Day 27 in the #vDM30in30
I started off as a Java developer, so I was used to Eclipse and Intelij, quite heavy IDE’s with lots of assistance.
After moving away from Java and into Ruby, I noticed one of the other developers was using TextMate, and it seemed much nimbler and easier to get things done.
However, there were a few annoying things that about Textmate at the time (circa 2012~), such as Textmate crashing when you looked at large files. At the time we had a few larger JSON fixtures (not massive, 50-100kb or so) we were using for testing. A bit of a pain.
So, eventually, I ended up moving to Sublime Text, which seemed like a better, faster Textmate.
I’ve split my time since then between Sublime and Vim, but I normally end up going back to Sublime.
Over my years of using it, I’ve ended up with some settings and plugins that I’ve stuck with.
Preferences
{
"color_scheme": "Packages/User/SublimeLinter/brogrammer (SL).tmTheme",
"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
"font_options":
[
"gray_antialias"
],
"font_size": 13,
"ignored_packages":
[
"SublimeLinter-shellcheck",
"Vintage"
],
"tab_size": 2,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true
}
Nothing super interesting here.
The main interesting parts:
ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save
Makes sure that files have a proper EOF
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/no-newline-at-end-of-file
translate_tabs_to_spaces
space > tabs! FIGHT ME!
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save
Trailing whitespace in files is a pain…
http://www.dinduks.com/why-are-trailing-whitespaces-bad/
Keybindings
Nothing super interesting, but you can see my habit from Intelij coming in: CMD + ALT + [ to indent is a habit from then.
The other is just an easy way to close multiple tabs at once.
[
{ "keys": ["super+alt+["], "command": "reindent" },
{"keys": ["super+alt+]"], "command": "close_all"}
]
Plugins
DashDoc
I already mentioned this in my Dash blog post, basically ou can press Ctrl+H in a file with Sublime, and it will do a context search using the type of code in the file plus a search for that entry.
[](/images/2016/11/dash_sublime-1.gif)
https://github.com/farcaller/DashDoc
GitGutter
A sublime text 2⁄3 plugin to show an icon in the gutter area indicating whether a line has been inserted, modified or deleted.
Really useful for a quick visual indicator what’s new Git-wise.
This is actually built into most new editors these days, such as Atom and Visual Studio Code.
https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter
GitCommitMsg
Shows the git commit history for one or more lines of code. Essentially it performs a git blame on the selected line(s) of code, and then performs a git show on the resulting commit(s).
JSONLint
JSON-linting with sublime, highlighting invalid JSON.
Really useful for catching those trailing commas or forgotten quotes.
https://bitbucket.org/hmml/jsonlint
SideBarEnhancements
Provides enhancements to the operations on Sidebar of Files and Folders for Sublime Text
Adds a bunch of much-needed options to the sidebar, expands search options and adds features like the ability to “Open With..” with a specified list of applications
https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancements/
yardgen
Automatically generates yardoc for Ruby
You just click over your method, press Ctrl+Enter and it’ll automatically generate documentation for your Ruby code.
