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Tony Brackins
28,766 Pointscreate sublime files from terminal. How did you do it?
On this video, you entered subl gulp.js and it created a file. How can I configure my terminal like that?
Thanks
7 Answers
Tony Brackins
28,766 PointsHere's the answer: follow this and you can make it work: https://gist.github.com/olivierlacan/1195304
Tony Brackins
28,766 PointsHey Guys, this actually didn't work. -bash: subl: command not found
I'm using OSX Yosemite
Tony Brackins
28,766 PointsHey Guys, this actually didn't work. -bash: subl: command not found
I'm using OSX Yosemite
Tom Sager
18,987 PointsThe command " subl gulp.js" opens sublime and creates an empty editor buffer. The file is not actually created until that buffer is saved. That is why there was an error at the 3:57 mark - the file did not exist until he saved it.
Putting the file name in the command line is a little bit of a shortcut to "New File" followed by "Save As." The shortcut lets you simply do a "Save" instead.
Tony Brackins
28,766 PointsHey Tom Sager , right. That's what I was thinking it was doing, but do you know how to create that shortcut?
Tom Sager
18,987 PointsWhat happens when you type "subl gulp.js"?
Katherine Wakefield
Courses Plus Student 4,154 PointsYou can also create an alias. Sorry for my ignorance with any more detail for default mac. I went to code school and we installed Oh My Zsh. In the terminal I type: 'nano .zshrc'
Then I created my alias: alias st2="open -a 'Sublime Text 2'" alias st3="open -a 'Sublime Text'"
Which means when ever I am in a project folder I can choose whether I was ST2 or ST3. Why do I use both? Well I don't - I have weened myself off of 2. This was my process.
Tom Sager
18,987 PointsThere is no alias or shortcut required. If you type "subl gulp.js", the 'gulp.js' is passed as a command line argument to sublime, which creates a buffer with that name.
This should work right 'out of the box' - unless the subl command has been aliased to something else, or installed differently, or ...
It works on my Ubuntu system running under VirtualBox. I don't what system Tony is running.
Tony Brackins
28,766 PointsHey Guys, I didn't actually try it! I will give it a go thx!