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Subl opens blank windows on macOS

#1

Sublime: 3.2.2 build 3211
macOS 15.2

Trying to open a Sublime workspace from the command line:

subl -n --project ~/blah.sublime-workspace.

If the workspace is not currently open, then sublime opens the workspace up just fine in a new window and make it active focus. Nice :slight_smile:

However, if the workspace is already open, either in the background or foreground, then the expected behavior of switching focus to the open workspace does not happen. Instead Sublime creates a new blank window and sets the focus to that blank file.

After googling I see this bug has been around for years and quite a few mentions on here and Stackoverflow.

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#2

Came here to post the same issue. Sad that it probably won’t be addressed since it’s been two years without a response…

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#3

Issues or bug reports are better filed at https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues as those are likely to get burried in this forum.

That said, information about ST version might be useful. ST3 won’t receive any of such functional updates now that ST4 is released. Does it still happen with ST4113?

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