I was going to write a plugin that prompted for an email address, then sent the current file via email. Then I learned that ST3 does not support getting input from a prompt. I’ve read some articles that indicate they are using SublimeREPL as a workaround.
Is it true that you cannot prompt for input in ST3? I just find this difficult to believe that something so important is missing from Sublime.
You definitely can prompt for input, just to happens through the Sublime Text API. You’ll want to use the Window.show_input_panel() function.
What is not possible is to capture input via the stdin file handle of a script or program run through a build system.
You can use the show_input_panel() method from the sublime.Window class to prompt the user for a line of text.
show_input_panel(caption, initial_text, on_done, on_change, on_cancel)
Shows the input panel, to collect a line of input from the user. on_done and on_change, if not None, should both be functions that expect a single string argument. on_cancel should be a function that expects no arguments. The view used for the input widget is returned.