ST3 support?

[cviebrock]

Any chance of making your plug-in compatible with ST3?

[MattDMo]

It's completely compatible with ST3, I don't know why it's marked ST2-only. You'll have to manually clone the repo into your Packages directory, but other than that it works fine out of the box.

[cviebrock]

I think you need to follow the instructions here: https://sublime.wbond.net/docs/developers

and change the lines https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/blob/master/repository/d.json#L138-L147 to read:

{
    "name": "Default File Type",
    "details": "https://github.com/spadgos/sublime-DefaultFileType",
    "releases": [
        {
            "sublime_text": "*",
            "details": "https://github.com/spadgos/sublime-DefaultFileType/tree/master"
        }
    ]
},

That should make it show up in Package Control as working with ST2 and ST3.

[cviebrock]

I've done this for you: https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/pull/2421

[FichteFoll]

Merged.

[CNG]

Not being a Sublime Text or OSX pro yet, I was unsure exactly what was meant by "Sublime base directory". I guessed this was /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3, but the structure seems to be different than it was in ST2. I don't have language folders under the Packages folder, nor do I seem to have a file called "Java.tmLanguage" like the example anywhere on my system.''

Do the docs need to be updated for ST3 or am I missing something? Thanks!

[FichteFoll]

ST3 stores the standard packages in the application folder (where it is installed). See http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/packages.html

[CNG]

Thank you @FichteFoll, that's very helpful!

[kaimantsch]

For ST 3 I can't seem to find the default language definitions there (/Applications/Sublime Text 3.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages) or in the (/Users/kai/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages)

Are they compressed in the Markdown.sublime-package file? Would I need to extract this, leave extracted, and point at it? Or am I missing something here?

Thanks, Kai

[FichteFoll]

Yes, packages are stored in zip archives which have the .sublime-package extension. See also the docs page I linekd above. You can get https://github.com/skuroda/PackageResourceViewer which eases the work with zipped packages.

[CNG]

Hi @kaimantsch, do you mean you looked in /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages and saw only a Markdown.sublime-package file? You said Sublime Text 3.app but I'm not sure if that was a typo. Mine doesn't have the "3" in the .app filename but does have the "3" in the data directory, ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/.

Anyway, my /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages contains 48 .sublime-package files corresponding to the various languages.

That said, I'm actually not sure if I have the DefaultFileType plugin working. My default_file_type.sublime-settings file is currently empty, but I seem to have the "open new file as current filetype" behavior working anyway. I guess I forgot where I left off and now am not sure if it was always like that.

[CNG]

Oh on second reading, you're looking to reference Markdown? For some reason I thought you were saying all you had was a Markdown file.

[kaimantsch]

Yes, I was hoping to have Markdown be the default but I can't find the .tmLanguage file for it anywhere. (I renamed my app in the /Applications dir. No problems there.)

[CNG]

If you were to duplicate the "Markdown.sublime-package" file, rename it "Markdown.zip" and extract it, you should find "Markdown/Markdown.tmLanguage". You don't need to actually extract the ZIP, though, but it's how you can be sure of the file name/path.

So to set Markdown as the default file type, I think you would create ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/default_file_type.sublime-settings:

{
  "default_new_file_syntax" : "Packages/Markdown/Markdown.tmLanguage",
  "use_current_file_syntax" : false
}

Also note from the docs of this plugin:

This only affects files which are created with the Ctrl+N shortcut (Cmd+N on OSX).

Does that help?

[kaimantsch]

I have only been using the cmd-N to open/test the feature.

I tried a number of paths:

Packages/Markdown/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage /Packages/Markdown/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage

I then extracted the MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage from the zip file and just dumped it in the App Packages directory and used the full path:

Error loading syntax file "/Applications/Sublime Text 3.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage

I moved it several more places, including ~/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage

Complaint is the same about not being able to open:

Error loading syntax file "~/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage": Unable to open ~/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage

Other ideas? Is this working for you?

[kaimantsch]

Correction: I somehow forced a reload that suddenly caused it to work. I went back and even tried Packages/Markdown/MultiMarkdown.tmLangugage and suddenly that works too. I forgot the cardinal rule: "have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?" No idea what they worked but seems to be fine now.

Thanks for all the help debugging!

[CNG]

I haven't tried extracting it or moving it anywhere, but just with the default ST3 install and then with DefaultFileType package installed, I get it to work just fine by having this as my default_file_type.sublime-settings file:

{
  "default_new_file_syntax" : "Packages/Markdown/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage",
  "use_current_file_syntax" : false
}

Is the use_current_file_syntax setting working for you when you set it to true?

[CNG]

Hah OK, glad it works. For me, the changes to the settings file seem to take immediately. I can change to another language, save, and then do Cmd+N and it opens a new tab as the new file type immediately.

[kaimantsch]

The crazy thing is that clear that was happening, at least in part. I would hit cmd-n and it would complain that it couldn't open the file named just as I had typed in the lastest change. So clearly it had read the new file name each time and updated. But somehow... something changed? Suddenly all the same combinations I tried before worked. I went back and tried them all. Anyway, clearly a Sublime text issue and not with your plugin. Hopefully all of this working back and forth will be useful to someone! When in doubt... reboot.

[absolutejam]

I've got the exact same issue as kaimantsch except that a reboot didn't fix it, neither did a reinstall of the package.

If I look under View > Syntax it has the correct language/syntax selected (From my default_file_type.sublime-settings) but it isn't loading all of the syntax.

I've tried;

{
  "default_new_file_syntax" : "Packages/Markdown/MultiMarkdown.tmLanguage",
   "use_current_file_syntax" : false
}

and when I create a new document, it has the white background (as per the language settings) and the correct option is selected in View > Syntax > MarkdownEditing > MultiMarkDown but none of the highlighting or auto-completion works.

I've also tried tried HTML and XML to test and I get the same symptoms.

[mliq]

Did you actually extract the .tmlanguage file to Packages/User/ and then reference it there? That worked for me with Markdown Extended.