Using Sublime Text on Bash on Windows

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Using Sublime Text on Bash on Windows

1. First make sure to install rsub in Bash (follow the tutorial here) and make sure it is in the $PATH environment variable.

2. Create a symlink to the windows executable of Sublime Text so it is the $PATH (I use the ~/bin/ directory that I created). I did this by adding the following lines to my ~/.bashrc because I have found symlinks to be buggy in the Bash environment. This ensures the symlink is re-created each time Bash starts up. (Note: your installation path to the Sublime Text executable may vary)

   $ ln -sfn "$HOME/bin/wsub" "/mnt/d/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/subl.exe"

3. Create a new file in ~/bin called subl and paste the code from the subl.sh file located below this tutorial.

4. Give the script permissions to run:

   $ sudo chmod u+x ~/bin/subl

5. ?

6. PROFIT

subl.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Open wsub or rsub depending on the file path

lfiles=()
wfiles=()

for file in "$@"; do
    fullPath="$(readlink -f $file)" # Get the full path of each argument
    if [[ $fullPath == /mnt/* ]]; then
        # Keep track of files that Windows has access to
        fullPath="${fullPath#/mnt/}" # Remove the /mnt/ from the path
        fullPath="${fullPath^}" # make the drive letter capital

        # Convert to Windows style path string
        # Thanks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13701218/windows-path-to-posix-path-conversion-in-bash
        fullPath="$(echo "$fullPath" | sed -e 's/^\///' -e 's/\//\\/g' -e 's/^./\0:/')"
        wfiles+=("$fullPath")
    else
        # Keep track of files only Linux can see
        lfiles+=("$file")
    fi
done

if [ ${#wfiles[@]} -eq 0 ] && [ ${#lfiles[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
    # If no files were specified just open up sublime
    wsub 2>/dev/null
    exit $?
fi

if [ ${#wfiles[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
    # If there are any windows files to open

    for file in "${wfiles[@]}"; do
        wsub "$file" 2>/dev/null # Open a Windows file
    done
fi

if [ ${#lfiles[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
    # If there are linux file we need to check if sublime is open for rsub to work
    if [[ "$(tasklist.exe 2>/dev/null | grep sublime_text.exe)" == "" ]]; then
        # Sublime isn't open so open it
        wsub 2>/dev/null &
        sleep 2 # Wait for sublime to open otherwise rsub will not open
    fi

    for file in "${lfiles[@]}"; do
        rsub "$file" # Open a Linux file through rsub
    done

    # Force explorer to focus sublime text
    wsub 2>/dev/null
fi