Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s916/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s320/sublime-text-3.png" title="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Initially, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/sublime-text-3-beta-available-for.html">version 3</a> was only available to registered users (a license costs USD $70) however, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds are now <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta">available to all</a> and like Sublime Text 2, it can be evaluated for an unlimited period of time.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently I've received quite a few requests to create a PPA for Sublime Text 3 because, even though there are deb packages available for download, users must manually install each update. So I've created a PPA you can use to easily install and stay up to date with the latest Sublime Text 3 (currently in beta) builds in Ubuntu and derivates. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The package in the PPA is just an installer and works like our Oracle Java Installer package: it downloads the Sublime Text 3 archive from its website and installs it on the system. The PPA does not host any Sublime Text 3 files.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, if you've already installed Sublime Text, make sure the application is not running</b> or else there might be some visual glitches (that's because the package in our PPA will replace any already existing Sublime Text deb packages). This only occurs when switching from the Sublime Text 3 debs downloaded from its website to the packages in our PPA.<br /><br />Also, using the instructions below, the old Sublime Text 2 package (if you've used our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 PPA</a>) will be replaced with the new Sublime Text 3.</div><br /><b>To add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 3 (beta) PPA and install the application in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and derivatives), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want to use our PPA or don't use Ubuntu, <b>download Sublime Text 3 </b>from <b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">HERE</a></b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tip: </b>to disable new version notifications, add the following to your User Preferences file (<i>Preferences > Settings - User</i>):</div><pre class="source-code"><code>"update_check": false</code></pre><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Easily Discover And Install Plugins In Sublime Text 2 or 3 With Sublime Package Control</a></i>

Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

Sublime Text is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Initially, version 3 was on...

+ Read more »

Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s1600/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="textadept" border="0" height="189" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s320/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" title="textadept" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">TextAdept</a> is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last TextAdept <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/textadept-is-lightweight-cross-platform.html">article</a></b>, the application has improved a lot, getting many new features and other changes, including:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">menu mnemonics for indentation size;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for indicator and hotspot events;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added language-specific context menu support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new dark and light themes and on-the-fly theme switching;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">autocomplete supports multiple selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more! </li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s1600/textadept-ncurses.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="textadept-ncurses" border="0" height="207" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s320/textadept-ncurses.png" title="textadept-ncurses" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">textadept-ncurses</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's also a ncurses version now</b>, so you can run TextAdept in the terminal. The ncurses-based TextAdept is very user-friendly and easy to use - it follows the GNOME HID (Human Interface Design) key-bindings standard for many actions so you can use: Ctrl + s to save the file, Ctrl + o to open a file, Ctrl + q to quit and so on.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s1600/textadept-buffers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s320/textadept-buffers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TextAdept buffers</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept doesn't uses tabs like most text editors and instead it uses the buffer browser - press Ctrl + b to open the buffers (files) switching dialog or use Ctrl + Tab to switch to the next buffer or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to switch to the previous one. Alternatively, you can also bring up the recent files dialog using Ctrl + Alt + o. And there is yet another way to quickly open files: snapopen, which behaves like the buffer browser, but displays a list of files to open which includes files in subdirectories - you can snapopen the current directory files using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o.<br /><br />You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/api/_M.textadept.keys.html#Key.Bindings">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For extra TextAdept language modules, including LaTeX, Python, Markdown, CoffeeScript and so on, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">TextAdept wiki</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download TextAdept</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/download">Download TextAdept</a></b> - there are binaries available for Linux (as tar.gz, so there are no deb or rpm files but you can simply extract the archive and run it), Windows and Mac OS X as well as source files.</div><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/textadept-latest-stable/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install textadept</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept should then show up in the menu / Dash. To use the ncurses-based version, type "textadept-curses" in a terminal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to make textadept-ncurses the default command line editor in Ubuntu, also install the following package:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install textadept-default-cli</code></pre><br />For how to use TextAdept, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">manual</a> and its <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">wiki</a> as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under <i>/opt/textadept/doc</i> for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Bruce Ingalls!</i></div>

Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

TextAdept is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, M...

+ Read more »

Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is probably among the best text/code editors available for Linux, and it's cross-platform so it works on Windows and Mac OS X too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sublime Text 2 stable was released about 7 months ago and since then, its developer has been working on a new version: <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">Sublime Text 3</a>. Even though Sublime Text is not free, up until now, users could evaluate it for an unlimited period of time which basically meant you didn't really had to buy it unless you wanted to support the developer. However, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta can only be used if you've purchased a license (USD $70, pretty expensive I'd say), but the old evaluation model might be used later on.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-DG-r-jX6Y/UQfyPgnbF2I/AAAAAAAANDQ/Zx8sDFIpftA/s1600/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-DG-r-jX6Y/UQfyPgnbF2I/AAAAAAAANDQ/Zx8sDFIpftA/s320/sublime-text-3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Starting with the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds, the application now uses <b>Python 3.3</b> for the plugins and also, it runs them out of process so they can't crash the main Sublime Text process anymore. Also, the new version comes with new features such as Goto Definition and Goto Symbol, speed improvements, improved pane management, symbol indexing and many other changes about which you can read <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this is not all, since Sublime Text 3 is currently in beta, it should improve quite a lot until the final release - if you've used the alpha and beta Sublime Text 2 builds, you're probably aware of how fast new builds are released.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I maintain a Sublime Text 2 PPA but I won't be uploading any Sublime Text 3 builds yet, given that it can't be evaluated for an unlimited period of time (for free) any more. However, the there are now official deb packages available for download so you can easily install the latest Sublime Text 3 beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based Linux distributions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you haven't tried Sublime Text before, I suggest you give version 2 a try, you'll find it <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">HERE</a> (and in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/sublime-text-20-stable-released-ppa.html">our Sublime Text PPA</a>).</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">Download Sublime Text 3 beta</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Sublime Package Control</a> - a tool to easily install plugins; it's like apt, but for Sublime Text.</i></div>

Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

Sublime Text is probably among the best text/code editors available for Linux, and it's cross-platform so it works on Windows and Mac O...

+ Read more »

Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3kKiEwCcBJg/T-n6KMmM6BI/AAAAAAAAJMA/SHsiDZV_IKw/s1600/sublime-text-2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sublime text 2" border="0" height="204" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3kKiEwCcBJg/T-n6KMmM6BI/AAAAAAAAJMA/SHsiDZV_IKw/s320/sublime-text-2.0.png" title="sublime text 2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime Text 2</a> is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more than a year, the first stable version has finally been released today.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This post is a quick update for those using our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 Ubuntu PPA</a>: since there are no more Sublime Text 2 beta builds, I've made some changes to the packages and the stable version package name is "sublime-text", while the development package name is now "sublime-text-dev" (I've renamed them to avoid conflicts), however, those who have installed the beta / dev builds and aren't reading this post will still get updates thanks to a meta package (though it's probably better to simply remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages and install stable or development version using the instructions below).<br /><br /><i>Besides automatic updates, the PPA package comes with a proper desktop file with Unity integration (quicklists and drag'n'drop support), a "subl" command line alias, etc. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 2 PPA (available for Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Optional: remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove sublime-text*</code></pre><br /><b>Then, to install Sublime Text 2 stable, use the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text</code></pre><br /><b>Or, to install the Sublime Text 2 development package, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text-dev</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: you can't install both the development and stable packages in the same time. Installing one of them will remove the other one.</div>

Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

Sublime Text 2 is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more t...

+ Read more »