Showing posts with label Sublime Text tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sublime Text tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Sublime Text 3 Color Picker Install Guide

Color Picker is a great tool to add into Sublime Text 3.

How many times do you want to see how a color change would look, but before you can you have to leave your editor? 

Well no more. Head on over and install this color picker for Sublime Text 3:


A great plugin to have that saves lots of time.

Once installed, the Color Picker can be invoked within Sublime Text 3 via:


Microsoft Windows: ctrl + shift + c

Mac OS X: cmd + shift + c

Linux: ctrl + shift + c

From there, you'll be able to make your color choices. 

Installing Themes in Sublime Text

One of the quickest ways it install a theme is to place it directly into the necessary folder within your Sublime Text installation. This guide assumes you 1. Already have a theme file (.thTheme) and you know where it's saved to. 2. That you're running a version of Windows.

To install a theme:

1. Right-click and copy or paste the .thTheme file.

2. Go to this folder:  C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\ User

Note: The folder name for Sublime Text may vary by version, but will still be under C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming

3. Paste in the .thTheme file.

4. Restart Sublime Text if it was already opened. 

5. Open Sublime Text. Go to: Preferences -> Color Scheme and chose your recently installed theme.

There you have it. A quick way to install themes without using a package manager.

Sublime Text GOTO Line

   In Sublime Text, there is a nifty keyboard shortcut that will take your cursor to whatever line you want in your source file.

To try/check this out type: ctrl + G 

A little box will appear and you will be able to input which line number in your source file you would like to navigate to.