Hello,
I have ST build 4113 on Mac OS 11.5.2. When I open a new document by clicking on it, or a project with subl ., ST always opens a new blank editor window together with it. How do I fix this so only the relevant project / doc is gets opened?
Thanks.
Is ST already open when you do this? Normally ST will restore previously open windows if you quit the application; see the "hot_exit" setting.
Nope, when the app is already open it will only open the doc thatās clicked or the project thatās opened. When the app isnāt open it will open a blank new window and bring it into foreground / focus (with the above in the background).
Also, it does not restore anything from the previous session.
Sorry Iām not following. Can you specify the exact behaviour youāre seeing and what you expect to happen instead?
When I open a doc D or a project P, ST also opens a blank (empty) new window W ALONGSIDE with D or P. So instead of just having one open window (D or P), I end up with TWO open windows: D or P and W.
What I expect to happen instead: for ST to open D or P without also opening W.
Hope that makes sense.
Is the Sublime Text application running already when this happens? Note that an application may be running even without any windows open.
No, this happens only when the ST application is NOT running. When itās already running only the clicked doc (or a project opened with subl . ) gets opened.
Not sure about that. When I was installing ST on this machine, I used this (am using bash):
echo 'export PATH="/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
(as per these instructions: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/command_line.html#mac)
The current output of echo $PATH is this:
/Users/me/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/binThanx! The output is:
May 15 2020 /usr/local/bin/subl -> /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/sublIāve set "create_window_at_startup": false, and now the subl . command only opens the current project directory. However when I click open a Markdown file on my Desktop it still opens a new window alongside with the file. In both cases, I exit the ST application beforehand.
I have the same issue on Windows 10 and 11. When opening Sublime only everything is fine. If I open a document with sublime it opens additional empty windows in the background (in most cases 2 extra windows).
Update:
No behaviour change with
ācreate_window_at_startupā: false
Iām noticing similar behavior on both WIndows 10/11 and Linux. If I run subl ., I get two windows; however, if I open a single document, then I get only one window.
Adding "create_window_at_startup": false to my settings makes no difference.
I began noticing this behavior after an update within the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I canāt be any more specific than that. Currently, Iām on build 4116 on both Windows & Linux.
Just to make an update, the latest build (4121) partially solves this issue. The extra window doesnāt pop up when a project is opened with subl . ā but DOES pop up when a file is clicked open or opened with CMD+O (on Mac OS).
Iām not sure if this is the bug described here or a new bug:
This is on a MacBook Pro/Intel with Catalina.
Since Build 4121 when I open a file by double-click in Finder, Sublime Text opens a new window/workspace with the file clicked, so far so good.
There is only this window in this workspace, the window with the opened file.
When I click on the red close icon top left, the window/workspace disappears.
But when I close the window with Command-W or click on the āxā on the file tab, then the file closes, but a new āUntitledā file shows, which wasnāt there before.
I have to close this āUntitledā file again to get rid of the window/workspace.
BTW Sublime Text was running before, it is always running on my machine 
Iām unable to reproduce that. Opening a file using cmd+o simply opens the file in the current window, no additional windows are opened. Does it happen in safe mode?
I can confirm the behavior seems to match what @farrol statesānote that it doesnāt seem to create two windows when you open from Finder (Cmd+O or double-click), but it has like a āghost windowā behind the active tab (named untitled) that you end up having to close after you close the document you just opened.
This has been bugging the heck out of me lately, enough to come here and post this animated gif of exactly the issue.
My current preferences file is here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook/blob/master/files/sublime/Preferences.sublime-settings
I have both:
"close_windows_when_empty": true,
"create_window_at_startup": false,
And Iām running build 4121 on macOS 11.6.
Hereās the gif:
In the first example, I double-click to open the file, then click the close icon on the tab. An untitled window is left in place that I also have to close.
In the second example, I double-click to open the file, then press Command-W to close the file. An untitled window is left in place that I also have to close.
