Sublime Text is a full text editor which is especially attractive to programmers. Among the long list of possibilities that we find, we have the possibility of selecting different sections of a text that can then be processed simultaneously, syntax highlighting with support for more than forty languages and the macro capacity.
After the release of Sublime Text 3.1 and Sublime Merge (a Git client) in 2018, a new release of Sublime Text 3.2 has just been announced. This new version of editor 3.2, is largely based on work done within the Git client, Sublime Merge.
Also, says the team, that Other improvements were added ranging from improved stability to improved performance.
While in version 3.1 published last year (in May 2018) the main innovations and improvements were mainly focused on the user interface that became very attractive, the text representation that supports ligatures and other features to enrich the user experience. Username.
Well now in this new release of Sublime Text 3.2 this version was designed to allow developers to manage Git configuration files.
Otherwise, the version was adapted to serve as the default editor for Git. The Git client, Sublime Merge is designed for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms and was released in September 2018.
Sublime Merge combines the Sublime Text UI engine with a Git from-scratch implementation.
And as a Git client, it offers a full set of features. Among the most important are the built-in merge tool and advanced search functionality.
The built-in merge tool allows you to resolve all branch merge conflicts directly in Sublime Merge, instead of opening its editor.
Main features of Sublime Text 3.2
Sublime Text 3.2 pulls many resources from the Git client, Sublime Merge. For this purpose, it also includes a Git integration.
This Sublime Text 3.2 Git integration includes components like sidebar, status bar, difference markers, etc.
Files and folders in the sidebar will now display credentials indicating the status of Git. Skipped files and folders have less visual accent and the current Git branch and number of changes are displayed in the status bar.
New features in this new version also include editor control, UI theme design, syntax highlighting, color schemes, text rendering and other API integrations and various other features to discover by checking out the announcement made by the Sublime Text team.
La Improving the user interface involves improving the format. sublime-theme, especially with the addition of variable support and the JSON format.
The rendering of the theme is now compatible with the penultimate version of Unicode, that is, Unicode 11.
We also saw the correction of some cases of glyph incorrect positioning on Windows and Mac.
On Linux, color glyphs now display correctly and there have been some fixes to some fonts on Windows.
On the question of the integration of new APIs, we can observe the addition of the methods view.set_reference_document() y view.reset_reference_document() and several other additions the team cites in the Sublime Text 3.2 release note.
These various methods mentioned above allow you to control the generation of differences.
There are many other features, additions, and improvements in Sublime Text 3.2 that you can see in its release note. In the following link.
How to install Sublime Text 3.2 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
Although this editor is available to download for free and has an unlimited “trial” period, you will need to purchase a license if you plan to use it full time.
If you are one of those who just wants to know the application and see the potential it has for you
First we will have to open a terminal (Ctrl + T) and execute the following:
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
Now as a next step add the stable Sublime Text repository to your software sources:
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt / stable /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
Once they've added the repo, they can go ahead and run an update and install the app:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install sublime-text