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buymeasoda / soda-theme

soda-theme

Dark and light custom UI themes for Sublime Text

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Dark and light custom UI themes for Sublime Text

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There's some themes for ST2 that make it much more palatable on OSX, if you're concerned about aesthetics. My favorite is Soda: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

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Observed mentions: 2011-07-29 15:32:32 UTC to 2014-10-19 04:11:54 UTC.

02462011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Soda Theme Dark and light custom UI themes for Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3. Project site: https://buymeasoda.github.io/soda-theme/ Design Installation Soda theme is designed to work with the latest development builds of Sublime Text, including Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3. Using Sublime Package Control If you are using Will Bond's excellent Sublime Package Control, you can easily install Soda Theme via the Package Control: Install Package menu item. The Soda Theme package is listed as Theme - Soda in the packages list. Using Git Alternatively, if you are a git user, you can install the theme and keep up to date by cloning the repo directly into your Packages directory in the Sublime Text application settings area. You can locate your Sublime Text Packages directory by using the menu item Preferences -> Browse Packages.... While inside the Packages directory, clone the theme repository using the command below: git clone https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/ "Theme - Soda" Download Manually Download the files using the GitHub .zip download option Unzip the files and rename the folder to Theme - Soda Find your Packages directory using the menu item Preferences -> Browse Packages... Copy the folder into your Sublime Text Packages directory Activating the theme To configure Sublime Text to use the theme, follow the instructions below for your specific version. Sublime Text 2 Open your User Settings Preferences file Sublime Text 2 -> Preferences -> Settings - User Add (or update) your theme entry to be "theme": "Soda Light.sublime-theme" or "theme": "Soda Dark.sublime-theme" Example Sublime Text 2 User Settings { "theme": "Soda Light.sublime-theme" } Sublime Text 3 Open your User Settings Preferences file Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Settings - User Add (or update) your theme entry to be "theme": "Soda Light 3.sublime-theme" or "theme": "Soda Dark 3.sublime-theme" Example Sublime Text 3 User Settings { "theme": "Soda Light 3.sublime-theme" } Additional Features Alternate Tab Styles Soda Theme ships with two alternate UI tab styles. By default, a square tab style is used. If you'd prefer to use the original curved tab style, add the following custom setting to your Settings - User file: "soda_classic_tabs": true Sidebar Folder Icons Soda Theme has folder icons by default with Sublime Text 3. If you'd like to use folder icons in the Sublime Text 2 sidebar instead of the regular arrows, add the following custom setting to your Settings - User file: "soda_folder_icons": true Retina Resolution UI Soda Theme has been designed to take advantage of retina resolution (high-dpi) displays. Both Soda Light and Soda Dark support retina displays. Theme Customisation Sublime Text provides an elegant way to tweak existing themes without having to duplicate or maintain a separate copy of the original theme. If there are aspects of Soda Theme that you would like to adjust, take a look at the theme customisation wiki page. Bonus Options Syntax Highlighting Colour Schemes The Soda Light screenshot uses a modified version of Espresso Tutti Colori and the Soda Dark screenshot uses a modified version of Monokai. If you'd like to use the syntax highlighting schemes shown in the screenshots: Download colour-schemes.zip Unzip and place the extracted tmtheme files in the Sublime Text Packages/User folder Enable the colour scheme via Preferences -> Color Scheme -> User Code Font The code font shown in the screenshot is Menlo. Development Please note, Sublime Text dev builds move quickly and changes can occur with the theme API between releases, so there may be occasions where the theme doesn't quite work with a brand new dev release. While developing the theme, I have documented some theme challenges and ideas encountered along the way. License Soda Theme is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. You are free to share and remix the theme, however please abide by the license terms when doing so. The following details apply to the Creative Commons license "author specified" components: Attribution example: Based on Soda Theme by Ian Hill (http://buymeasoda.com/) Naming guidelines: If you create and distribute a derivative theme, please give your theme a unique and original name that does not directly include "Soda Theme" (or a close variant) in the main project title, repo name or Package Control name.
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If you use a dark color scheme, you should install a theme that has a similarly dark background for the sidebar. The "Soda Dark" theme goes well with the default color scheme. (The ui theme is separate from the syntax highlighting color scheme, you don't have to use the text colors seen on the github examples) https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/ In terms of plugins, apart from the ones mentioned here, Quick File Creator is indispensable: https://github.com/noklesta/SublimeQuickFileCreator Not a plugin, but if you haven't realised it yet, know that the multiple cursors each come with their own separate clipboard. Learning how to combine this with the move and select by word and the parenthesis-movement commands is what will make the vim users eventually respect you. Oh and you can hack your language syntax definition files to make m
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SublimeText2 continues to impress me, and the more I use it, the more I discover to love about it. As to the "not Mac-like enough" complaint, you can install the Soda theme (https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/) to make it more so, and it's configurable out the wazoo, so if there's something you don't like, you can probably fix it (and someone probably already has with a plugin). Just the existence of the package manager makes Sublime a better experience than most other text editors, because it's insanely easy to add additional functionality as desired.
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