Sublime Text 2 Shortcuts

• CTRL+ALT+t : HTMLTidy
• CTRL+ALT+E : Encode special characters

• CTRL+. : close tag
• CTRL+SHIFT+[ : Fold Code
• CTRL+t : Fold Tag Attributes
• <tag + TAB = autocompletion, e.g. <a + TAB = <a href=””></a>
• <tag> + ALT + . = autocompletion, eg. <a> + ALT + . = <a></a>

• CTRL+F : Find in file
• CTRL+SHIFT+F : Find in files (or right click on folder and click Find in Folder)
• CTRL+H : Find and replace in file

• To select multiple text to edit, hold down CTRL key and click/select different text
• To select a bunch of text: hight some text at one end of your desired selection, scroll to the other end, hold SHIFT and click at the end of the other end.
• To wrap text in open/close parens, highlight text and then hold SHIFT and click “(“. Also works with “, ‘, [, [.
• To select text one character or line at a time, hold shift and hit arrow keys.
• To convert text to uppercase, select text and hit CTRL + k + u
• To convert text to lowercase, select text and hit CTRL + k + l
• To duplicate one or more lines, hit CTRL + SHIFT + D

• To toggle comment, highlight text, hit CTRL + /
• To toggle block comment, highlight text, hit CTRL + SHIFT + /

Snippets

• lorem ipsum snippet : type “lorem” and hit TAB

Typos

• look at red squigly underlines

Scrolling

• To scroll one line up, down, hit CTRL + up, down key

Preferences (Settings – User)

• To show all whitespace characters, “draw_white_space”: “all”
• To enable spell check, “spell_check”: true
• To set UTF-8 encoding, “default_encoding”: “UTF-8”

Sort Lines

• Case insensitive: Select lines, hit F9
• Case sensitive: Select lines, hit CTRL + F9

Diff

• To diff two files, select (highlight) them, right click, and click “Diff files”

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