Sublime Text packages: working in 2 and 3

I maintain the Git package for Sublime Text. It’s popular, which is kind of fun and also occasionally stressful. I recently did a major refactor of it, and want to share a few tips. I needed to refactor it because, back when the Sublime Text 3 beta came out, I had made a branch of …

Sublime Text 2 git plugin

I wrote a git plugin for Sublime Text 2. I’d decided to try Sublime out for work to see how it compared to TextMate… and thus some degree of git integration was required. Given that it’s been out since January, I was surprised that there wasn’t already a solid git plugin. I did find this …

Python whitespace doesn’t matter

If you have some programming experience then there is one particular feature of Python that is likely to turn you off. Whitespace matters. Indentation is significant. This comes as a shock to many people who are used to it being meaningless. Most languages in common use designate code blocks with braces ({ … }), or …