Configuring Sublime Text 3
Some days ago I stumbled across this website, which checks if your installed Sublime plugins are compatible with Sublime Text 3. As all of mine were already compatible I made the switch. Nevertheless I had to spend some time migrating, because there are some differences in setting up Sublime’s snippets and SublimeLinter.
#Disabling default snippets
By default Sublime has some snippets installed that you may find useful. Personally I like to use my own, therefore I disable the pre-installed ones. In Sublime Text 2 this could be done by deleting the snippets from the Packages folder. Unfortunately updates reverted those changes.
Sublime Text 3 handles its internal snippets differently. They are now stored directly as bundled packages inside of the main app, but can be overwritten by adding a snippet with the same name in the Packages folder. To extract all snippets of a language there is a package called PackageResourceViewer, which is available in Package Control. Simply install the package, search for the “PackageResourceViewer: Extract Package” command and choose the language with the snippets you want to edit or disable.
All files inside this package will now be copied to your Packages folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/. Now you can edit the pre-installed snippets and completions by opening files with the extensions .sublime-snippet or .sublime-completions. Sometimes there are also some completions stored as python files, for example css_completions.py.
If you simply want to disable the default auto-completions, open these files and remove all content. Empty files are evaluated as if there is no snippet/completion. To benefit from future updates, I recommend deleting all other files that have been extracted to your Packages folder, as these are language definitions and settings.
#SublimeLinter3
I use SublimeLinter for JavaScript programming. Its latest update, which only works with Sublime Text 3, has some major changes. The main package does now operate as a framework for different linters and each linter has its own package in Package Control.
To use jshint you have to install the SublimeLinter and SublimeLinter-jshint package. SublimeLinter-jshint requires node and jshint to be installed globally. If you use zsh and nvm like I do, you’ll also have to add your current node version to your PATH in a .zshenv file, e.g. export PATH=$PATH:/Users/max/.nvm/v0.10.26/bin. Otherwise SublimeLinter won’t find jshint. There also is a path setting for different operating systems in the new SublimeLinter.sublime-settings file, but adding the path there didn’t work for me.