The document provides a guide on optimizing the Sublime Text 2 editor for developers, featuring settings adjustments, installation of package control, and various keyboard shortcuts. It includes tips for navigating and editing documents more efficiently. The intended audience is developers looking to enhance their workflow using Sublime Text 2.

1. Ease Your Dev Life
With the tools you use
A Sublime Text 2 Story
Featuring
Ninio (http://shtrak.eu/ninio)
Shtrak! (http://shtrak.eu/it)
Init Lab (http://initlab.org)

2. Sublime Text 2
The cool kids’ text editor

3. Agenda
1. Tuning Sublime to make our life better
1. How to find settings on your own
2. Go To Anything
1. Go To Anything in settings
3. Installing The Package Control
4. Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Shortcuts

4. Tuning Sublime to make our life
better
User’s settings can be edited from:
Preferences > Settings – User

5. Tuning Sublime to make our life
better
//My most vital settings
{
"bold_folder_labels": true,
"caret_style": "phase",
"highlight_line": true,
"highlight_modified_tabs": true,
"word_wrap": true
}

6. Tuning Sublime to make our life
better
Default settings can be edited from:
Preferences > Settings – Default

7. Tuning Sublime to make our life
better
Default settings can be edited from:
Preferences > Settings – Default
Looky but no touchy!

8. Go To Anything
Ctrl+P

9. Go To Anything
:123 //to go to row 123 of the current document
@myFunc //to go to the definition of function
myFunc
function.php //to go to the file function.php of
the opened project/folder
themeshtrastyle.css:190 //to go to row 190 of
style.css in the folder themes/shtrak/

10. Go To Anything for Settings
Ctrl+Shift+P

11. Go To Anything for Settings
Simply type and browse the setting menus of
sublime

12. Installing Package Control
Do it from here:
http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_c
ontrol/installation

13. Installing Package Control
The steps:
ctrl+`
Paste: import urllib2,os; pf='Package Control.sublime-
package'; ipp=sublime.installed_packages_path();
os.makedirs(ipp) if not os.path.exists(ipp) else None;
urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyH
andler()));
open(os.path.join(ipp,pf),'wb').write(urllib2.urlopen('http
://sublime.wbond.net/'+pf.replace(' ','%20')).read());
print('Please restart Sublime Text to finish installation')
Restart Sublime.

14. Finding treasures via the
Package Control
Ctrl+Shift+P

15. Shortcuts
Don’t touch the mouse!

16. Shortcuts (Code)
Ctrl+X – Cut current line
Ctrl+C – Copy current line
Ctrl+Shift+V – Paste and keep indention
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down – Move current line up/down
Tab (or Ctrl+]) – Indent
Shift+Tab (or Ctrl+[) – Deindent
Ctrl+/ – Toggle comment
Ctrl+Shift+/ – Toggle block comment

17. Shortcuts (Multiple Cursors)
Ctrl+L – Select current line (repeat for next line)
Ctrl+Click – Add a cursor to that position
Ctrl+Shift+L – Place cursors to the end of each
row
Ctrl+D – Select the current word and every next
occurancy of the selected thing

18. Shortcuts (Searching)
Ctrl+F – Open Search
Ctrl+I – Open Instant Search
Ctrl+Shift+F – Search in all the files in the project
Ctrl+H – Search and replace

19. Shortcuts (Tabs)
Ctrl+W – Close current file
Ctrl+N – Open new file
Ctrl+Shift+T – Open the last opened tab
Alt+[1..9] – Switch to the number of the tab
Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown – Switch between tabs
Ctrl+Tab – Switch between last viewed tabs

20. Shortcuts (Layouts)
Alt+Shift+1[2,3,4,5] – Changes the layout of the
editor
Ctrl+[1,2,3,4] – Jump to group in the changed
layout
Ctrl+Shift+[1,2,3,4] – Move the current file to
the group

21. Shortcuts (Bookmarks)
Ctrl+F2– Toggle bookmark
F2 – Go to next bookmark
Shift+F2 – Go to previous bookmark
Ctrl+Shift+F2 – Clear all bookmarks

22. Keep practicing!
And thank you!
This was A Sublime Text 2 Story
Featuring
Ninio (http://shtrak.eu/ninio)
Shtrak! (http://shtrak.eu/it)
Init Lab (http://initlab.org)