There's no point of enabling spell check for your html/js/css/c/php/py/etc files, but it can be very useful when you are writing in Markdown.
How to enable spell check only for only certain file extensions?
You can add a syntax specific setting:
Open a file with the syntax you want to enable spell checking for (markdown).
Open menu Preferences > Settings - More > Syntax Specific - User
Set the content or add the spell_check setting:
{"spell_check": true}
Save
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I would like to edit my default settings in Sublime Text 3 (beta build 3059) to not ignore the Vintage package - via Preferences > Settings - Default. I am running Sublime Text on Windows 7 Pro x64.
The Vintage package's documentation says to edit and save the default settings file to enable Vintage mode:
When I click the Settings - Default menu item, the default Preferences.sublime-settings file opens with expected content; but I cannot edit it. For example, deleting or backspacing to remove "Vintage" in "ignored_packages": ["Vintage"] does nothing.
I thought maybe the default settings file was marked readonly and tried to check it: C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Default\Preferences.sublime-settings does not exist. C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Default does not exist either.
To work around this, I tried to save the default settings file that Sublime Text opened for me - to see if that would create the Default directory and Preferences.sublime-settings in it. Instead Sublime Text gave the following error:
Unable to save C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Default\Preferences.sublime-settings
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
Has anyone encountered this issue with Sublime Text 3 (specifically in trying to enable Vintage mode or otherwise) and worked around it...or found an authoritative explanation for it?
I reason that next I could try to add the missing Default directory myself, create an empty Preferences.sublime-settings text file in it, and try again to save the default settings file that Sublime Text opened for me; but this is starting to feel kludgy.
You should not edit the default settings. Add the files you want to ignore to the file Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings. You can open this file by going to Preferences - >Settings - User. Anything you set here will override the default settings.
I understand that you want to Not ignore the Vintage rather.
This still can be done using the Preferences.sublime-setting-User. AFAIK, any value given in this file overwrites the entries in Preferences.sublime-setting-Default.
Simply add this line with the "Vintage" removed in it to your User preferences and you'll be fine. (Remember to save the file after you did the edit and the change will happen instantly)
Also, not that VI mode in sublime is on edit more by default so make sure you press Esc first to make sure VI is activated.
// Settings in here override those in "Default/Preferences.sublime-settings",
// and are overridden in turn by file type specific settings.
{
"ignored_packages": []
}
Update
The latest format is,
{
"ignored_packages":
[
// Line below is commented out to enable Vintage.
//"Vintage"
],
// To start Sublime in Command moder
// rather than Insert mode.
"vintage_start_in_command_mode": true
}
Install 'PackageResourceViewer' from 'Install Package' in the Command Palette.
Then use 'PackageResourceViewer' command in the Command Palette.
Use that to extract/open the default packages you previously were unable to.
More information here : https://github.com/skuroda/PackageResourceViewer
I use Sublime Text3 recently in Windows 10. I'm trying to change the file: Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings. And met your problem "Enable to sa ve Preferences.sublime-settings".
I solve this by changing file Preferences.sublime-settings's property, in Security, edit "user"'s permissions. Allowed to modify.
And then I can edit and save Preferences.sublime-settings
When I install Sublime Text in Linux, I report the message NOTADIRECTORYERROR: [ERRNO 20] NOT A DIRECTORY. At first I thought it was because the Defalut folder was missing, but later I realized it wasn't. I then checked the Settings of my SublimeREPL. Sublime-setings and deleted the contents after bin, and found that the program worked fine.
old: "default_extend_env": {"PATH": "{PATH}:/home/bgnv5/anaconda3/bin/python"},
new: "default_extend_env": {"PATH": "{PATH}:/home/bgnv5/anaconda3/bin/"},
Spent a lot of time to find problems, I hope to help you.
I'm (trying to) using CSS Lint plugin for Sublime Text 2.
Once I've run it, I can't remove the highlight.
"Escape" just remove the console window.
Hitting again the command just "re-lints".
How can I remove the highlight?
Thanks
Changing the Preferences for a ST2 Plugin
Go to Preferences -> Package Settings -> CSS Lint
Choose Settings - Default to see the default settings for this
plugin.
If there are items in this section you would like to change, copy and paste the default settings in the Settings - User file, and then change them there.
This process will ensure that your changed settings are preserved if/when the plugin is updated.
Another Plugin Option
As a side note, I prefer using SublimeLinter. It includes cssLint and has a pretty robust set of settings options. You can find more information about this plugin on this SO question.
I have an option trim_trailing_white_space_on_save turned on. And for some files I should prevent removing trailing white spaces, because they are important.
How to remove this behaviour for some files, e.g. *.dat?
Have you already tried to create a configuration file for that specific extension and put trim_trailing_white_space_on_save = false ?
