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Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by toran1302 » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:10 PM UTC

Another one i've found useful is CMD+D / CMD+K+D. CMD+D finds the next instance of the current selection and creates another cursor there (and selects it as well). CMD+K+D skips the current selection and finds the next one.

A fine grained find+replace/modify :)

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by pastr » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:11 PM UTC

For more ST keyboard shortcuts: https://gist.github.com/1736542

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by Calvein » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:20 PM UTC

ashamedlion wrote: post #5

redfloatplane wrote: post #3

Further to point F: if you hold down control, you move by word segment - this is camel-case (and underscore) aware. So, if I am at the front of the word "cakeParty", I can move to between 'e' and 'P' by holding control and pressing the right arrow key. (This is in ST2 for Mac OS X - I'm sure there's an equivalent feature in ST2 for other systems.)

I added your tip to the list, thanks!

On Linux (and WIndows I presume) it's with the alt key.

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by davidlumley » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

When you mention cursor, I assume you mean caret? Similar to Textmate?

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by haasted » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:29 PM UTC

Cmd + d selects the current word.

Subsequent Cmd + d presses will select the following instance of the word for editing. Makes it easy to do things such as renaming a local variable or changing both the opening and closing element of a HTML tag.

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by taylorbuley » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:49 PM UTC

Is it possible to do multi-line editing like Sublime Text but in Vim? I use both, and this was the feature that got me out of Terminal, but besides this I can't think of anything else offhand for what ST2 can do that Vim can't do.

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by pooriaazimi » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

draftable wrote: post #6

You can also move the curent line up and down the page using Ctrl + Cmd + Up/Down

I curse myself whenever I think about it. For the longest time, I didn't know about this shortcut. I missed it terribly, but I was too thick to understand that I can search through the manuals or internet to find if such a shortcut exists... I used it a hundred times daily (Java, Eclipse), but the need for it is much greater in CoffeeScript+Node.js

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by mathieuh » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

deviarte wrote: post #10

I am pretty sure that "Quick file opening" is CTRL+P on Windows. Since CTRL+T opens a new tab for me..

Yep. Basically, Textmate's Goto Anything feature is activated by cmd+t, so ST's author mapped both cmd+t and cmd+p to Goto Anything on OS X to accommodate people switching over. On OS X, Goto Symbol is actually cmd+r.

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by mattacular » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

redfloatplane wrote: post #3

Further to point F: if you hold down control, you move by word segment - this is camel-case (and underscore) aware. So, if I am at the front of the word "cakeParty", I can move to between 'e' and 'P' by holding control and pressing the right arrow key. (This is in ST2 for Mac OS X - I'm sure there's an equivalent feature in ST2 for other systems.)

The command and alt modifiers work when I use the arrow key but this ctrl doesn't seem to do anything... OS X lion. For example, I put the caret in front of a camelCased variable and press ctrl+right arrow, nothing happens. Am I doing it wrong?

Re: Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

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Post by ohgodthecat3 » Sun, Jul 15, 2012, 2:10 PM UTC

You can also get multiple cursors from the keyboard with ctrl+alt+(uparrow or downarrow) not the most convenient of keybindings but can be rebound if you look for "select_line" in the default keybindings. (Linux and Windows)