Sublime Text Basics: All the Best Features in One Video

Just installed Sublime Text 3 and now you're wondering what all the hype is about? Start here.

This video covers Sublime Text's 'killer features' - the practical tricks and commands that will make you faster, better, more powerful, and more efficient than you've ever been in another editor.

It doesn't matter whether you're a web developer, system administrator, devops engineer, or anyone else that works with plain text. When you've learned all the Sublime Text 3 tricks in this video, you'll be ready to get the most out of this awesome text editor.

1:03 Working with Projects
2:28 Managing Folders
2:52 Multiple Cursors
3:55 Multiple Select
4:35 Multi-Cursor Copy/Paste
6:28 GoTo Anything
9:26 The Sublime Text Command Palette
10:19 Find/Replace Across all Project Files
12:29 Installing Packages
14:14 Installing Themes
15:01 Amazing Plugin: Emmet -- Create HTML Markup with CSS Selectors
16:20 Settings: Configuring the Sublime Text Editor
17:08 Final Advice
17:53 Outtakes

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[devashishverma]

SUblime is an underdog. I had been using sublime for a while, and i had no idea you do so much in it.

[skaruts]

Also useful:
- *Ctrl+G* (go to line) opens the search with *_':'_* already inserted, so you just type the line number to go to and <enter>

- *Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down* creates new cursors in prev/next lines

- *Ctrl+MMB* creates new cursors just like the above, but it has one advantage: if you *Ctrl+MMB+drag up or down* it just makes more cursors, but when you also drag to the sides it selects text, and when it does that it also ignores empty lines, and that's quite useful if the lines you want to "multi-edit" aren't adjacent. If there's any empty space between them, then dragging a selection through there is much quicker than having to single click on many lines.

- *Shift+P -> ww -> enter* will let you quickly toggle word wrapping (just be mindful that it highlights "word wrap". It probably does, especially if you used this before). I use this a lot, as I also edit many non code files. In fact this comment was copied to and from ST before I posted it, because otherwise youtube screws up newlines... ST makes sure it doesn't.

- *The ST console* lets you use python. It's basically IDLE but more limited. You can use it as calculator or even for some more complex stuff. I'm not sure what is the shortcut though, because in my Portuguese keyboard it's Ctrl-Ç, and Ç doesn't exist in english afaik. (It's next to L though, so try that.)

- *You don't have to save files, * as ST, by default, keeps everything cached. So you can close the editor and reopen, and everything is like it was, saved or not. Besides the obvious, this is also really great for using ST for taking quick notes, without having to physically create new files or having to discard them when you close the editor.


- (EDIT) You can use unindented comments to create foldable sections in long blocks of code, if you need. This is possible because ST lets you fold pretty much any lines of any kind that have indented lines below them (except if they have only a one line block, in which case you can add an empty line in between). Just thought of this while responding to another comment.

[observant_sound]

This is one of the best intros to an instructional video I've ever seen! I know exactly what I'm getting into and I'm super engaged just by you asking me for my time!
Just wanted to share this

[baldyardigan]

I just bought sublime text after refusing to for a year (I own a company so I do have to buy a license) and I am glad I made the jump I can't really explain it but it just works better than any other editor I have tried. it's not even about the speed or looks, it just works in a more fluent manner.

[Dante]

Damn, I instantly love sublime. Fast, clean, leight-weight. No bullshit.

[colindante]

Thankyou for taking the time in making this tutorial and showing us all the tricks Sublime has to offer. Greatly appreciated. Cheers ))

[jameswang]

Thank you, best intro! Probably going to be my go-to text editor from now on.

[avibank]

I guess I never used emacs, but when you're impressed with a file tree gui, that is kinda weird to me.

[casquee]

Thanks a lot for sharing all this! Very well explained.

[filipcza]

Control+k+1/2/3.. is quite useful for contracting and expanding all the methods in the file/class. For example use control+k+2 to contract all the methods, except where your cursor is and you can expand them back with control+k+1. 3, 4 so forth contracts the higher level of {}'s. Useful for easily hiding bigger if/else jungles.

[tonybp]

I keep trying all these other editors, sometimes for weeks at a time and I keep comming back to Sublime. Atom seemed promising until it got slooow with some of my files.

[glg]

Great video. I am in a bootcamp right now that encourages use of Sublime, though I am also going to use Atom, too. Thanks for this. This is great for us newbies. :-)

[brettaylor]

Thanks for the video. I just downloaded it and am happy to find this useful 'getting started' video.

[FroL_Onn]

Do you still use sublime?
Is it still your main editor or what role does it have?

[Mrthfret]

Great tutorial. Really helpful! Thanks for creating this!

[FredPrasuhn]

One of the things I look for when considering a new "app" is how to learn the app. I am a visual learner! So, YouTube has become a great source for me. Any suggestions for videos to learn? Order of learning? Writing code is a new adventure for me. Thanks!

[ovskihouse]

Hi there, i have a problem, . Miss symbole in left of sublime Which group many lines in one only. Flèche/triangle
How can i find it

[hishambasil]

I really like this kind of useful videos

[leathernluv]

Normally, I use nano or kwrite because their features don't get in my way. However, if I need features, it's sublime. I don't care for full on IDE's. Also, sometimes the editors I use are immediately upon install even before network access, so that precludes a lot.

[idoh]

ctrl button doesn't do anything in my sublime text as opposed to the options you showed with it.. might it be something in the settings?