Sublime Text 3 most powerful shortcuts

If you are just starting with Sublime or are a long-time user, you can still benefit hugely from getting to know the shortcuts. For me Photoshop is a software I cannot use without a keyboard, and Sublime being a text editor can be deceivingly simple. The interface is extremely clean but it has incredibly powerful hidden functionalities and they are available through shortcuts.

To go through an interactive course and upgrade your Sublime skills download the Sublimetutor. It is:

An interactive in-editor keyboard shortcuts tutorial for Sublime Text 3

Install

Open Sublime, press CTRL + CMD + P, type “Install Package”, and then choose “Sublime Tutor”.

More details here.

Favourite shortcuts

After doing the tutorial, these are my favourite shortcuts that I will be implementing in my workflow:

Editing

Go to anything – open files in your project

Cmd + P
Cmd + G (go to line)

Go to/switch project

Cmd + Ctrl + P

User settings

Cmd + ,

Duplicate a line

Cmd + Shift + D

Comment / uncomment code

Cmd + /

Delete words

Delete the word backward – Option + Delete
Delete the word forward – fn + Option + Delete

Soft Undo / Redo

Soft undo – Cmd + U
Soft redo – Cmd + Shift + U

Move a line up/down

Move the line up – Ctrl + Cmd + up
Move the line down – Ctrl + Cmd + down

Selection

Multiple cursors

Cmd key with left mouse button

Select word with multiple occurrences – this must be my most favourite one!

Cmd + D (keep pressing it for multiple words)
Cmd + K and then Cmd + D (to skip a word)

Selecting a line

Cmd + L
I often use Cmd + Shift + Left/Right Arrow as well for this.

Selecting content between the brackets

Ctrl + Shift + M

Expand selection to scope

Cmd + Shift + Space

Other

Goto matching bracket

Ctrl + M

Jump back in history

Ctrl + –

Jump forward in history

Ctrl + Shift + –

Code folding

Fold one level – Cmd + Option + [
Unfold code one level – Cmd + Option + ]

Find / Replace

Find

Double-click a word to select it and it will be highlighted everywhere in the document
Find next – Cmd + G
Find previous – Cmd + Shift + G
Find all – Alt + Return (when find panel is open)
Cmd + E (use selection for finding)
Quick find – Cmd + Option + G (with selected word)
Quick find all occurrences – Cmd + Ctrl + G
Search within all projects/folders – Cmd + Shift + F

Replace