Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and functions can be added by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses.
Software Installation
Install the projects PGP key:
$> wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
Ensure apt is set up to work with https sources:
$> sudo apt install apt-transport-https
Add the stable software release channel:
$> echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
Update apt sources and install Sublime Text:
$> sudo apt update
$> sudo apt install sublime-text
Package Control
Packages are a collection of resource files used by Sublime Text: plugins, syntax highlighting definitions, menus, snippets and more.
Regular users rarely need to know how to install packages by hand, as automatic package managers are available.
The de facto package manager for Sublime Text is Package Control.
To install Package Control in Sublime Text 3 open the Tools menu and select the “Install Package Control …” menu entry.
There is also a simple installation procedure for older versions.
$> cd "$HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Installed Packages/"
$> wget -O "Package Control.sublime-package" \
https://packagecontrol.io/Package%20Control.sublime-package
After that you can access it in the “Preferences” menu as “Package Comtrol”.
To install a package, select “Install a package” which opens a search box, where you can look for the package name.
Recommended Packages
EditorConfig
Sublime Text plugin for EditorConfig. Helps developers maintain consistent coding styles between different editors
Emacs-like Modelines
Emacs-like Modelines for Sublime Text 2 (and 3).
Sublime Linter
The code linting framework for Sublime Text 3.
lint, or a linter, is a static code analysis tool used highlight programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and suspicious constructs. The term originates from a Unix utility that examined C language source code.
You then install plug-ins for any script and programming languages you need.
SublimeLinter-shellcheck
This linter plugin for SublimeLinter provides an interface to shellcheck, to find bugs in shell-scripts.
Before using this plug-in, ensure that shellcheck is installed on your system:
$> sudo apt install shellcheck
SublimeLinter-php
SublimeLinter 3 plugin for PHP, using php -l.
This requires that a php command-line interpreter is installed as well:
$> sudo apt install php-cli
nginx
Syntax highlighting for Nginx configuration files.
INI
Syntax highlighting for INI and REG files in Sublime Text.
HTML-CSS-JS Prettify
This is a Sublime Text 2 and 3 plugin allowing you to format your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, React and Vue code. It uses a set of nice beautifier scripts made by Einar Lielmanis. The formatters are written in JavaScript, so you’ll need something like node.js to interpret the JavaScript code outside the browser.
This will work with either HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, React and Vue files.
To install Node:
$> sudo apt install nodejs
Using Sublime Text with git
Setup git to use Sublime Text as default editor:
$> git config --global core.editor "subl --new-window --wait"