A better text editor Sublime Text 2

A better text editor Sublime Text 2

During my jQuery studies I came across an interesting text editor called Sublime Text 2. As the author of the jQuery book highly recommended it, I took a closer look.

It is available for download here:
http://www.sublimetext.com/2

It seems quite nice as it is out of the box, but a few plugins really cached my attention:

Package Control
Install instructions here: https://sublime.wbond.net/installation#st2
After install and a restart, you can install plugins by pressing ctrl + shift + p, then typing install and pressing enter. dont forget to restart before using the new plugin, though Im not sure its neccessary.

SublimeLinter
This plugin helps finding errors in your code. If you are using ubuntu and want to validate php and javascript, you need to install these packages in the terminal too:

sudo apt-get install php5-cli nodejs nodejs-legacy

After a restart, press ctrl + shift + p, and type lint. Among other choices you will find the show error list option.

Bracket Highlighter
This is exactly what it sounds like...

SideBarEnhancements
As the name suggests, this enchances the sidebar with some folder functionality...

Sublime CodeIntel
Auto code-completion and other extras.

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A File Type Editor for Ubuntu assoGiate

A File Type Editor for Ubuntu assoGiate

assoGiate is actually a file type editor for the Gnome desktop but since the Ubuntu Unity desktop still uses a lot of Gnome technologies (especially Nautilus as the file management utility), we can use it under Ubuntu for editing/adding new file types with ease nonetheless.

Anyhow, every time you install a new application (say in Gnome desktop) and if that newly installed utility comes with a file types of its own which is not presented in the OS, then it manually registers those file types thus these applications are rarely needed for the newbies But...

... assoGiate is intended for the system administrators who want to manually change the configuration of the file types in Gnome/Ubuntu (or in any GNU/Linux distribution that uses Gnome), but of course dudes (ladies included :D) like you and me also can use it to play around the system settings (yikes!) a little bit as well.

Main features...

*. Search for the default file-types.

*. Edit the already consisting ones.

*. Add a New file type with Categories, related types, file names (also known as "extensions"), XML elements and other advanced options such as changing priority values, etc are also included.

*. Switch between User and System database (system database is only "shown" if you run it with administrative privileges).

*. Remove existing types (only available in the administrative mode).

*. Import/export the database... are the main features to mention.

You can install assoGiate in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command.

sudo apt-get install assogiate

Thats it, be safe ;-).

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