I’ve come into an issue where let’s say I have three folders named “css” in various places on my machine. I added all of these folders to a particular Sublime project… and now I have three folders in my “FOLDERS” list named “css” and there is no way to differentiate between them other than just knowing the order I added them.
Is there a best practice for managing this (such as being able to give folders an alias within the project) without renaming the actual folder?
This used to be possible in ST1, but not anymore. Maybe you can request this feature to be reinstanted via UserEcho.
Looks like there is already a request for this feature (added 4 months ago). Hopefully it will gain some traction though it didn’t have many votes.
I stumbled on this old, old thread, having the same issue. What became of this? Is there currently a way to alias / annotate folders within a project?
It’s possible to assign a label to a “top-level” folder you’ve added to a project in the project file, using the “name” key. That will show up in the sidebar, etc.
{
"folders":
[
{
"name": "Local Work",
"path": "."
},
{
"name": "Staging Environment",
"path": "X:\\foo\\bar\\MyProject"
},
]
}
I’m not aware of a way to alias or label a sub-folder in the tree, but if you’re OK with adding additional Folders entries for the items you want to alias or annotate, there’s an option.
The Folder Aliaser adds a handy sidebar context menu item to rename the folders.