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Sublime Text behaves unexpectedly

#1

Hi,
I am a developer and I am using sublime from couple of years and I have developed security sites like (Biometric Authentication System). But Sublime Text behaves unexpectedly after one of these scenario:

  • Installing new packages
  • Updating existing packages
  • Upgrading to a newer version of Sublime Text
  • Editing settings files

Many features that were working fine up to now have stopped working, etc.
Please guide me as soon as possible.
Thanks

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#2

If you can give specific examples, maybe people in the community can advise.

All of your listed scenarios, by their very nature, may augment, add, and even remove some previously expected behaviors.

Without specific examples, all that can be given is generally advice:

  1. Plugins are meant to add/augment behavior. Sometimes a restart is required after doing either one as a plugin might not have everything loaded proper until after a restart. Check the console for errors, and report error to the plugin authors. Also read the plugin’s documentation to understand how it my augment your environment.

    If you suspect a plugin is changing behavior of your editor in an unexpected way, try disabling the plugin and see if the issue goes away. If it does, you can always report the bug to the plugin’s issue tracker.

  2. Read the changelog for new versions and see if there was a purposeful change you need to be aware of and how that may affect your workflow. Check console for errors. If they seem to be attributed to a plugin see (1), if not, you can create a thread here to get input from the community and/or file a bug report at https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues.

  3. When editing a settings file, check out documentation on what the setting does, if it is unclear, ask in a thread here to get clarification. Check console as sometimes the settings file can accidentally become malformed when editing them and throw errors (though I believe a popup will usually be generated in that case).

As stated, this is just general advice, but please do post specifics, and I’m sure there are many helpful people who can answer your questions.

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#4

Thanks, facelessuser I apriciate your response. but I made a presentation for my programming and editing the resulting tab. One of the things that upset me was that sometimes I had to hit the tab two or three times to trigger the snippet. It was like looking at books in a book that matched my cut and waiting to see if I would choose another book before slowing down.

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