Sublime Hints

Tips for using sublime

Selecting text

• ctrl-D to select a word. Continue hitting ctrl-D to select subsequent instances of that word.
• ctrl-L to select a line.
• ctrl-A to select the entire document.
• ctrl-shift-M to select something inside a set of brackets
• ctrl-shift-up_arrow to move the current line up one (and likewise with down arrow)

Multicursor

If you want to add or remove characters from the beginning or end of a selection of lines from your document:

1. Go to the first line of your selection, and hit ctrl-L to select that line
2. Continue hitting ctrl-L until every line you want has been selected.
3. Hit ctrl-shift-L and your selection will remain, with a cursor at the end of each line.
4. Use your keyboard's arrow keys to move the cursor. This will give you a cursor at the same position on each line, relative to the beginning or end of the line.
5. Type whatever you wanted to in, and it will repeat on every line.
6. esc to get your single cursor back

Open from terminal

If you are in a bash terminal and want to open that directory in sublime:

subl .

The . (period) is short hand for the current directory.

Any directory can be opened in this way.

subl ~/path/to/my/directory

Fix mouse scroll wheel

I work on a laptop with touchpad and external mouse. Sometimes the scroll wheel on my mouse stops working in Sublime. If I tap on my touchpad, the scroll wheel's powers are reset.