---
title: My Sublime Text 2 settings
nav: blog
description: <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2" title="Sublime Text 2">Sublime Text 2</a> has been my text editor of choice for the past few months, and I use it at home, in work, and on any virtual machines that I run. So rather than having to manually re-enter my settings each time, I thought that I'd document them here for future reference.
tags:
    - sublime-text
---
[Sublime Text 2](http://www.sublimetext.com/2) has been my text editor of choice for the past few months, and I use it at home, in work, and on any virtual machines that I run. So rather than having to manually re-enter my settings each time, I thought that I'd document them here for future reference. These preferences ensure that the code is compliant with [Drupal coding standards](http://drupal.org/coding-standards "Drupal coding standards on Drupal.org") - using two spaces instead of a tab, no trailing whitespace, blank line at the end of a file etc.

## Preferences

These can be changed by going to Preferences > Settings - User.

~~~
{
    "color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - Aqua/Color Schemes/Tomorrow Night Aqua.tmTheme",
    "default_line_ending": "unix",
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "fallback_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "file_exclude_patterns":
    [
        "*.pyc",
        "*.pyo",
        "*.exe",
        "*.dll",
        "*.obj",
        "*.o",
        "*.a",
        "*.lib",
        "*.so",
        "*.dylib",
        "*.ncb",
        "*.sdf",
        "*.suo",
        "*.pdb",
        "*.idb",
        ".DS_Store",
        "*.class",
        "*.psd",
        "*.db",
        "*.sublime*"
    ],
    "folder_exclude_patterns":
    [
        ".svn",
        ".git",
        ".hg",
        "CVS",
        "FirePHPCore"
    ],
    "font_options":
    [
        "no_bold",
        "no_italic"
    ],
    "font_size": 16.0,
    "highlight_line": true,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
    ],
    "line_padding_bottom": 1,
    "rulers":
    [
        80
    ],
    "save_on_focus_lost": true,
    "shift_tab_unindent": true,
    "tab_size": 2,
    "theme": "Soda Light.sublime-theme",
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "trim_automatic_white_space": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
    "word_wrap": false
}
~~~

## Key bindings

These can be changed by going to Preferences > Key Bindings - User.

~~~
[
    { "keys": ["alt+s"], "command": "toggle_side_bar" },
    { "keys": ["alt+r"], "command": "reindent" }
]
~~~

## Packages

These are the packages that I currently have installed.

* [DocBlockr](https://github.com/spadgos/sublime-jsdocs "DocBlockr on GitHub")
* [Drupal API](https://github.com/BrianGilbert/Sublime-Text-2-Goto-Drupal-API)
* [LESS](https://github.com/danro/LESS-sublime)
* [Package Control](http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control)
* [Sublime CodeIntel](http://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel)
* [Theme - Soda](https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme)