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Why I love ST2: multi-platform, fuzzy search, plugins, multiple cursors, JSON config files.

My setup:

- Package Control plugin: the very first thing you should setup after installing ST2 (it should really be a part of ST2)

- Next step sync config files over Dropbox to get exactly the same editing environment from Win, Mac, and Linux

  - move the /User folder under "Sublime Text 2/Packages" over to Dropbox/ST2/User

  - in Win goto CMD and from the %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2\Packages folder enter: mklink /D "User" "path to\My Dropbox\ST2\User"

  - in Mac OSX/Linux goto the Packages folder (you can find the location under >Preferences>Browse Preferences) and enter: ln -s pathto/Dropbox/Sublime\ Text\ 2/User ./User

  - the fantastic thing with this setup is that in any new machines, Package Control will automatically take care of installing any missing plugins
- Keybindings: tons of customizations to suit what I am used to and work across all OS's

- Theme: Soda Dark

- Colors: Made of Code

- My favorite plugins: Alignment, Bracket Highlighter, Emmett, FileDiffs, SublimeCodeIntel, SublimeLinter, Tag

ST2 is the best investment I have made in software apart from open source.



Thanks for the tip on linking the config folder to Dropbox. That's super effective!




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