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Searching in the Sublime Text help menu

#1

In this article:

How to Add a Shortcut for Any Command in Sublime Text
http://brendankemp.com/essays/how-to-add-a-shortcut-for-any-command-in-sublime-text/

the author mentions opening up the help menu and searching on commands and topics.

I don’t see this search option in Sublime Text 3.

Am I missing something obvious? (No doubt I am.)

Thanks.

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#2

I’ve never seen this “Search” box/functionality either - I guess it is an OS specific thing whereby one can search the menus. Indeed, the help menu in the screenshot seems to show “About Aperture”, so it doesn’t even look ST related…

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#3

That image looks like it’s specific to Mac OS, but I’m not sitting at my Mac right now so I don’t know if that works in Sublime 3 or not.

However, Sublime 3 has it’s own built in version of that particular functionality called the Command Palette, which is bound to the key stroke Ctrl+Shift+P… That will open up a panel that will allow you to search for all known commands, and then you can follow the rest of the article to bind the keys you want.

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#4

Does the command palette turn up all the menu commands? For instance, I just tried searching for “incremental find” with no hits. Same for “replace” – no results.

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#5

A feature like this would be great – actually, absolutely indispensable.

To the best of my knowledge, the command palette doesn’t have access to all the menu commands. Nor does it offer instant links to background information on commands and topics.

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#6

You are correct, it doesn’t show all possible commands from the menu, but that could be just an oversight; commands that show up in that list need to be put in command files, so there’s no reason (that I know of) that they couldn’t show up there.

Incidentally, I checked and ST3 on MacOS does support searching the menu like your link shows; it also shows things like incremental find. That could be because of something under the hood in MacOS that’s pulling the data directly from the menus, though.

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#7

The top items currently on my Sublime Text for Windows wish list:

  1. access to all the menu commands through the command palette and/or help search like that on the Mac

  2. robust macros that record all actions one might take, including find/replace

  3. replacement of JSON for settings and key bindings with a more modern, readable and minimalist markup scheme (possibly YAML)

  4. automatic storing of added words in the spell checker to a standalone plain text and fully editable user dictionary that loads in tandem with the main dictionary

  5. international key bindings out of the box

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