Sublime Text packages

rcknight 12 years ago |

Does this offer any real benefit over the official list on the sublime package control page?

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community

One suggestion to bring it to at least feature parity: It is useful to display the operating systems that each package supports.

wbond 12 years ago | |

Just a heads up for anyone interested. I've been working on a very significant revamp of the Package Control site that coincides with all of my work on Package Control 2.0. I've been pushing hard the past couple of weeks, with a hopeful launch in the next couple of days.

tlongren 12 years ago | | |

that is so awesome.

hackula1 12 years ago | |

I just do cmd+shft+p > Install Package

That gives you instant search.

stphnclysmth 12 years ago | | |

The benefit of an online listing is easy access to package descriptions and repositories. When there are multiple packages for a given task, I'd like to know which is more heavily updated and supported. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there's a way to open the Github page from that menu.

wbond 12 years ago | | |

Yeah, I've been aware of a lot of these limitations for quite a while. The new Package Control site solves these problems, plus a whole lot more.

I'm very excited about the launch - with any luck I should have something to show off in the next couple of days!

neotek 12 years ago |

When I middle-click on a link, I expect it to open in a new tab. When browsing lists of things I tend to scroll through the list and open a bunch of tabs, then peruse them at my leisure later on, and I can't do that on your site.

teh_klev 12 years ago | |

Middle click to open in a new tab seems ok for me (Chrome 28 Stable on Win7 x64).

brbcoding 12 years ago | | |

Middle click doesn't seem to work on Chrome 28.0.1500.72 on Win8 x64... It does, however, work on 30.0.1582.0 canary.

mercnet 12 years ago | | |

Middle click does not work for Chromium 28.0.1500.71 :(

dreen 12 years ago | | |

Win 7 Chrome 28 works fine

schappim 12 years ago |

Mod, could you please fix the typo in the title from pacakges to packages!

flurdy 12 years ago |

So glad more people than me frequently misspell pacakges...

Jemaclus 12 years ago |

Couple of suggestions:

* Add categories (by language, software integration, accessibility, whatever) * Add links to the package website and/or Github url * Add screenshots for every package, especially themes. Nothing worse than clicking on "Uber Theme VIII" only to see that it says "Here's a new theme called Uber Theme VIII" but I'd have to install it to find out what it looks like. No thanks.

stphnclysmth 12 years ago | |

There's a small link to the repository in the meta line below each project description, next to the last modified date. It's hard to find. I was coming here to suggest that on package detail pages, the package name should link to the project repository, and not recursively to the detail page. That was my instinctual expectation.

0k1n 12 years ago | |

hey, site author here

I'm planning to add these features in the upcoming days/weeks:

- load package infos from other sources than github - st 2/3 version compatibility - supported platform - faceted search

right now the website is as minimal as possible, I wanted to ship something as quickly as possible to have the fastest possible feedback. I wasn't expecting someone to post on HN though — nor my poor ec2 micro instance did ;)

> links to the package website and/or Github url

It's always there :)

> Add screenshots for every package, especially themes

Lots of theme developers already put theme in their README, though I agree some don't and it's painful. I'll see what I can do.

dombili 12 years ago |

A bit off topic, but it's better to ask here than to create another thread.

I'm teaching myself HTML, and CSS and JS (jQuery). Are there any essential Sublime Text packages that I have to install? I searched it on DDG but it wasn't very helpful (most of the articles were outdated).

PS: I only have "Package Control" installed.

raziel2p 12 years ago | |

Have to, absolutely not - but you'll find that Emmet is extremely useful for HTML.

JonnieCache 12 years ago | | |

Some non language specific ones I use constantly: SublimeLinter, Sidebar Enhancements, Git, Quick File Creator, FileDiffs.

shade 12 years ago | | |

Thanks for the tip on Quick File Creator. I'm a pretty heavy Sublime Text user and that just solved a pain point for me.

Another one that's useful for me in web-related work and not specific to any particular language is the Web Encoders plugin: https://github.com/revolunet/sublimetext-web-encoders -- I often use it when I need to test URL encoding/decoding stuff.

thoughtpalette 12 years ago |

Does anyone know what package is being used for the Blue folder icons and search bar icons?

http://sublimepackages.com/#/details/theme-flatland

publicfig 12 years ago | |

I think that's flatland itself.

thoughtpalette 12 years ago | | |

Oh neat. I didn't want to change the text theme since I like monokai.

Thanks for responding!

joshuak 12 years ago |

Am I the only one that is annoyed that the MXML/AS highlighting package is called flex, and there is no flex lexer highlighting package?

znowi 12 years ago |

Error: EMFILE, open '/var/www/stpackages/static/index.html'

Node.js isn't happy :)

heydanreeves 12 years ago |

Is it just painfully slow for me?

taspeotis 12 years ago | |

I got a "502 Bad Gateway | nginx" error, then it loaded (nice use of Bootstrap 3 RC1) and then it was slow.

kilkurdu 12 years ago | |

not just for you..

auxbuss 12 years ago |

Nice works. Thanks. HN is a tough crowd, but means well. Great advice here.

sirwitti 12 years ago |

ReferenceError: angular is not defined

Maybe this still needs some love...

bownanaking 12 years ago |

Why voting on this?