How do I configure Sublime Text 2 so that it recognizes a file named Makefile.local as a Makefile, so I don't have to manually do "Set Syntax: Makefile" when I open this file?
Add the tag <string>Makefile.local</string> to the <array> section in Makefile.tmLanguage file.
<dict>
<key>fileTypes</key>
<array>
<string>Makefile.local</string>
<string>GNUmakefile</string>
<string>makefile</string>
<string>Makefile</string>
<string>OCamlMakefile</string>
<string>make</string>
</array>
<key>name</key>
...
To find the file, click on Preferences | Browse Packages... menu.
The file can be used to change more Syntax Definition options.
You can turn on syntax highlighting based on the contents of the file.
For example, I have numerous makefiles named Makefile.msp430 and similar, having 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", but you can improve it.
<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 new Makefile.tmLanguage in the User settings directory:
~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Makefile.tmLanguage
From now on, the files matching the first line rules should turn on the syntax highlighting.
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I was looking around and the questions and answers did not seem to match what I am looking for (Sublime Text 3). Anytime I open a new file it defaults to a plain text file. I mostly work with PHP files so I was wondering if there is a setting that would be changed so that when I open a new file it will default to PHP.
I tried to find this directory path "Packages/Text/Plain_text.tmLanguage" here:
C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\Packages
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages
But I did not find the "tmLanguage" files.
Reference: Sublime Text 2 - Default Document Type
The .tmLanguage files are within the .sublime-package files which are secretly simple archives holding all files necessary for a package to work.
Add a .zip extension to the .sublime-package file that contains the PHP settings and you can extract the .tmLanguage file you want as your new default.
Once you have that file, follow the instructions from the question you linked to and you should be good to go.
Set default file type in Sublime Text
Rather than messing with the files in your OS and adding a .zip extension to one of them …
… if you want to find the directory path to a built-in .sublime-syntax or a .tmLanguage file install PacakgeResourceViewer from Package Control.
After installing, use command palette to Package Resource Viewer: Open Resource and find PHP.sublime-syntax.
You can then see the path is Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax.
then:
Install DefaultFileType and edit its configuration file: Packages/User/default_file_type.sublime-settings as follows:
{ "default_new_file_syntax": "Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax",
"use_current_file_syntax": false }
Now your new files will default to sublime's built-in PHP syntax highlighting.
Let's say that i have file /home/foo/myfile without extension. Is there option to add syntax setting into this file? In vim it's :set syntax=javascript. I know that in Sublime you can set default syntax color.
There's similar question Changing default syntax based on filename but there you set specific filename. I need to set it in file itself, since i have a lot of different files without extension.
The package ApplySyntax should be able to do what you want.
ApplySyntax is a plugin for Sublime Text 2 and 3 that allows you to
detect and apply the syntax of files that might not otherwise be
detected properly. For example, files with the .rb extension are
usually Ruby files, but when they are found in a Rails project, they
could be RSpec spec files, Cucumber step files, Ruby on Rails files
(controllers, models, etc), or just plain Ruby files. This is actually
the problem I was trying to solve when I started working on this
plugin.
Set your rules/filenames in the ApplySyntax.sublime-settings file:
// "rules" is a list (array) of checks that you want to make against
the file in the current view. A rule is either a regular expression
or a function. If using a regular expression, you can specify
whether you want it tested against the "file_name" or the first
line of the file (think shebangs and xml files). If the rule is a
function, you must provide the path to the file containing the
function and the name of the function to call. When this function is
called, the "file_name" will be passed to it as the only argument.
You are free to do whatever you want in your function, just return
True or False.
you can do this on the fly through the command menu (on OSX cmd+shift+p, windows ctrl+shift+p) then type what you need (e.g. javascript) and it will come up in the list set syntax: JavaScript.
Sublime will remember this until you close the file
In my PhpStorm, the file index.php, doesn't look like a PHP script, but a plain text file. How can I fix it?
Settings | File Types | Text files
Find and remove unwanted pattern there -- I expect this to be index.php or very similar
Similar SO questions:
PHPStorm renders a particular file name as plain text
Pycharm utils.py not getting syntax highlight
Follow this steps:
Open PHPStorm settings by using Ctrl+Alt+S
In search box type File types
Select file types option from left side panel
Find PHP Files (PHP) from Recognized file types
Check for .php extension in below area (Registered Patterns). If not found add PHP.
Right click on index.php and select "Mark as PHP".
(This option is there on PHPStorm 7.x, I'm not sure about 6.)
I Am trying to write an own language definition for Promela/Spin and installing it in my Sublime Text.
But I cannot find any way how I can Install the definition.
What format do they need to be in? JSON? PLIST? Where do I need to put them to use?
http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/extensibility/syntaxdefs.html
Sublime Text uses property list (Plist) files to store syntax definitions. However, because editing XML files is a cumbersome task, we’ll use JSON instead, and convert it to Plist format afterwards. This is where the AAAPackageDev package (mentioned above) comes in.
http://sublimetext.info/docs/en/extensibility/packages.html
This is an exhaustive list of Sublime Text resources than can be found inside a package:
... ... syntax definitions (.tmLanguage) ... ...
Installing a package:
There are three main ways to install packages:
.sublime-package archives
version control systems
copy-pasting of files
How do I search in a folder in sublime text 2 with file extension?
My where when I use:
*.js
searches globally for all js files.
If I try to restrict it to a folder:
/project/*.js
it matches nothing.
Instead of this:
/project/*.js
Try using this:
project .js
This should match files which have project in the path and have a .js extension
EDIT: The above assumes you're trying to find all the files with .js extension using the Goto Anything feature in Sublime Text.
In case you'd like to search within .js files located within a directory, you can add an Include Filter in the search path:
/project,*.js
This will search for the text you've entered, limiting the scope to files within /project and it's sub-directories having the extension .js.
Reference: Sublime Text Docs - Search Scope
EDIT 2: For Sublime Text 3, refer Simons answer below.
godfrzero's answer does not work in Sublime 3 as it actually includes ALL JS files plus ALL files in the project folder.
Instead, you need to specify it similar to how you had it originally...
project/*.js
Note that there's no leading slash, as that will treat it as an absolute path which you won't want in most cases. To include multiple file types within the folder, I think you need to specify it like this:
folder/*.ctp,folder/*.php
This will match any of the following files:
/app/folder/example.ctp
/app/folder/example.php
/app/folder/subfolder/example.ctp
/app/long/path/folder/subfolder/example.php
I know you asked about Sublime 2, but hopefully this helps others (like myself) who are Googling for such advice.
Simon.
My Sublime ver: 3.2.2
Adding to above answers, I was trying to find in all python files starting with test_ . so this is how I did it.
After pressing Ctrl+Shift+F, in the window.
Where : /home/WorkDir/test, test_*.py