My Sublime Text 3 Packages

I hate Java. I hate Java IDEs. They’re slow and bloated. I really want to give JetBrains PhpStorm a chance, but they lost me on the settings screen.

I use Sublime Text 3. It’s fast as hell. And thanks to Package Control you can build your own development environment. Even though it’s just a text editor.

An overview of the packages I use:

• Alignment: A simple key-binding for aligning multi-line and multiple selections.
• ApacheConf: Syntax highlighting for Apache configuration files.
• Autoprefixer: You shouldn’t have to care about vendor prefixes.
• Case Conversion: Convert a word between pascal, camel, snake, dot, dash (hyphen) cases.
• DocBlockr: Makes writing documentation a breeze.
• EditorConfig: Helps to maintain coding styles per project, see EditorConfig.
• Emmet: Ultra-fast coding.
• FileDiffs: Lets you compare two tabs for diffs.
• HTML5: HTML5 snippets.
• jQuery: Syntax highlighting for jQuery, includes also snippets.
• La​Te​XTools: Not just development, I write my thesis with Sublime too!
• nginx: Syntax highlighting for Nginx configuration files.
• Sass: Syntax highlighting for Sass files.
• rsub: One of three simple (one-time) steps to get the subl command working on your remote server.
• Side​Bar​Enhancements: Improves the context menu with entries like new file/folder, rename, move, copy, refresh etc.
• Sublime​Linter: The framework for linters.
• SublimeLinter-jshint: Lints your JavaScript files with JSHint.
• SublimeLinter-php: Lints your PHP files with php -l.
• SublimeLinter-phpcs: Lints your PHP files with Code Sniffer. (Rules for WordPress coding standards)

Sublime supports custom themes too. I’m using the Spacegray theme.

Another feature of Sublime Text are the JSON-based settings files. For example this is my Preferences.sublime-settings:

{
	"auto_find_in_selection": true,
	"bold_folder_labels": true,
	"close_windows_when_empty": true,
	"create_window_at_startup": false,
	"draw_white_space": "all",
	"enable_telemetry": "disabled",
	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
	"file_exclude_patterns":
	[
		"*.min.*",
		"*.toc",
		"*.lol",
		"*.log",
		"*.lot",
		"*.aux",
		"*.lof",
		"*.nlo",
		"*.out",
		"*.pyc",
		"*.pyo",
		"*.exe",
		"*.dll",
		"*.obj",
		"*.o",
		"*.a",
		"*.lib",
		"*.so",
		"*.dylib",
		"*.ncb",
		"*.sdf",
		"*.suo",
		"*.pdb",
		"*.idb",
		".DS_Store",
		"*.class",
		"*.psd",
		"*.db",
		"*.sublime-workspace"
	],
	"theme": "Spacegray.sublime-theme",
	"color_scheme": "Packages/User/base16-ocean.dark (SL).tmTheme",
	"font_face": "Source Code Pro Medium",
	"font_size": 12,
	"highlight_line": true,
	"highlight_modified_tabs": true,
	"open_files_in_new_window": false,
	"save_on_focus_lost": true,
	"show_encoding": true,
	"show_line_endings": true,
	"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
	"word_separators": "./\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",
	"ignored_packages":
	[
		"Vintage"
	]
}

It’s also possible to use a custom keymap. My map includes shortcuts for the linter, a huge time saver for copy and pasting while maintaining the indentation and a custom shortcut for the go to definition/declaration feature in Sublime. (super is the Windows key or Command key.)

[
    { "keys": ["ctrl+super+l"], "command": "sublimelinter_lint" },
    { "keys": ["ctrl+super+e"], "command": "sublimelinter_goto_error", "args": {"direction": "next"} },
    { "keys": ["ctrl+super+shift+e"], "command": "sublimelinter_goto_error", "args": {"direction": "previous"} },
    { "keys": ["ctrl+super+b"], "command": "sublimelinter_show_all_errors" },
    { "keys": ["super+ctrl+a"], "command": "alignment" },
    { "keys": ["shift+super+m"], "command": "goto_definition" },
    // swap the keybindings for paste and paste_and_indent
    { "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" },
    { "keys": ["shift+super+v"], "command": "paste" }
]

Your turn. Do you use Sublime Text? Let me know what your favorite packages are!