A keyboard driven file navigation/opening plugin for Sublime Text 2
Sublime Files works entirely through the command palette. By running the Sublime Files Navigator, you can "cd" around directories similar to how you would on a command line in order to open up files. New files will open up in new tabs.
Because Sublime Files actually navigates the file system by changing directories, the navigator remembers and starts from last visited directory on subsequent uses. To open the navigator, you can either just invoke the command palette command or use the keybinding ctrl+super+n
Built with Mac OS X, but all the calls have been designed to be platform agnostic and thus should work regardless of system. However, this is untested on Windows.
Installation
Sublime Files can be installed through Sublime Package Control.
Usage
Sublime files an be activated with the command palette command: "Sublime Files: Open Navigator", or with the key command ctrl+super+n (or ctrl+alt+n for windows). The first option will always show the current directory. Selecting another directory will navigate to that directory and selecting a file will open that file.
There are a few notable options:
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Selecting "Directory actions" will pop up a small list of actions that can be applied onto the current directory. Mainly, a user can create new files, add the directory to the current project, and open a terminal at the directory.
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Selecting "~/" navigates to the home directory.
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Selecting "../" navigates to the parent directory.
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Selecting "To current View" navigates to the directory of the current file being edited.
Ignore file types
SublimeFiles by default will ignore *.pyc files and *.class files. You can modify the list of ignored files by changing the ignore_list in SublimeFiles.sublime-settings.
Open Terminal
For OS X/Linux systems, Sublime Files can open up a terminal at the current directory navigated to. In order for this feature to work properly, you will have to modify the term_command field in the SublimeFiles.sublime-settings text file located in the SublimeFiles plugin directory. As a default, it is set to open up Terminal.app for OS X systems.
For example, Gnome Terminal and iTerm2 users respectively will want to change term_command in SublimeFiles.sublime-settings to:
- "term_command": "gnome-terminal --working-directory="
- "term_command" : "open -a iTerm\ 2 "
Sublime Text 3
Sublime Text 3 is not officially supported by Sublime Files at the moment. However, there is an experimental branch "py3" that has a python3 version of Sublime Files that should work with Sublime Text 3.