Sublime Text Kit

A command line interface for managing Sublime Text metadata.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Screencasts
• Requirements
• Setup
• Usage
  • Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Customization
  • Workflow
  • Troubleshooting
• Tests
• Versioning
• Code of Conduct
• Contributions
• License
• History
• Credits

Features

• Provides project metadata (i.e. *.sublime-project and *.sublime-workspace files) management for project switching via the CONTROL+COMMAND+P shortcut.
• Rebuilds project history (Project -> Recent Projects) from existing project files (assumes project metadata is in a directory) so one can easily toggle between up-to-date project information via the CONTROL+COMMAND+P shortcut.

Screencasts

Requirements

1. Ruby 2.4.x.
2. Sublime Text 2.

Setup

For a secure install, type the following from the command line (recommended):

gem cert --add <(curl --location --silent https://www.alchemists.io/gem-public.pem)
gem install sublime_text_kit --trust-policy MediumSecurity

NOTE: A HighSecurity trust policy would be best but MediumSecurity enables signed gem verification while allowing the installation of unsigned dependencies since they are beyond the scope of this gem.

For an insecure install, type the following (not recommended):

gem install sublime_text_kit

Usage

Command Line Interface (CLI)

From the command line, type: sublime_text_kit

sublime_text_kit -c, [--config]        # Manage gem configuration.
sublime_text_kit -h, [--help=COMMAND]  # Show this message or get help for a command.
sublime_text_kit -m, [--metadata]      # Manage project/workspace metadata.
sublime_text_kit -s, [--session]       # Manage session metadata.
sublime_text_kit -u, [--update]        # Update Sublime Text with current settings.
sublime_text_kit -v, [--version]       # Show gem version.

For configuration options, type: sublime_text_kit --help --config

-e, [--edit], [--no-edit]  # Edit gem configuration.
-i, [--info], [--no-info]  # Print gem configuration.

For metadata options, type: sublime_text_kit --help --metadata

-c, [--create], [--no-create]    # Create metadata.
-D, [--destroy], [--no-destroy]  # Destroy metadata.
-R, [--rebuild], [--no-rebuild]  # Rebuild metadata.

For session options, type: sublime_text_kit --help --session

-R, [--rebuild], [--no-rebuild]  # Rebuild session metadata.

Customization

This gem can be configured via a global configuration:

~/.config/sublime_text_kit/configuration.yml

It can also be configured via XDG environment variables as provided by the Runcom gem.

An example configuration could be:

:project_roots:
  - "~/Dropbox/Development/Misc"
  - "~/Dropbox/Development/OSS"
  - "~/Dropbox/Development/Work"
:metadata_dir: "~/Dropbox/Cache/Sublime"

Feel free to take this configuration, modify, and save as your own custom configuration.yml.

The project roots define the root level directories where project folders are located. When project metadata (i.e. *.sublime-project, *.sublime-workspace) is generated, the name of the metadata file will be the same name as that of the project folder. All project metadata, regardless of root location, is written to the same metadata directory. If using the example settings shown above and assuming the following directory structure exists...

~/Dropbox/Development/Misc/example
~/Dropbox/Development/OSS/sublime_text_kit

...the project metadata will be created in the workspace directory as follows:

~/Dropbox/Cache/Sublime/example.sublime-project
~/Dropbox/Cache/Sublime/example.sublime-workspace
~/Dropbox/Cache/Sublime/sublime_text_kit.sublime-project
~/Dropbox/Cache/Sublime/sublime_text_kit.sublime-workspace

Workflow

The following demonstrates a default Sublime Text setup:

1. Run: sublime_text_kit --config --edit (define Sublime Text Kit settings for project roots and metadata directory).
2. Shutdown Sublime Text (i.e. CONTROL+Q).
3. Run: sublime_text_kit --metadata --create (creates project metadata and rebuilds the session metadata so Sublime Text has a complete project history from which to jump through via the CONTROL+COMMMAND+P shortcut).
4. Launch Sublime Text and use the CONTROL+COMMAND+P keyboard shortcut to toggle between projects. Notice that you can (fuzzy type) project names to jump between them.
5. Breeze through your project workload with ease. :)

Troubleshooting

• When rebuilding workspaces, ensure Sublime Text is shutdown or changes won't be applied.
• When rebuilding workspaces, ensure workspace_dir (as defined via settings.yml) points to a directory containing *.sublime-project and *.sublime-workspace files.

Tests

To test, run:

bundle exec rake

Versioning

Read Semantic Versioning for details. Briefly, it means:

• Major (X.y.z) - Incremented for any backwards incompatible public API changes.
• Minor (x.Y.z) - Incremented for new, backwards compatible, public API enhancements/fixes.
• Patch (x.y.Z) - Incremented for small, backwards compatible, bug fixes.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a CODE OF CONDUCT. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Contributions

Read CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Alchemists. Read LICENSE for details.

History

Read CHANGES for details. Built with Gemsmith.

Credits

Developed by Brooke Kuhlmann at Alchemists.