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Unable to open Command Pallette

#1

Hello,

Issue: CTRL+SHIFT+P is not opening the Command Palette.

Searched the internet to see if I could fix this on my own. Came across:

One user there states to open the console and type in:

sublime.log_commands(True)
sublime.log_input(True)

When I type those into the console I receive the following message from Sublime:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘log_commands’

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘log_input’

A second user suggested to look inside for the key binding in Sublime. When I searched through the key bindings I was unable to find the shortcut key.

This all stems from me trying to install package control and following the instructions there.

https://packagecontrol.io/installation

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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#2

Could you try reverting to a freshly installed state? This is likely caused by your settings or installed plugins.

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#3

I had added that this was fresh install in my original post, but accidently deleted it when I made an edit. Oops. Anyways, I installed Sublime this morning from the following link:

https://www.sublimetext.com/download

You response did help me figure out what was going wrong. Your link told me to navigate to a Sublime Text 3 folder, however I only had a folder named Sublime Text in my Roaming folder. I was also missing the “Data Folder” your link told me I needed to delete. I deleted everything and relaunched sublime, which is when I noticed I was using “Sublime 1.4”, which made me think I may have downloaded a very old version.

Sure enough, when I went back to the Sublime link I just listed and click “Download” I came to the page which allowed me to download Sublime 3.2.2 and I am now able to use the Command Palette.

Thanks for helping me figure out where I went wrong. Why does that old download link exist? lol

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#4

People like to download old versions of things, not much reason to delete it. Not sure how you came across that download link.

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#5

Google’d “download sublime”, first result lol.

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#6

Did this fix your issue?

For reference, this is what the line for the command palette looks like on macOS

{ "keys": ["super+shift+p"], "command": "show_overlay", "args": {"overlay": "command_palette"} },

with “Super” being ⌘ on macOS.

If you do a search for control+shift+p in the defaults for it, you should be able to find it (you may need to escape the pluses if you’re using regex search with control\+shift\+p

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#7

You’re not alone in finding old versions accidentally nor knowing what the Data file is in the freshly installed state. I ran into the later 2 or 3 days ago.

Hopefully you’ve got it all sorted…

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