In TextMate, I could press CTRL-OPTION-SHIFT-<some letter>
and a popup would appear showing the languages starting with that letter. So if I pressed CTRL-OPTION-SHIFT-J
, javascript, java, and json would be choices, and I could press 1
to get javascript, etc. This made it so, even if the file was a .md
markdown file, I could quickly switch to javascript
to get some syntax highlighting as I wrote some sample code.
In Sublime Text 2 I can do vertical block selection, but I can't do it the way vim does, and this feature has been requested before:
http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/61014-vintage-mode-requests/
In vim you can do CTRL-V
then navigate up/down to select a block, then insert some text, for example: