The sublime-project
is a file that contains all settings for a specific project. The file as to be loaded each time you relaunch Sublime Text.
To avoid that, we are going to launch Sublime Text from terminal with a parameter that is this sublime-project
file name.
Sublime Text bring a CLI tool subl
, but we can't used the CLI tool as it is. To use it, we need to do a symbolic link.
Assuming you've placed Sublime Text in the applications folder
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/sublime
The
ln
is a command utility to create link to an existing file. The option-s
is used to create a symbolic link. It's an alias.
The/bin
folder is a directory in Unix systems that contains the executable programs.
We name our link sublime
to be more explicit.
Now we can run Sublime Text just by typing sublime
in our terminal.
Definition /bin
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Tutorial by Olivier Lacan
Now we need to tell to Sublime Text to use the current sublime-project
file when we hit sublime
in terminal. For this we will add a parameter that will be the name of our sublime-project
file.
Go to your project folder
cd /path/to/your/project
Then create a .bashrc
file
touch .bashrc
Open the freshly created file and copy paste this code
# [...]
function project_aware_subl {
project_file=$(ls *.sublime-project 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
sublime ${*:-${project_file:-.}}
}
alias sublime="project_aware_subl"
# [...]
Now, from the terminal, at the root of your project, we can hit sublime your_project.sublime-project
and Sublime Text will launch with the project-sublime
file loaded.
Pretty cool, isn't it? 😎