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Commercial cross-platform GUI text editor

Sublime Text (Wikipedia) is a graphical, cross-platform editor for text and source code, available for Ubuntu and other operating systems. It is proprietary commercial software, with an evaluation version available.

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How do I make Sublime Text 3 the default text editor

I'd like to replace gedit, and use Sublime Text 3 as my default text editor for all text files on my Ubuntu system. Can you let me know how do I go about making this change?
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Sublime Text not showing in Nautilus "open with" menu

I am running Ubuntu 15.10. My /usr/share/applications/sublime_text.desktop contains the following: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Sublime Text GenericName=Text Editor Comment=Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and…
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How to update Sublime Text-3 in Ubuntu 16.04?

I installed Sublime Text-3,build- 3114 using the .deb package from the official site. I used Sublime Text-3 earlier in Windows. In Windows, I was able to update within Sublime Text-3 only, but in Ubuntu, there is no such functionality. I have…
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Sublime Text 3 - show whitespace charcters

I'm trying to edit the Sublime Text 3 user preferences (Preferences > Settings) to get it to show all formatting characters (including whitespace). I believe the line "draw_white_space": "selection" has to be changed to "draw_white_space":…
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Lauching Sublime Text From Command Line

After following this tutorial, I cannot launch Sublime Text from command line. How can I fix this?
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Setting default application to open files through FileZilla?

I have installed Sublime Text 2. I have set all the default files to open with this. However, when I open a file from my server using FileZilla (by right-clicking and file and then click "View/Edit") it still opens up in Gedit. Can I change this?
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How to escape spaces in .desktop files Exec line

I want to make a .desktop file like described here. [Desktop Entry] Name=Sublime Text 2 GenericName=Sublime Text 2 Comment=Edit text files Exec=/home/user/opt/sublime/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text %U However, running that from Nautilus's context menu…
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How do I make Sublime Text 2/3 not open previous tabs when I launch it?

Everytime i open Sublime , these tabs automatically opens. How do i fix this. I am unable to find any setting for this.
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Launch Sublime Text 2 from terminal

I am new to Ubuntu and is trying to configure my environment so i can launch Sublime Text 2 directly from the terminal. I followed the solution on this post but no luck so far. These are steps I did (steps from this post): -> cd -> mkdir bin ->…
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Custom compose key sequences without xim (e.g. in Sublime Text 2)

I have quite a few custom compose key sequences. I know I can get them working with an ~/.XCompose and switching the input method to xim. However, Sublime Text 2 doesn't accept any compose key sequences when I'm using xim. It does accept them…
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Where is Sublime Text 2 installed

I was trying to make Sublime Text 2 start from the Terminal. I found a great resource but I cannot find where it is installed. I used the WebUpd8 PPA, anyone know where the PPA installs sublime.
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How to remove 'Sublime Text 3' from Ubuntu 14.04; installed with the instructions on http://www.sublimetext.com/3?

There is a question for How to remove Sublime from Ubuntu 12.04. But I'm a bit too scared to run the commands since it only says 'Sublime' and the 12.04 version of Ubuntu is specified. I just installed 'Sublime Text 3' by clicking on the ubuntu 64…
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Where is the path of sublime in Ubuntu 18.04?

I want to set my Sublime Text path in FileZilla. Where and how do I set the path?
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Run Sublime Text 3 and check version

I have installed Sublime Text 3 following the tutorial on unixmen.com. How to run it from terminal and how to check the version (from terminal or however)?
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How can I run Sublime Text from the launcher as root every time?

Is there a way to automatically run as gksudo when I click on the Sublime Text icon?
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