"The side bar, tab bar, Goto Anything, Goto Definition, auto complete and more have all been tweaked to make code navigation easier and more intuitive than ever. "
Can you move the side bar to the right? 
That’s the only improvement I’ve needed since like v2.
That said I’ll be upgrading soon! Congrats on new release!
Jon mentioned in the discord
the 3 years will begin from the purchase date of the bundled license, the system isn’t smart enough to do any sort of pro-rata incorporating remaining time on the upgraded-from license key(edited)
but the bundle price isn’t discounted, and will remain at the current price in the future
when your SM license is >3 years old, you’ll be able to upgrade it, and bundle ST with it at that point if desired
The general idea being that in essence they’re always synced when you bundle because you start a “fresh” 3 year license period when you do it.
Just started using ST4, any way to show the ‘Menu’ bar at the top at all times instead of condensing into an icon?
If you are using the Adaptive theme, set themed_title_bar setting to false to get back the main menu (There is currently an issue where this doesn’t work with light color schemes though https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/4203). Else, Default & Default Dark will have the main menu by default.
How to enable blinking cursor in ST4? And also the bottom bar even though I chose dark mode and monokai is appearing in blue. Any way to use dark mode and monokai for the bottom status bar?
You can set the caret_style to smooth in your preferences.
// Valid values are "smooth", "phase", "blink" and "solid". Previous
// versions of Sublime Text used "smooth" by default.
"caret_style": "solid",
If you are using one of the default themes in ST, then you can just set the variable status_bar_bg to a color of your choice in your user theme to match dark mode. Otherwise, you’ll need to find out the class control of the status bar and change the background color appropriately based on the theme documentation.
CONTEXT-AWARE AUTO COMPLETE
- Uses the entire project as a source, instead of just the current view
is there a way to disable this? Can’t find it in the settings. I have a bunch of folders open in sublime and the auto complete mixes things up when I’m coding. I just want it to use the current view and not the entire project/folders opened.
I would try this:
// Auto complete will used indexed data to provide completions from other
// files when this is enabled
"auto_complete_use_index": true,
Thanks for the ongoing development. I upgraded a few hours ago. I can see some useful features being added. Sublime seems more intelligent now. However, it’s also extremely CPU hungry and slow. So much in fact, that I’d like to downgrade. I’m running OSX 10.13 on a 2012 Mac book. Sublime always was a zappy experience. I just don’t understand why it now has to hog the CPU. Is this a bug?
Almost all syntaxes have been improved. That means that the background indexer will re-index all your projects. Give it some time and the CPU usage will drop to zero after a while.
Thanks for your answer. CPU usage seems to be 0% to be ok when it’s idle, so the background indexer must already have done its job…
But when scrolling it uses up 70-100% CPU. The scrolling frame rate is low, compared to (near) 60 fps in version 3. All actions like search and replace have a noticeable lag…
After updating sublime, all my snippets don’t work. I even tried adding new ones, but they don’t work either. Is that a bug?
I suggest you go to their github repo, search if someone else has the same issue. If no similar issue is found, then post it there.
ST4 has some significant changes to how rendering is done. Can you check whether OpenGL context information is printed in the console one startup?
Sorry if this has already been covered, but if we were running the ‘dev’ build of ST4, does the upgrade convert it to the ‘stable’ channel? Hoping the answer is yes …
dev and stable channel builds don’t update to each other, so if you’re running 4106 you won’t get offered an update to 4107, which is the stable version of build 4106 (that is, it’s identical except that the About dialog says Stable instead of Dev and the number is different.
If you’d like to switch to the stable channel, you need to install a stable build. You should be able to do that directly over top of the existing dev build, unless you’re on Linux and using one of the package repositories, in which case you need to switch which repository you’re using.
OpenGL Context Information:
GL API Version: 4.1 APPLE-16.4.2
GLSL Version: 4.10
Vendor: Apple Inc.
Renderer: Apple Software Renderer
startup time: 0.826329
The “Software Renderer” part scares me… Is there a way to change this?
I found no way to improve the performance regression. Downgraded to ST3, and keeping it that way… Double the CPU at half (or less) the frame rate doesn’t make sense to me. Perhaps it works well on modern hardware or OS, but I don’t care. It’s a text editor, not a video editor.