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date = "2018-09-16T21:37:32+00:00"
publishdate = "2023-12-29T07:08:55+00:00"
title = "My Sublime Text Setup"
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author = "Thedro"
tags = ["php","sublime","webdev"]
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summary =  "Sublime Text is a great general purpose performant text editor. It provides a lightweight interface and an excellent plugin packaging system."
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[Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) is a great general purpose
performant text editor. It provides a lightweight interface and an excellent
plugin packaging system.

While I absolutely love [Vim](https://www.vim.org/) and
[Geany,](https://www.geany.org/) Sublime Text serves as a good compromise
between flexibility and efficiency, especially when doing web development
oriented tasks. Everyone has their preferred plugin arrangement and I'll show
you what my set up looks like.

## Preferences

Sublime stores its settings in `json` format. You can find my preferred settings
right here in
[my git repository.](https://github.com/tdro/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings)
Since this write up is mainly focused on the plugins that are installed, no
further details will be provided about my Sublime preferences.

## Plugins

[Advanced New File](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/AdvancedNewFile) ---
An improved implementation of the new file function in Sublime. Eliminates some
of the quirkiness of the native new file shortcut, providing more control and
speed when creating new files.

[Auto Set Syntax](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/AutoSetSyntax) --- This
plugin automatically sets the syntax of a file based on the first typed line.
This is useful when creating a new file where the language is not known because
the file extension has not yet been set.

[Bracket Highlighter](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/BracketHighlighter)
--- A tag bracket highlighter. No more hunting around to see where a tag
ends.

[CSS Format](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/CSSFormat) --- Allows you to
reformat CSS on the fly into different forms, i.e compact, expanded, minified,
etc. This is my go-to plugin when it is necessary to reformat portions of CSS
quickly for readability.

[Dayle Rees Color Schemes](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Dayle%20Rees%20Color%20Schemes)
--- A variety of colour schemes by Dayle Rees. This provides a nice
assortment of syntax coloring schemes.

[Elm Language Support](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Elm%20Language%20Support)
--- A plugin that provides [Elm](https://elm-lang.org/) syntax highlighting.

[Emmet](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Emmet) --- Good plugin for
improving HTML workflow. Provides the use of abbreviations to quickly define
multiple tags.

[Hooks](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Hooks) --- Allows a user to run
commands based on event hooks like "_open new file_" or "_save file_". Sometimes
this is used to trigger a lazy live browser reload everytime a file is saved.
You can view my poor man's browser reload script in
[my dotfiles `git` repository.](https://github.com/tdro/dotfiles/blob/34f6dc572e5b4032a1549e6d95a0e28a2a060921/.local/bin/browser-refresh)

[Origami](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Origami) --- Split a given
window into multiple sections. This plugin eliminates the annoyance of having to
juggle between two or more files.

[PHP Getters and Setters](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PHP%20Getters%20and%20Setters)
--- This plugin provides a quick way to generate getters and setters for a
PHP class.

[PHP Unit Kit](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PHPUnitKit) --- PHP unit
testing kit for Sublime Text.

[Predawn](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Predawn) --- This is one of my
favorite themes for Sublime Text.

[Sass](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Sass) --- SASS and SCSS syntax
highlighting.

[Shell Command](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/ShellCommand) ---
Beautiful plugin that allows arbitrary shell commands to be ran from within
Sublime Text.

[Sublime Linter](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter) ---
General purpose code linting framework. Good for picking up errors in the syntax
of multiple languages based on their documentation.

[Sublime Linter-csslint](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-csslint)
--- CSS code linter.

[Sublime Linter-phpcs](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-phpcs)
--- PHP code linter.

[Vue Syntax Highlight](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Vue%20Syntax%20Highlight)
--- Vue syntax highlighting.

## Conclusion

That's it. These are the plugins that I currently use in my web development work
flow.