Useful Sublime Text 3 packages

Jan 8, 2014

Everyone seems to publish a list of his or her favorite Sublime Text packages. This is my list and if you do not use Sublime Text, you should.

General

Package Control

Everyone needs this to simplify the installation of packages. All of the following packages can be installed using Package Control.

Theme Soda

I prefer the SODA Dark UI theme. Must be enabled via the preferences configuration file. See below for a sample configuration.

Tomorrow Color Schemes

I like this. Personal taste, of course.

Programming

AutoPEP8 and Python Flake8 Lint

Two essential packages for Python development. Instant quality assurance.

Code Intel

Code auto-completion and navigation. Supports several languages.

GoSublime

Provides an almost complete IDE for Golang development.

CMake

Syntax highlighting for CMake files.

Utilities for editing

Pretty JSON

Provides simple shortcuts to format and check JSON strings.

Bracket Highlighter

Highlights almost everything that might be something like brackets.

TrailingSpaces

Highlights trailing whitespaces and provides the possibility to remove them all. Useful to cleanup source code files and to edit markdown files.

Markdown Preview

Preview compiled Markdown files directly in the browser.

Misc. utilities

Plain Tasks

“An opinionated todo-list plugin” - it turns out that I have a similar opinion. Very useful to keep track of short task lists.

Syntax Highlighting for Coco/R

My personal contribution to the Sublime Text package universe. If you create compilers using Coco/R, you might find this useful.

Sublime Text settings

Finally, some minor tweaks of the editor settings and the result is a powerful and productive work environment. My current user settings are …

{
  "caret_style": "solid",
  "close_windows_when_empty": true,
  "color_scheme":
    "Packages/Tomorrow Color Schemes/Tomorrow-Night-Bright.tmTheme",
  "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
  "font_size": 9,
  "highlight_line": true,
  "ignored_packages": ["Vintage"],
  "rulers": [79, 119, 139],
  "tab_size": 4,
  "theme": "Soda Dark 3.sublime-theme",
  "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
}

All described packages work with Sublime Text 3 on Linux and Windows.