Software update: Sublime Text 3.2 build 3200

Sublime Text is a comprehensive text editor that will especially appeal to programmers. Among the long list possibilities features include a minimap, the ability to select different sections in a text for editing at the same time, syntax highlighting with support for over 40 languages, and the ability to use macros and Python-based plugins. to use. Sublime Text is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. A license costs $80 and that’s per user, not per machine. Version 3.2 has been released with the following changes and improvements:

Git Integration

• Files and folders in the sidebar will now display badges to indicate Git status
• Ignored files and folders are visually de-emphasized
• The current Git branch and number of modifications is displayed in the status bar
• Commands have been added to open a repository, see file or folder history, or blame a file in Sublime Merge
• Themes may customize the display of sidebar badges and status bar information
• The setting show_git_status allows disabling Git integration
• All file reads are done through a custom, high-performance Git library written for Sublime Merge
• Read the documentation

Incremental Diff

• All changes to a document are now represented by dedicated markers in the gutter
• Diff markers show added, modified and deleted lines
• The setting mini_diff controls incremental diff behavior
• In coordination with the new Git functionality, diffs can be calculated against HEAD or the index
• The git_diff_target setting controls base document source
• API methods View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() allow controlling the diff
• The following diff-related commands were added:
  • Next Modification
  • Previous Modification
  • Revert Modification
• Full inline diffs of each change can be displayed via the right-click context menu, or keyboard shortcuts
• Inline diff presentation can be changed by customizing a color scheme
• Read the documentation

Editor Control

• Added block_caret setting
• Improve positioning and sizing of gutter icons in some situations
• Fixed draw_minimap_border setting not working
• Linux: Improved input method (IM) support – fcitx, ibus, etc
• Linux: Fixed a crash when using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
• Linux: Tweaked behavior of up/down when on the first and last lines of a file to better match platform conventions
• Windows: Improved IME support

Themes/UI

• Enhanced the .sublime-theme format:
  • Added variables support and associated revised JSON format with variables key
  • Added extends keyword to have one theme derive from another
  • Colors may be specified via CSS syntax
• Improved performance with large numbers of rules in a .sublime-theme
• Linux: Moved to GTK3
• Linux: Various high DPI fixes
• Mac: Added Mojave support
• Mac: Add full support for macOS native tabs
• Mac: Ensure context menus are shown without scrolling
• Mac: Error message dialogs can now be closed with the escape key
• Mac: Improved window placement
• Mac: Improved resize performance
• Windows: Fixed minimized and maximized state not restoring
• Windows: Fixed a bug where auto complete entries would contain an ellipsis when not required

Text Rendering

• Support for Unicode 11.0
• Improved rendering or combining characters
• Fixed a caret positioning bug when non-trivial graphemes are present
• Fixed some cases of incorrect glyph positions on Windows and Mac
• Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
• Windows: Fixed a rendering issue with certain combining characters
• Windows: Fixed some fonts having an incorrect baseline

Color Schemes

• Added block_caret key to use in conjunction with block carets
• caret values ​​now respect alpha as expected, rather than pre-blending against the background color
• Added the foreground_adjust property to rules with a background. Accepts CSS color mod adjusters to manipulate the saturation, lightness or opacity of the foreground color.

Syntax Highlighting

• Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
  • Clojure, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
  • d
  • Go, with thanks to Nelo Mitranim
  • Lua, thanks to Thomas Smith
• Fixed a crash that could occur when nesting embed patterns in .sublime-syntax files
• Syntax Tests: Allow syntax test files to have a UTF-8 BOM

Files and Folders

• Improve performance of file watching for ignored paths on Windows and Mac
• Windows: Fixed Open File treating paths as case-sensitive
• Windows: Properly unlock directories after contained files are closed

API

• Added View.set_reference_document() and View.reset_reference_document() to control diff generation
• Phantoms are now drawn correctly in conjunction with draw_centered
• Various minor improvements related to plugin module loading and unloading
• Added support for hwb() colors to minihtml
• Added a custom min-contrast() adjuster for the CSS color mod function in minihtml
• Mac: Fixed a plugin_host crash when running a process that itself crashes

miscellaneous

• Fixed a Goto Symbol in Project performance regression
• F21..F24 keys can now be bound
• Assorted minor fixes and stability improvements
• Linux: Improved behavior of –wait command line argument when Sublime Text isn’t currently running