Getting Started with Sublime

What is a text editor?

• A text editor is a program that allows you to open, view and edit files that contain text or code.
• Basic examples are Notepad for Windows or TextEdit for OSX. You can make websites with these!
• A good text editor for developers highlights your syntax, helps you complete your code and scales to your development style.

What about Sublime?

• Free trial for life ($70)
• Developed by a former Google software engineer named Jon Skinner since late 2007.
• Simple
• Highly configurable
• Generally used in all Girl Develop It classes

Working with projects

• Open Files/Folders
• Finding files or functions

Working with code

• Syntax highlighting
  • Color errors
• Spacing
• Code suggestion

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Multiple cursors

Package Control

• What are packages?
  • Packages are a collection of resource files used by Sublime Text: plugins, syntax highlighting definitions, menus, snippets and more. Sublime Text ships with several packages, and more user created ones are available.
• Install Package Control
  • https://packagecontrol.io/installation
• Install Packages
  • Command Pallete
• List Packages
  • Tools > Command Palette > Package Control: List Packages
• Remove Packages
  • Tools > Command Palette > Package Control: Remove Packages
  • This will list packages and allot you to remove them.

Sprucing up your editor

• Add Themes
  • Material Theme (https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme)
  • Material Theme App Bar - Gives cool colors
• Add Color Scheme
  • Add the Material Theme color scheme, because it works well with the theme we are installing.
  • Material Theme (https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme)
• Add Fonts
  • Download from website and point to font in config file
  • Source Code Pro (http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/)
• Add Syntax highlighter for a language (SASS?)
• Install Color Highlighter

Making development faster

• Install Emmet