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Goto Anything

Using Goto Anything, you can navigate your project's files swiftly.

Keyboard shortcuts related to Goto Anything:

Description	Shortcut
Open Goto Anything	Ctrl P
Open current item	⏎
Open current item and keep panel open	→
Close Goto Anything	Esc

As you type into Goto Anything's input area, names of files in the current project will be searched, and a preview of the best match will be shown. This preview is transient; that is, it won't become the actual active view until you perform some operation on it. You will find transient views in other situations, for example, after clicking on a file in the sidebar.

Goto Anything lives up to its name – there's more to it than locating files.

Goto Anything Operators

Goto Anything accepts several operators. All of them can be used on their own or after the search term.

Example:

models:100

This instructs Sublime Text to first search for a file whose path matches models, and then to go to line 100 in said file.

Supported Operators

@symbol : Searches the active file for the symbol named symbol.

Note

Symbols usually include class and function names.

Symbol searches will only yield results if the active file type has symbols defined for it. For more information about symbols, see Symbols.

#term : Performs a fuzzy search of the term search term and highlights all matches.

:line_number : Goes to the specified line_number, or to the end of the file if line_number is larger that the file's line count.

The Goto Anything operators are bound to the following shortcuts:

Description	Shortcut
@	Ctrl R
#	Ctrl ;
:	Ctrl G

Goto Symbol In Project

The Goto Anything shortcuts navigate the current file. If you have a project open, you can press Ctrl ⇧ R to launch Goto Anything In Project. This command will search for symbols across every file in your project.

Sidebar

The sidebar provides an overview of the active project (more on projects later). Files and folders in the sidebar will be available in Goto Anything and project-wide actions like, for example, project-wide searches.

Projects and the sidebar are closely related. It's important to note that there's always an active project; if you haven't opened a project file, an anonymous project will be used instead.

The sidebar provides basic file management operations through its context menu.

These are common keyboard shortcuts related to the side bar:

Description	Shortcut
Toggle side bar	Ctrl K, Ctrl B
Give the focus to the side bar	Ctrl 0
Return the focus to the view	Esc
Navigate side bar	Arrow keys

Files opened from the sidebar create semi-transient views. Unlike transient views, semi-transient views show up as a new tab. The tab title of semi-transient views appears in italics. Before a new semi-transient view is opened, any other pre-existing semi-transient view in the same pane gets automatically closed.

Here's an example showing a normal view, a transient view, and a semi-transient view. Notice that the transient view has no tab:

Panes

Panes are groups of views. In Sublime Text, you can have multiple panes open at the same time.

Main keyboard shortcuts related to panes:

Description	Shortcut
Create new pane	Ctrl K, Ctrl ↑
Close active pane	Ctrl K, Ctrl ↓

Further pane management commands can be found under View → Layout and related submenus.