Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

  Select Line (press again to select subsequent lines): Command+L / Ctrl+L
  Split multi-line selection into multiple selections, one per line:
    Command+Shift+L / Ctrl+Shift+L
  Delete to BOL: Command+Delete / Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
  Delete to EOL: Control+K / Ctrl+K,Ctrl+K or Ctrl+Shift+Delete
  Delete Line: Control+Shift+K / Ctrl+Shift+K
  Insert Newline After: Command+Return / Ctrl+Enter
  Insert Newline Before: Command+Shift+Return / Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Multiple Selections:

  Add next occurrence of current word to selection: Command+D / Ctrl+D
  Select all occurrences of current word: Control+Command+G / Alt+F3
  Undo through selection changes: Command+U / Ctrl+U

Re: Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

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Post by jskinner » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:24 AM UTC

jacobolus wrote: post #3

For whatever it’s worth, all of these are copied directly from TextMate. :-)

While I did try to be compatible with TextMate key bindings where possible, I believe only a handful of the key bindings mentioned in the article are actually common between the two.

Re: Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

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Post by Kilimanjaro » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:36 AM UTC

I've changed some key bindings to suit my taste, like:

    Cmd-D: Duplicate line
    Cmd-L: Delete line
    Cmd-T: Insert HTML tag
    Cmd-B: Open in browser
    Ctrl+Up/Dn: Toggle lines
    Ctrl+a/e/i/o/u: Accented á é í ó ú

Sublime Text 2 has become my favorite editor, fully customizable and plenty of plugins available.

Re: Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

#8

Post by mistercow » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:48 AM UTC

Sublime Text makes me feel silly for loving a text editor so much. Now if only it would do text completion across multiple files...

Re: Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

#9

Post by sirn » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:50 AM UTC

My favorite: in HTML editing mode you can press Ctrl-Shift-A to select enclosing tag and modify both open and close tag at the same time. Very handy when editing HTML files (although I'm not sure if this is Sublime's built-in or from any third party package I installed.)

Re: Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

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Post by damncabbage » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:53 AM UTC

Vim equivalents if you're feeling jealous (matching the order in the article):

  J    Join line.

  ddp  Swap line with the one below.
  ddkP Swap line with the one above.

  dd   Delete current line
  yyp  Duplicate line

  gq}  Rewrap a paragraph.

  Vu   Lowercase a line
  VU   Uppercase a line

Sort the selection by the Unix `sort` command (eg. sort -rn for reverse numeric order):

  V 
  :!sort

It goes a bit pear-shaped for these ones, though:

  Title-Case:
  :s/\/\u\1\L\2/g

  Twiddle/Flip Case:
  function! TwiddleCase(str)
    if a:str ==# toupper(a:str)
      let result = tolower(a:str)
    elseif a:str ==# tolower(a:str)
      let result = substitute(a:str,'\(\\)', '\u\1', 'g')
    else
      let result = toupper(a:str)
    endif
    return result
  endfunction
  vnoremap ~ ygv"=TwiddleCase(@")Pgv

I'm a bit stumped on toggling comments, though. Any ideas?