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titoBouzout
SideBarEnhancements
Python2011–2024
titoBouzout / SideBarEnhancements

SideBarEnhancements

Side Bar Tools and Enhancements for Sublime Text. Files and folders.

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What it is

Side Bar Tools and Enhancements for Sublime Text. Files and folders.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Sublime Text has been my standby for years, nearly a decade actually, I have paid a couple of times. It's a fantastic piece of software for the price. 6 months ago I opened…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-11-02 18:59:22 UTC to 2024-08-15 15:49:59 UTC.

0123452011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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titusjohnson·Aug 15, 2024Recommendation phrase
Sublime Text has been my standby for years, nearly a decade actually, I have paid a couple of times. It's a fantastic piece of software for the price. 6 months ago I opened Sublime, let it update, updated packages, and nearly all the context menu options that the SideBarEnhancements added were just gone. I tracked it down to a commit labeled simply "simplify package" [1]. At the time there wasn't a discussion happening regarding how to restore the lost menu items. Just a useless commit nuking things I relied on every day. I suddenly felt very.... violated? Distrustful? I know that titoBouzout owes me nothing, SideBarEnhancements is free after all, but I was reminded of the constant issues NPM has with maintaining a chain of trust. This is my core toolset, how I make my living, and I have no tolerance for things just vanishing without a re
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ason. So I've switched to Zed. Overall it's nice. It's as responsive as Sublime was, the "feel" is there. It has decent-enough key mapping and an out-of-the-box Sublime mode, so I haven't spent too much time figuring out how to incant my favorite shortcuts. It has a much, much better Terminal, and the Copilot integration is very nice. I've had no complaints. I still have Sublime installed, but I stripped out most of the plugins and use it as a vanilla text editor. I continue to use Sublime Merge on a daily basis (literally just for point & click commit building). I guess my moral is, extendable ecosystems are amazing, but just because you paid for the core software does not mean free add-ons will be, or remain, as high quality as the core software, or even continue to exist. 1 - https://github.com/titoBouzout/SideBarEnhancements/commit/d6...
In Sublime Text 4 Build 4180
fooey·Aug 1, 2017
If an addon maintainer was successfully bribed to add something like this to their addon, that maintainer should probably be banned from the ecosystem along with everything Kite touches. Kite is the primary corrupting force here, but the people who keep taking money to screw over their userbase need to be punished as well. Sublime, Atom, and VSCode all need to step up right now and make it clear that this kind of behavior is 100% unacceptable Edit: Allowing this addon straight back into the Sublime ecosystem reflects extremely poorly on them as well. https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen...
In Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements
sillysaurus3·Aug 1, 2017
This seems incredibly overblown. According to the diff, all they were collecting is time spent editing certain file extensions, along with a list of installed packages: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen... They're trying to figure out what languages people are actually editing on a day-to-day basis, and people here are calling for them to leave the company? Like, really? People have been whipped up into a frenzy for data that a webapp wouldn't blink twice at collecting. But when it's installed locally it's somehow different than if we load a webapp in a browser? I agree with you in principle, but it seems like people here didn't actually look at what was being collected. They just saw "data collection" and went absolutely nuts. Yeah, collecting installed package names isn't really great, but it's pretty harmless
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, right? It's a stupid decision, but people seem to be looking for reasons to get upset. They're not collecting filenames, and they take the sha1 hash of whatever could be personally identifiable. Why is any of this bad, or a violation of trust? They even say right in the readme that they're doing it and how to opt out: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen... If they made it opt-in, no one would opt-in. I understand it's a slippery slope, but is this reaction appropriate?
In Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements
sillysaurus3·Aug 1, 2017
What precisely is Kite collecting in this case? Ideally backed by a link to a github repo proving that they're collecting whatever people are saying they're collecting. I've been reading for about 10 minutes and can't find any references. The closest I found was https://twitter.com/gerardroche/status/891802572373319680 which links to https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/blob/master/ext/tel... but that doesn't actually say what they're collecting. That class seems to be collecting time spent, identified by the variable `name`. But it's not immediately obvious what `name` is being set to. If it's set to a full file system path, then I agree it's a breach of trust. But if it's something generic like 'options screen' then clearly they're just trying to improve their product. People here seem to be losing their minds over this, so I'm tryi
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ng to figure out whether it's justified or if it's another game of telephone. EDIT: Found the code: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen... Am I misreading this, or is everyone losing their minds over collecting how much time was spent editing certain file extensions? The only thing that seems to be remotely dubious is "activeNonBundledPackageNames", and that doesn't seem sensitive.
In Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements
mikeburrelljr·Nov 4, 2012
DetectSyntax - DetectSyntax is a plugin for Sublime Text 2 that allows you to detect the syntax of files that might not otherwise be detected properly. https://github.com/phillipkoebbe/DetectSyntax jQuery - This is a Sublime Text bundle to help with jQuery functions. https://github.com/SublimeText/jQuery Prefixr - Runs CSS through Prefixr.com API http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/prefixr SideBarEnhancements - Enhancements to Sublime Text sidebar. Files and folders. https://github.com/titoBouzout/SideBarEnhancements SublimeLinter - Inline lint highlighting for the Sublime Text 2 editor https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter Xdebug - Xdebug Interface for Sublime Text 2 https://github.com/Kindari/SublimeXdebug
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