Do you know the must-have packages for Sublime Text?

[@senpos]

One of my favorite packages is "xpath", specifically its "XPath: Query document" feature. It allows you to type in XPath query and then allows you to navigate matching nodes in the "Ctrl + Shift + P" style menu. Saves me a lot of time. What I would like to know more about Sublime packages is what is a go-to tool to add extra features to opened files context menu, or to the file tabs context menu, as by default it lacks many basic features like "Copy full path", "Copy relative path" or even "Open a folder with that file". :-)

[@OdatNurd]

Thanks! I've Added XPath to the list. I'm not aware offhand of any packages that add those kinds of items, but it would be pretty easy to come up with one if there isn't one though.

[@mohammadghasemi2402]

I'm a junior C++ developer. And I'd like to see a specialized video on C++ development using Sublime Text: How do pro C++ developers usually config Sublime Text. What packages they use and how do they use them. In summary how do pros streamline C++ development in Sublime Text. Thank you.

[@OdatNurd]

Thanks for the idea! I'll have to dig around a bit to see what others do (I just use Sublime right out of the box; I may or may not classify as a Pro though :D )

[@mohammadghasemi2402]

@@OdatNurd :D. I agree with you. Sublime is already perfect out of the box and If you install too many plugins it becomes slow like an IDE. But I just wanted to know what others do. Even it is just using Sublime unchanged.

[@ivanlegranbizarro8102]

I'd love to see some kind of guide explaining how to reconcile/combine sublime's new contextual autocomplete with LSP packages. If I install an LSP package I lose the great contextual autocomplete and its trailing symbol autocompletion. With sublime text's default autocomplete, I have more than enough, but LSP offers me too many advantages to let it slip (code formatting, linter, etc.)

[@OdatNurd]

That's an interesting idea! I suspect that LSP would have to pick up the slack on that though, if such completions are not already available in the list. LSP should be using the API to add extra completions to the list, but I think it may be actively masking other completion sources to have more control. I'll make a note to take a look at that!

[@samlouis3530]

Have you ever use Prettier Code Formatter in Sublime text? Do you recommended it? Or can you suggest code formatter that you use in Sublime text?

[@OdatNurd]

I have not, know. I've heard people talk about it though. I don't tend to use code formatters generally speaking, unfortunately.

[@samlouis3530]

@@OdatNurd I see, I was looking into this type of package since we have a project ongoing, developed by 4 developer and supervised by 1, since we all use our own different styles of coding, i thought this would make the coding seem consistent throughout the project

[@flutterflowexpert]

Thank you very much for that. I know there are a lot of videos in Internet and even in your own channel, but things move so fast in the dev world especially with the AI/DL and projects like copilot. So my first question is is there there a way to use copilot in SublimeText 4? Also I love my packages: AutoFoldCode, BetterBookmarks, BracketHighligher, SFTP, SideBarEnhancements, SublimeLinter and WordCount. But what I lack is a good auto-correct for any language (in my case English and Bulgarian), is there a good one? I can't think of any other packages that I want right now, but I will surely comment if I remember something.

[@OdatNurd]

Thanks for the suggestions! There's no package supporting CoPilot yet as far as I'm aware. I've heard some people discuss it but I don't know if they're planning on working with it or if they have access etc. I'm not aware of any autocorrect packages, except for ones that require you to specify all possible things you might get wrong, which is not overly helpful. :)

[@mtolstoyed]

This is probably not the place to ask this, but I'd love to see how to get ANSIescape working with a custom Terminus build (python in my case). I can't figure it out for the life of me.

[@OdatNurd]

That's not directly possible because both packages require that they be the command that executes the build via the `target` key. I'm unfamiliar with the ANSIEscape package specifically, but a quick check seems to indicate that all it does is interpret ANSI codes for you in the output of things, and assuming you have a decent terminal, Terminus should do that for you autmagically. Does that not work for you?

