Following last week’s very much appreciated post on Sublime Text 2’s Package Control and Livereload plugin, I thought I would keep the momentum going with a new tip (funny how you discover stuff almost every day with Sublime Text 2) on the popular code editor’s editing history.
I am not a fan of the bookmark feature within any code editor. Obviously, there are some parts of your HTML, CSS or JavaScript where you’re going to come back all the time, but being able to browse through your latest changes without having to bookmark the whole document is something quite appealing to me.
Therefore, let me introduce you to Stuart Knightley’s Edit History plugin (github location here + drop your congrats to Stuart here), allowing us to navigate back and forth between edit locations, providing the new edit location is created further than 5 lines away from the previous one (setting changeable in the package).
Practical Example
Right click on your preferred code editor, not a lot to see here, right?
Go ahead and install Stuart’s Edit History plugin (you will need to have Sublime Text 2’s Package Control already installed for this – see my previous post) as shown below:
You can already notice, that a couple of new options are showing up as you right-click the editor now.
Let’s test the plugin now. I’m still on the index page of the 320 and up framework, and I will make a couple of changes to the document, adding a bit of text here…
… and there (enabling in the process the ‘Back’ option):
Right, let’s now navigate through our changes, and see where our ‘Back’ and ‘Forward’ options take us…
Wicked.
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Great post! Can’t wait to give this a try :o)
Could you elaborate a little on how is this helping you further than simply using the good old Ctrl+Z ?
Hi Kobe,
Ctrl+Z undoes what you’ve done, when Edit History lets you browse through your changes. Say you wanna go back to a change you’ve made 3 steps ago and make a small change, then you can easily locate the area with this plugin. Don’t undo all you’ve done since just for the sake of coming back there.