Wes Bos

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Category Archives: Sublime Text

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Code Folding in Sublime Text 2

Posted on October 3, 2011 by wesbos

To continue on with my string of blog posts on Sublime Text 2, I’m going to show you a short but handy feature that was just pushed to the stable build. Code Folding!

Unfortunately, collapsing of code in sublime text isn’t exactly the same as textmate, so you dont get the little arrows in the sidebar. The code is also folded into a single character which makes it easy to delete an entire block of folded code without noticing you have done so. This is the first iteration of code folding in sublime text 2, so I’m sure it will only get better. With those cautions in mind lets take a look at how to work code folding in Sublime.
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Sublime Text 2 Build System Scripts: CoffeeScript & Node

Posted on September 28, 2011 by wesbos

A really great feature of Sublime Text 2 is the ability to create your own build scripts. A build script is helpful when you are writing in a language that needs to be compiled or executed from terminal / command line. I personally use build scripts to compile the current file into CoffeeScript as well as run the current file in Node JS.

Watch the tutorial or continue reading to learn how to make Sublime Text 2 build scripts.
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