Following a couple of articles on Package Control, Livreload, and the Edit History package, here’s a new post of a few more Sublimetext 2 features you may not know about, which I find rather useful.
Distraction-free mode
We all have spells in a project where heavy coding without glancing at the resulting product browser side occurs. If you’re a fan of the minimalistic approach like I am (yes I have been praising about this already), then you will follow me on this. Use the distraction-free mode Sublime Text 2 offers.
I usually use it (Ctrl+Shift+Cmd+F) with a 2 column layout (for my HTML and CSS) and as nothing else (as in NOTHING else, even not a menu bar) is disrupting you in your work, you can gain in productivity and concentrate on your task at hand.
Another tip I give you, if you (like me) are no writer but like the minimalistic approach of applications such as Clean Writer Pro , then I encourage you to use Sublime Text 2’s distraction free mode (this time with a single column layout) and have nothing but your writing on screen to help you concentrate (Use Plain text as your file type).
I can already hear a few moaners from here, saying Sublime Text 2’s writing area is not wide enough for writing articles and essays. Actually you’re right it isn’t, but you can change the distraction-free mode settings as stated here and increase the wrap-width value to whatever value is suitable for you. I personally went with 120 and I am currently writing this post undistracted!
Got to: Preferences > Settings – More > Distraction-Free User and add this:
{
"wrap_width": 120
}
ColorPicker
ColorPicker is another package you may want to install in your favorite code editor (using the Package control as shown below) if you want a bit more details and fine tuning on your color selection. It does exactly what it says on the box, it helps you pick your colors by bringing up a color selection widget you may find in TextMate if I’m not mistaking.
Use Cmd+Shift+C to bring it up.
PlaceHolders
Finally, PlaceHolders, yet another package to install through the package control.
You may have clicked on the Tools > Snippets command, and you may not have seen much.
Get this repository installed, and you’ll get a handful of useful HTML placeholder content such as lorem ipsum text, forms, images and much more.
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Didn’t know about the color picker and placeholders packages. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tip about ColorPicker. Didn’t know, that such a plugin existed.
I feel like a dope for not using snippets more fully, but I also have TextExpander, so I’ve always used that. This library is useful, however.
Color picker is a nice plugin. Good catch.
Here is an app for Windows which can be used with Sublime Text as a color picker (and simple image editor and also screen capture utility): http://www.color-tools.com/