How to install Sublime Text 3.2 on Ubuntu Linux. Sublime Text 3.2 text editor for Ubuntu includes: first-class Git integration, incremental diffing, new theme functionality and block caret support. Beyond that is a slew of other enhancements, stability improvements and performance gains.
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Git Integration – New Features
- Files and folders in the sidebar will now display badges to indicate Git status
- Ignored files and folders are visually de-emphasized
- The current Git branch and number of modifications is displayed in the status bar
- Commands have been added to open a repository, see file or folder history, or blame a file in Sublime Merge
- Themes may customize the display of sidebar badges and status bar information
- The setting show_git_status allows disabling Git integration
- All file reads are done through a custom, high-performance Git library written for Sublime Merge.
Themes/UI
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Enhanced the .sublime-theme format:
- Added variables support and associated revised JSON format with variables key
- Added extends keyword to have one theme derive from another
- Colors may be specified via CSS syntax
- Improved performance with large numbers of rules in a .sublime-theme
- Linux: Moved to GTK3
- Linux: Various high DPI fixes
- Mac: Added Mojave support
- Mac: Add full support for macOS native tabs
- Mac: Ensure context menus are shown without scrolling
- Mac: Error message dialogs can now be closed with the escape key
- Mac: Improved window placement
- Mac: Improved resize performance
- Windows: Fixed minimized and maximized state not restoring
- Windows: Fixed a bug where auto complete entries would contain an ellipsis when not required
Text Rendering
- Support for Unicode 11.0
- Improved rendering of combining characters
- Fixed a caret positioning bug when non-trivial graphemes are present
- Fixed some cases of incorrect glyph positions on Windows and Mac
- Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
- Windows: Fixed a rendering issue with certain combining characters
- Windows: Fixed some fonts having an incorrect baseline
Download Sublime Text 3.2
Sublime Text 3.2 is available from the Download page.
Install Sublime Text 3.2
Run the following commands in terminal to install Sublime Text 3.2 in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo apt-get update
sudo snap install sublime-text
You can also install Sublime Text 3.2 via PPA:
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sublime-text
Once installed, open Sublime Text 3.2 from Ubuntu Dash.