Install Latest Release of Brackets Text Editor – Brackets 1.3 – on Ubuntu

What’s New in Release 1.3

• Code Folding
  • Expand/collapse blocks of code (code folding): Click the indicators next to the line numbers, or use the shortcuts in the View menu.
• Command Line Integration
  • Launch Brackets from command line: On Windows & Mac, you can open files and folders in Brackets by typing brackets myFile.txt or brackets myFolder on the command line. To enable this optional feature:
    • Mac: choose File > Install Command Line Shortcut
    • Windows: when installing, leave Add “brackets” launcher to PATH for command line use selected
  • On Windows, you can also opt to make Brackets accessible from the Explorer context menu for all files and folders – leave Add “Open with Brackets” to Explorer context menus for all files and folders selected when installing
• Brackets Health Report
  • Anonymous data to help improve Brackets: You can preview the data that will be sent, and opt-out if desired.
• Stability
  • Windows: Mouse wheel scrolls at normal speed: Restores scrolling speed to the behavior of Brackets 1.0.
  • Quick Open: many small bug fixes
• Code Editing
  • Highlight ‘text/ng-template’ Angular templates as plain HTML
  • Better auto-unindent when ending a block: Works with multiple cursors, better indentation in JS switch statements, etc.
• Localization
  • Translation updates for: Brazilian, Croatian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean

Install Brackets Text Editor – Brackets 1.3 – on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Brackets 1.3 on Ubuntu SYstems – Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Derivative Systems.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets


To uninstall and remove Brackets Text Editor, run the following command:

sudo apt-get remove brackets