Sublime Text IDE

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text
editor for code, markup and prose.
Ajay Dubedi
Salesforce Expert
www.cloudanalogy.com

The Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and
amazing performance.
We are familiar with the Force.com IDE which is based on the Eclipse
platform which we use to code, compile, test, package and deploy
Salesforce projects. Today we can look forward to another cool tool for
Salesforce Developers – MavensMate. It is a powerful open source tool
for building Force.com IDEs. It helps us to develop Salesforce
applications easily regardless of the platform or text editor. Most of us
are using the beloved Sublime Text for coding our projects. Let’s see
how to integrate MavensMate with Sublime Text to make it a powerful
development environment like (or better than) the Force.com IDE.
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What Sublime Text can do
❖ GoTo Anything
Use Goto Anything to open files with only a few keystrokes, and instantly jump to symbols, lines or words.
Triggered with Ctrl+P, it is possible to:
● Type part of a file name to open it.
● Type @ to jump to symbols, # to search within the file, and : to go to a line number.
These shortcuts can be combined, so tp@rf may take you to a function read_file within a file text_parser.py.
Similarly, tp:100 would take you to line 100 of the same file.
❖ Multiple Selections
Make ten changes at the same time, not one change ten times. Multiple selections allow you to interactively
change many lines at once, rename variables with ease, and manipulate files faster than ever.
Try pressing Ctrl+Shift+L to split the selection into lines and Ctrl+D to select the next occurrence
of the selected word. To make multiple selections with the mouse, take a look at the Column Selection
documentation.
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❖ Command Pallette
The Command Palette holds infrequently used functionality, like sorting, changing the syntax and changing
the indentation settings. With just a few keystrokes, you can search for what you want, without ever having
to navigate through the menus or remember obscure key bindings.
Show the Command Palette with Ctrl+Shift+P.
❖ Distraction Free Mode
When you need to focus, Distraction Free Mode is there to help you out. Distraction Free Mode is full screen,
chrome free editing, with nothing but your text in the center of the screen. You can incrementally show
elements of the UI, such as tabs and the find panel, as you need them.
You can enter Distraction Free Mode using the View/Enter Distraction Free Mode menu.
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❖ Instant Project Switch
Projects in Sublime Text capture the full contents of the workspace, including
modified and unsaved files. You can switch between projects in a manner similar to
Goto Anything, and the switch is instant, with no save prompts - all your
modifications will be restored next time the project is opened.
❖ Plugin API
Sublime Text has a powerful, Python based plugin API. Along with the API, it comes
with a built in Python console to interactively experiment in real time.
❖ Cross Platform
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to
use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it
uses.
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Latest Features:
❖ Added new Syntax Definition file format, sublime-syntax
❖ Added a custom regex engine that matches multiple regexps in parallel, for faster file
loading and indexing
❖ Improved Unicode support, including combining character rendering, character
classification in regex searches, and case insensitivity in Goto Anything matching
❖ Packages are now on GitHub
❖ Incorporates many community provided improvements to the above packages, with
significant improvements to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, D and SQL
❖ Added Panel Switcher to status bar
❖ Better handling of troublesome files during indexing
❖ Improved file change detection
❖ Added "Profile Events" to the Command Palette, to help identify slow plugins
❖ Build Systems may now define a list of file name wildcard patterns to trigger on, via the
file_patterns key.
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❖ prompt_open_file and related commands now accept an initial_directoryargument
❖ Improved indenting behavior when indent_to_bracket is enabled
❖ Spell Checker now reads from manually edited user preferences on the fly
❖ Stability improvements for Find in Files when using regular expressions that result in significant
backtracking
❖ Fixed file truncation when using hexadecimal encoding
❖ Fixed brackets in strings influencing auto indent
❖ Fixed inconsistencies in Goto Anything when selecting symbols
❖ Fixed tab completion regression in 3081, where h1..h6 HTML completions were not triggering
❖ Fixed Goto Definition command not working when placed in a submenu
❖ OSX: Fixed Emoji & Symbols popup failing to insert text in some cases
❖ Windows: Added support for inserting characters from outside of the BMP
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Download and Installation
If you don’t already have Sublime Text 3, download it from http://www.sublimetext.com/3
Now we need to install the Sublime Text Package Control.
Open Sublime Text, and open console from View -> Show Console.
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Now copy the python code appropriate for your Sublime version from https:
//sublime.wbond.net/installation and paste it on the console.You may need to
restart Sublime Text for completing the installation.
Now go to Preferences->Package Control.
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Enter Install Package and select it.
A list of available packages will be displayed.
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Search for MavensMate and hit Enter.
MavensMate will get installed and a welcome text will be displayed in the editor.
You will also get a new MavensMate menu!
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Creating a New Project:
Now it’s time to create a new project and download metadata from our Salesforce org to
MavensMate.
Before creating a project, you have to specify the path to your workspace folder where you will
be storing the project files. Just open MavensMate -> Settings -> User and search for
mm_workspace. Enter the absolute path to your workspace folder (Eg: “mm_workspace” : “E:
MavensmateWorkspace “) and save the settings file.
Now we can create our project by going to MavensMate -> Project -> New Project.
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A browser window will open where you need to specify your Salesforce
credentials. The Advanced tab allows you to customize the metadata subscription
list and the Project Metadata tab allows you to choose the components to be
downloaded.
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Choose your preferences and click Create Project.
MavensMate will download the specified metadata components from the salesforce org.
After completing this process, the project will load in Sublime.
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Now you can develop your salesforce app inside MavensMate IDE.
It works faster than Eclipse and deploy the components directly
to the org.
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After development, we can validate and deploy our application to the Salesforce org.
Reference http://mavensmate.com/Getting_Started/Users
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Ajay Dubedi
Salesforce Expert
+1 (415) 830-3899ajay.dubedihello@cloudanalogy.com

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