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Fixed: Regular expression search replace in Sublime Text 2 #answer #fix #it

Regular expression search replace in Sublime Text 2

I’m looking to do search replace on regular expressions in Sublime Text 2. The documentation on this is rather anemic. Specifically, I want to do a replace on groups, so something like converting this text:

Hello my name is bob

And this search term:

Find what: my name is (\w)+

Replace with: my name used to be $(1)

The search term works just…

Fixed Sublime Text 2 – Show file navigation in sidebar #dev #it #asnwer

Sublime Text 2 – Show file navigation in sidebar

I just switched to Sublime Text as my new editor. If I open the sidebar it shows the opening file, but what I want is a file navigation sidebar, is it possible to change that without downloading plugins?

Answer: Sublime Text 2 – Show file navigation in sidebar

You have to add a folder to the Sublime Text window in order to navigate via the…

Fixed Sublime Text 2 – View whitespace characters #dev #it #asnwer

Sublime Text 2 – View whitespace characters

I’ve used Notepad++. But now I want to use Sublime Text 2.

How can it show non printable characters (i’m intrested in SPACEs and TABs)?

I’ve looked all over. But nothing.

Answer: Sublime Text 2 – View whitespace characters

If you want to be able to toggle the display of whitespaces on and off, you can install the HighlightWhitespaces plugin

Answer:…

How to: Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

Let’s say I had a text file with the following nine lines:

foo bar baz qux quux

How can I use Sublime Text 2 to remove all four of the blank/empty lines, leaving only five lines?

Answer: Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

There are also some ST2/ST3 Plugins for such tasks. I do like these two:

Delete Blank Lines(also available via…

Fixed What is the difference between Sublime text and Github's Atom #dev #it #asnwer

What is the difference between Sublime text and Github’s Atom

Github announced Atom which is very similar to Sublime. Even some keyboard shortcuts like ⌘ + P, ⌘ + Shift + P etc. are same.

How is Atom different from Sublime?

Does it include IDE features like build tools, function definition jumps, documentations, etc.?

Has anyone using Sublime got a Beta invitation to point out the differences?

C…

How to: Sublime text editor: how to select all instances of selected region?

Sublime text editor: how to select all instances of selected region?

Is there a shortcut key or single-step menu option to find and select all instances of a highlighted selection in Sublime Text 2?

Answer: Sublime text editor: how to select all instances of selected region?

On Mac:

⌘ + CTRL + g

However, you can reset any key any way you’d like using “Customize your Sublime Text 2 configuration…

Fixed Set default syntax to different filetype in Sublime Text 2 #dev #it #asnwer

Set default syntax to different filetype in Sublime Text 2

How do I set a default filetype for a certain file extension in Sublime Text 2? Specifically I want to have *.cfg files default to having Ini syntax highlighting but I cannot seem to figure out how I could create this custom setting.

Answer: Set default syntax to different filetype in Sublime Text 2

Go to a Packages/User, create (or…