Settings Files
Settings files are consulted in this order:
Packages/Default/Preferences.sublime-settings
Packages/Default/Preferences (< platform >).sublime-settings
Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings
< Project Settings >
Packages/< syntax >/< syntax >.sublime-settings
Packages/User/.sublime-settings
< Buffer Specific Settings >
In general, you should place your settings in Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings.
If you want to specify settings for a certain file type, for example, Python, you should place them in Packages/User/Python.sublime-settings.
http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/settings.html
In Sublime 3, just open any file with the extension you'd like to have specific settings for, and go to Preferences > Settings - Syntax Specific.
In my case I did it for Markdown (.md) and Sublime created a Markdown.sublime-settings file in which I added the following:
"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": false,
In your case, for a .dat file, Sublime will create a Plain text.sulbime-settings file in which you can add the exact same setting.
I am working on setting up my own keymaps and was wondering if there is the option to set keys to switch the file type that is being worked on. So for example, if I have a regular plain text file and want it to be a css file, I would have a keymap that would change the document type to css. Possible? If so, please explain to me how you have done this.
Rob
The keybinding for this would be:
{
"keys": ["YOUR_SEQUENCE"],
"command": "set_file_type",
"args": {"syntax": "Packages/CSS/CSS.tmLanguage"}
}
How to discover command names:
Open the console
Type sublime.log_commands(True)
Go to an open tab
Open the command palette and type Set Syntax: CSS
The name of the command and it's required arguments should be logged to the console. From there you just put it in the right JSON syntax.
While the individual shortcut solution is great, it requires editing the config files and most importantly remembering all the shortcuts you create for each sytax.
In the case of switching file formats it might be more useful to quickly access the required format via the command palette:
Press CTRL+SHIFT+P to bring up the Command Palette
Type CSS to highlight Set Syntax: CSS command
Press ENTER
This is great because it provides quick access to all the formats available. Start typing set syntax... and all the available formats will be shown.
How do I set a default filetype for a certain file extension in Sublime Text 2? Specifically I want to have *.cfg files default to having Ini syntax highlighting but I cannot seem to figure out how I could create this custom setting.
In the current version of Sublime Text 2 (Build: 2139), you can set the syntax for all files of a certain file extension using an option in the menu bar. Open a file with the extension you want to set a default for and navigate through the following menus: View -> Syntax -> Open all with current extension as... ->[your syntax choice].
Updated 2012-06-28: Recent builds of Sublime Text 2 (at least since Build 2181) have allowed the syntax to be set by clicking the current syntax type in the lower right corner of the window. This will open the syntax selection menu with the option to Open all with current extension as... at the top of the menu.
Updated 2016-04-19: As of now, this also works for Sublime Text 3.
Go to a Packages/User, create (or edit) a .sublime-settings file named after the Syntax where you want to add the extensions, Ini.sublime-settings in your case, then write there something like this:
{
"extensions":["cfg"]
}
And then restart Sublime Text
In ST2 there's a package you can install called Default FileType which does just that.
More info here.
You can turn on syntax highlighting based on the contents of the file.
For example, my Makefiles regardless of their extension the first line as follows:
#-*-Makefile-*- vim:syntax=make
This is typical practice for other editors such as vim.
However, for this to work you need to modify the
Makefile.tmLanguage file.
Find the file (for Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu) at:
/opt/sublime_text/Packages/Makefile.sublime-package
Note, that is really a zip file. Copy it, rename with .zip at the end, and extract the Makefile.tmLanguage file from it.
Edit the new Makefile.tmLanguage by adding the "firstLineMatch" key and string after the "fileTypes" section. In the example below, the last two lines are new (should be added by you). The <string> section holds the regular expression, that will enable syntax highlighting for the files that match the first line. This expression recognizes two patterns: "-*-Makefile-*-" and "vim:syntax=make".
...
<key>fileTypes</key>
<array>
<string>GNUmakefile</string>
<string>makefile</string>
<string>Makefile</string>
<string>OCamlMakefile</string>
<string>make</string>
</array>
<key>firstLineMatch</key>
<string>^#\s*-\*-Makefile-\*-|^#.*\s*vim:syntax=make</string>
Place the modified Makefile.tmLanguage in the User settings directory:
~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Makefile.tmLanguage
All the files matching the first line rule should turn the syntax highlighting on when opened.
The best solution for me turned out to be to used the ApplySyntax package.
The steps are as follows:
Install the package via Package Control
CTRL + SHIFT + P and enter ApplySyntax: Browse Syntaxes. Find your desired syntax here and note the exact line shown, e.g. I was looking to set it to Markdown from the Markdown Editing package, so for me the line was MarkdownEditing/syntaxes/Markdown.
CTRL + SHIFT + P and enter ApplySyntax: Settings.
On line "new_file_syntax": "XYZ", enter the line from Step 2.
See here for further documentation.
I found this to work better than the DefaultFileType package, because it isn't limited to just new files created by pressing CTRL + N and captured new tabs opened by clicking the empty space to the right of an open tab.
I hope is useful to someone 11 years after the original question was asked. 😅