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**facelessuser** · May 4, 2021, 3:59pm

Hop over to the Discord server: Sublime Text Discord Server. And then go to announcements. This is assuming you have a valid license. If not, add purchase a valid license to the steps .

**facelessuser** · May 4, 2021, 3:58pm

@OdatNurd beat me by a minute it seems.

**OdatNurd** · May 4, 2021, 3:59pm

I’m a Ninja like that!

**OdinTech3** · May 19, 2021, 1:49pm

Hey @wbond,

This is absolutely amazing!! I have been super looking forward to using the latest and greatest to of my fav editor sublime text. Lol First paycheck I got I used it to buy sublime text.

What is the story behind the python version bundled with sublime? I know currently you guys bundled python 3.8 but in sublime text 4 has there been improvements to make it easier for you guys to update that bundle as new python versions come along.

For example python 3.10 has a lot of interesting features most especially the more friendlier exception messages and would probably improve the plugin development experience.

There is also the asyncio features of python from 3.6 and up, would sublime text 4 support that in the bundle it ships out?

Thanks again for all the work.

**bschaaf** · May 19, 2021, 2:01pm

For now 3.8 is the latest version we plan to ship, as 3.9 drops certain operating system versions. asyncio works, but the plugin system does not currently make use of it.

**OdinTech3** · May 19, 2021, 3:07pm

So @bschaaf it should be easier now to update the version of python bundled in sublime text 4 moving forward?

**bschaaf** · May 19, 2021, 3:14pm

Easier for us, yes. Though it’s unclear when or of we’ll add a newer version any time soon.

**deathaxe** · May 19, 2021, 7:07pm

There are thousands of packages out in the wild using python3.3 Only 0.000001% of them have been prepared to use python 3.8 so far as no one seems interested in. So getting rid of py33 in a reasonable time seems illusionary. Python 3.8 is a huge step forward and up to this point more than enough needed to create good packages. I guess it will take another 10 years for python to evolve ot a point new features make sense for developing plugins. Most of the new stuff is just some syntactical sugar. Not to forget each python version seems to become more and more bloated with libraries noone needs.

**rpcm** · May 20, 2021, 4:12pm

Who’s stoked?

**Cats** · May 20, 2021, 9:41pm

It’s coming today or tomorrow

**srbs** · May 21, 2021, 5:49am

For those who haven’t seen it, it has been release:

**DigitalSparky** · May 21, 2021, 5:23pm

Congratulations to the Sublime team on the release of ST4!

I’ve been using the beta for a bit now, and it’s been a great experience.
I’ve already purchased my license upgrade!

Thanks for making such an awesome and powerful piece of software, along with Sublime Merge (which I bought a little while ago)…

Quick question though, while I won’t run into this for 3 years, is there a way to sync my Text and Merge licenses so I can just renew them both at the same time? (is this cheaper as a bundle? it looked a bit cheaper when I saw the option on the upgrade page).

Matt

**thecrumb** · May 21, 2021, 6:30pm

"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!

**OdatNurd** · May 21, 2021, 9:41pm

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.

**samscoop** · May 23, 2021, 4:22am

Just started using ST4, any way to show the ‘Menu’ bar at the top at all times instead of condensing into an icon?

**UltraInstinct05** · May 23, 2021, 4:45am

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.

**samscoop** · May 23, 2021, 11:29am

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?

**UltraInstinct05** · May 23, 2021, 11:41am

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.

**ngalan** · May 23, 2021, 7:12pm

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.

**OdatNurd** · May 23, 2021, 7:20pm

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,

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