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Sublime 3 Dependent on Internet Connection

#1

I have recently purchased a license and installed Sublime 3 after my friend told me about the many plugins that I can use with it. I downloaded around 10 popular plugins and started using the text editor with ease. However, I take my laptop to school with me and I often use airplane mode (no WiFi) in order to save battery most days.

I noticed that whenever I use airplane mode, I’m unable to type in the text editor. None of my keys work and it seems to freeze, although I can open and close projects and switch tabs. Whenever I reconnect to the internet, everything works perfectly fine again.

I believe I have a reproducible issue regarding plugins, internet connectivity, and Sublime 3. I was able to use S3 fine in airplane mode for the first few days before downloading any plugins, using pure vanilla S3. But after having installed plugins, I cannot use S3 while in airplane mode.

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have any idea of what’s going on and how I may fix this?

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#2

Did you try to disable packages one by one to see which one is locking up st?
A list of installed packages may help tracking your issue…

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#3

I learned that my issue was with Emmet and the PyV8 binary updating. If I began typing before my status bar said “PyV8 binary successfully loaded”, Sublime would freeze and I’d have to restart it. After disabling Emmet, I was able to type immediately upon opening Sublime. Also, instead of disabling Emmet, there is a workaround of preventing automatic updates and manually installing the binaries which is what I did and found that this solved my problem. Here are some links for reference.

github.com/sergeche/emmet-sublime/issues/129
github.com/emmetio/pyv8-binaries

Here is also the list of the plugins I’m using in case anyone knows about issues with anyone of these that I may not be aware of.

Bracket Highlighter
Browser Refresh
Emmet
FileDiffs
Git
Package Control
Side Bar
Autoprefixer
PlainTasks
SublimeLinter
ColorPicker

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#5

Sublime Text does not need an internet connection to run, I personally know people who run it on air-gapped computers that have never been on the internet. Plugins on the other hand can do what they want, you’ll want to check which plugin is causing the behaviour you’re seeing.

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