Posted: July 6, 2019

Updated: December 23, 2022

I love Sublime Text 3. It is reliable, extremely configurable, cross-platform, and very fast.

I can open a file with 50,000 lines in a couple of seconds on a laptop with 4gb of RAM.

This is a guide to how I set up Sublime Text 3 on Arch Linux. I use Neovintageous for Vim keybinds and the Oceanic Next color scheme.

1. Install Sublime

Sublime has a pacman repository available, so installation is easy: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/linux_repositories.html#pacman

After installation, add your license key:

Help > Enter License

2. Install Packages

First install Package Control inside Sublime:

Ctrl + Shift + P > Install

Then, to install a package, do the same thing:

Ctrl + Shift + P > Package Control: Install Package

These are my favorite packages:

• FileDiffs
• JsPrettier
• MarkdownPreview
• Naomi
• NeoVintageous
• Oceanic Next Color Scheme
• Pretty JSON
• Sass
• Sublack
• SublimeLinter
• SublimeLinter-addon-black-for-flake
• SublimeLinter-eslint
• SublimeLinter-flake8
• TypeScript
• WordCount

3. Paste user settings

These are my preferred user settings:

{
	"always_prompt_for_file_reload": true,
	"auto_close_tags": false,
	"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": true,
	"auto_match_enabled": false,
	"caret_style": "solid",
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Oceanic Next Color Scheme/Oceanic Next.tmTheme",
	"default_line_ending": "unix",
	"detect_indentation": false,
	"drag_text": false,
	"draw_indent_guides": false,
	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
	"font_face": "Source Code Pro",
	"font_size": 13,
	"highlight_line": true,
	"highlightedyank_duration": 150,
	"hot_exit": false,
	"ignored_packages":
	[
		"Six",
		"Vintage",
		"Vintageous"
	],
	"neovintageous_build_version": 11100,
	"remember_open_files": true,
	"scroll_past_end": false,
	"theme": "Default.sublime-theme",
	"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
	"vintageous_handle_keys":
	{
		"<C-n>": false,
		"<C-o>": false,
		"<C-r>": false,
		"<C-s>": false,
		"<C-w>": false,
		"<C-y>": false
	},
	"vintageous_reset_mode_when_switching_tabs": false,
	"vintageous_use_sys_clipboard": true,
	"wide_caret": true,
	"word_wrap": true
}

4. Paste keybinds

• alt+t opens a fuzzy file switcher
• ctrl+alt+j expands JSON
• ctrl+alt+m minimizes JSON

The fuzzy file switcher needs to be specified manually:

[
	{
		"keys": ["alt+t"],
		"command": "show_overlay",
		"args": {
			"overlay": "goto",
			"show_files": true
		}
	}
]

5. Configure other settings

I don’t like the minimap:

View > Hide Minimap

JsPrettier Config:

{
	"additional_cli_args": { "--config-precedence": "prefer-file" },
	"auto_format_on_save": true,
	"disable_prettier_cursor_offset": true
}

Sublack Config:

{
    "black_on_save": true
}

Neovintageous: Use the Command pallete to access NeoVintageous: Open RC File

Set the RC file to:

set smartcase
set ignorecase