[@mtolstoyed]

​@@OdatNurd Wow, thanks for such a quick response. The 'target' key problem is exactly what I ran into, but I figured there was a clever workaround. Anyway, no, Terminus doesn't automagically interpret the ANSI codes, but after a ton of googling it seems to be that Windows 10 (gross, I know) and Python3 both have their individual bugs related to displaying ANSI. I'm probably missing/misunderstanding something yet, but in the meantime I've opted to use the py library colorama to achieve some coloring.

[@etsahi]

hi , great channel tons of info haven't managed to cover everything but since sublime is an open platform it would be great if you will make a topic oriented plugins me specific (and maybe you covered it already) i would like an LSP - how to integrate linters , python LSP episode and a debugger episode as well

[@bigarsonist9511]

Hi, @OdatNurd. I want to request the development of a new package, if possible. I would like to able to open a file using HTTPs directly in ST4. The normal use case would be: I go to file, open file.. then a option saying "Open file from remote location" would appear. I insert the URL to the file I want to read/edit and the package brings the file directly to my ST4 window (basically, ST4 downloads the file to a temporary folder on my machine). When I close the file's window, then ST will normally ask me if I want to save the file. That's the main idea. But if possible, I would like to be able to do this directly from the keyboard. For example, imagine that I've a URL in one of my files. If I select it and then press a key's combination, I would like to have the file that the previous URL pointed to be opened in a new ST4 tab - or window.

[@oneany367]

if there is a one lick installation of plugins bundle , that will be great, and make all the configurations of plugins in one place , just call bundle configuration. you know I just bla bla bla. Actually, this crazy idea comes from the journey of install Scala related plugins and configuration, such as lsp, lsp-mental, coursier, mental, key-bindings, a little bit frustrating when I found just want to run Scala project in my favorite sublime text.

[@OdatNurd]

Package Control offers the ability to mass install packages by giving it a list of them all, so there's a way to do that currently, though you'd need to know what they are ahead of time. Not sure what you mean by "make all the configurations of plugins in one place" though?

[@oneany367]

Finally

[@adinathrangnekar3064]

Can you show how to get better syntax highlighting in sublime

[@OdatNurd]

Maybe! What sort of file are you working with? What would you like to work differently?

[@etsahi]

sublime as ansible ide would be nice as well

[@harshrajgupta316]

How to use jupyter notebook in sublime?

[@narenkarthicktp]

I want to do the same.. and there is actually a package for that.. its called Helium. I have tried it but the outputs were printed in a separate tab..

[@OdatNurd]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've never used Jupyter myself, but I will add the package that NK TP suggested to the list!

[@benzflynn]

How about an MD file viewer _that actually works._ Right now I have to use *VS Code,* no less, to render .md files readable. Are you hearing me ? VS Code to read ST plugin readme files . . . ?

[@OdatNurd]

What package are you using? While Sublime can display html, it's not a full-fledged complete spec because it's a text editor and not a web browser. If there's something that's a glaring omission that's making something like a readme file not render properly, it's possible that making a feature request to extend the HTML support could help. The devs have stated several times that they believe in right tool for the job, and her right tool for displaying a web page is a web browser. So, it's likely never going to be perfect.

[@benzflynn]

@@OdatNurd I was using MarkdownPreview and MarkdownLivePreview. Both thrown out now after I had shimmering/darkening of dropdown menus and breakthrough of desktop icons onto the ST screen.

[@OdatNurd]

@@benzflynn what platform are you on? Packages have no ability to change how the menus are displayed, that's part of the operating system for window environment. Similarly they can't cause icons or your desktop to show through. Do you have hardware acceleration turned on? If so, you might want to try turning it off and see if that fixes the problem.

[@benzflynn]

@@OdatNurd Yes, it was the "hardware_acceleration": "opengl" assignment to the settings. Looks like I was over-zealous in adopting settings suggestions by Sublime Text KZbinrs. Problem seems fixed.