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Sublime 3 Over-writes User-Settings

#1

I like the new arrangement with read-only Default Settings. (The menu item should probably say “read only”, since in Sublime Text 2 there were some settings which only worked in the Default Settings, and so required changing it.)

I copied the Default Settings into the User Settings, but when I installed BracketHighlighter, and some other package before that, it over-wrote the User Settings and removed all the helpful comments.

I did not use the menu to update User Settings. I just installed a package.

Fortunately I still had the User Settings open, so I was able to ctrl-x back to the earlier version.

I would like to be able to install packages without removing all the comments from the user settings.

Isn’t this the symptom of an unwanted side-effect?

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#2

The only way to install a package reliably without overriding the user settings is to shut down Sublime Text, download a zip file of the package you want, rename it to a .sublime-package file and place it in the Installed Packages folder.

Or you could just not put comments in the user settings file that you want to keep and use the default settings as your reference.

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