised your theme already, you'll need to go into Global Settings > User and either remove the theme line or change it to: "theme": "Default.sublime-theme",
1880 15y ago
It definitely looks better, but the new tab colouring makes more difficult to see which tab is active, inactive or modified. Luckily Soda UI solves this.

timinman 15y ago

I love the auto-completion.

janus 15y ago

Does anyone have an up-to-date snippet package for Rails 3.0+ ? The snippets included in the default installation are incomplete.

flexterra 15y ago

I have almost the same setup. Love it!

iusable 15y ago

I have been struggling to stay from TextMate and move to Sublime. The Soda Theme + auto-completion makes it a tad easier. Thanks!

mapleoin 15y ago

Has anyone tried the git plugin? I'm wondering how it compares to emacs's magit.

miles_matthias 15y ago
I don't use emacs but I do love the git plugin for sublime.

clone1018 15y ago

Don't forget to check out Fetch, it's a plugin for Sublime: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/introducing-nettuts-fetch/ http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/introducing-nettuts-fe...

pragmatic 15y ago

Should be "Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 _on Mac_".

jarek-foksa 15y ago

Instead of: sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" \ /usr/bin/subl I would link it to /usr/local/bin/subl or just create an alias in ~/.profile file: alias subl='/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'