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Cannot find Packages/Default folder on OSX

#1

Hi,

I wanted to open the default, non-user keybindings directly without doing Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Key Bindings.

Anyway—the path that ST3 shows for the non-user keybindings is

~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/Default/Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

…however I am only able to follow this path up to

~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/

…i.e., I don’t see any “Default” folder inside of the “Packages” folder.

Are my eyes/fingers tricking me? Is the “Default” folder really there? Or else where can I find this file? (Toggling “show hidden files” doesn’t help either.)

Thanks!

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#2

The short version of the story is that not all packages are unpacked into the Packages folder; some (most) packages are stored as sublime-package files, which are really just zip files with a different extension. Packages that you (or Package Control) install end up in a folder named Installed Packages that is a sibling of the Packages folder while packages that ship with Sublime (such as Default) are kept safely out of the way.

As such, if you want to access that file from outside of Sublime your best bet is to use the installed command to display the file, and then save as it somewhere else; the contents of the Default package only (potentially) change when Sublime is updated.

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#3

OK. Thank you!

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