Settings

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This page may contain outdated or incomplete information. You can see a description of most available settings in the default settings file (Preferences → Settings or Default/Preferences.sublime-settings).

Global Settings

These settings can only be modified from Preferences.sublime-settings and Preferences ({platform}).sublime-settings.

theme: Theme to be used. Accepts a file base name (e. g.: Default.sublime-theme).
scroll_speed: Set to 0 to disable smooth scrolling. Set to a value between 0 and 1 to scroll slower, or set to a value larger than 1 to scroll faster.
hot_exit: Exiting the application or window with an associated project with hot_exit enabled will cause it to close immediately without prompting. Unsaved modifications and open files will be preserved and restored when next starting.
remember_open_files: Determines whether to reopen the buffers that were open when Sublime Text was last closed.
open_files_in_new_window: macOS only. When filters are opened from Finder, or by dragging onto the dock icon, this controls if a new window is created or not.
close_windows_when_empty: Close windows as soon as the last file is closed, unless there's a folder open within the window.
show_full_path: Show the full path to files in the title bar.
preview_on_click: If true, preview file contents when clicking on a file in the side bar. Double clicking or editing the preview will open the file and assign it a tab.
folder_exclude_patterns: Excludes the matching folders from the side bar, GoTo Anything, etc.
file_exclude_patterns: Excludes the matching files from the side bar, GoTo Anything, etc.
binary_file_patterns: Excludes the matching files from GoTo Anything and Find in Files but not the side bar.
show_tab_close_buttons: If false, hides the tabs' close buttons until the mouse hovers over the tab.
mouse_wheel_switches_tabs: If true, scrolling the mouse wheel will cause tabs to switch if the cursor is in the tab area.
open_files_in_new_window: macOS only. When filters are opened from Finder, or by dragging onto the dock icon, this controls whether a new window is created or not.
ignored_packages: A list of packages that will be ignored (not loaded).

File Settings

Whitespace and Indentation

auto_indent: Toggles automatic indentation.
tab_size: Number of spaces a tab is considered equal to.
translate_tabs_to_spaces: Determines whether to replace a tab character with tab_size number of spaces when ⭾ is pressed.
use_tab_stops: If translate_tabs_to_spaces is true, will make ⭾ and
⌫ insert/delete tab_size number of spaces per key press.
trim_automatic_white_space: Toggles deletion of white space added by auto_indent.
detect_indentation: Set to false to disable detection of tabs vs. spaces whenever a buffer is loaded. If set to true, it automatically will modify translate_tabs_to_spaces and tab_size.
draw_white_space: Valid values: none, selection, all.
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save: Set to true to remove white space on save.

Visual Settings

always_show_minimap_viewport: If set to true, then it will always show rectangle on minimap highlighting current document position; defualt false, which shows position only on mouse over the minimap.
color_scheme: Sets the colors used for text highlighting. Accepts a path rooted at the data directory (e.g.: Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai Bright.tmTheme).
font_face: Font face to be used for editable text.
font_size: Size of the font for editable text.
font_options: Valid values: bold, italic, no_antialias, gray_antialias, subpixel_antialias, directwrite (Windows).
gutter: Toggles display of gutter.
rulers: Columns in which to display vertical rules. Accepts a list of numeric values (such as [79, 89, 99]) or a single numeric value (for example, 79).
draw_minimap_border: Set to true to draw a border around the minimap's region corresponding to the the view's currently visible text. The active color scheme's minimapBorder key controls the border's color.
highlight_line: Set to false to stop highlighting lines with a cursor.
line_padding_top: Additional spacing at the top of each line, in pixels.
line_padding_bottom: Additional spacing at the bottom of each line, in pixels.
scroll_past_end: Set to false to disable scrolling past the end of the buffer. If true, Sublime Text will leave a wide, empty margin between the last line and the bottom of the window.
line_numbers: Toggles display of line numbers in the gutter.
word_wrap: If set to false, long lines will be clipped instead of wrapped. Scroll the screen horizontally to see the clipped text.
wrap_width: If greater than 0, wraps long lines at the specified column as opposed to the window width. Only takes effect if word_wrap is set to true.
indent_subsequent_lines: If set to false, wrapped lines will not be indented. Only takes effect if word_wrap is set to true.
draw_centered: If set to true, text will be drawn centered rather than left-aligned.
match_brackets: Set to false to disable underlining the brackets surrounding the cursor.
match_brackets_content: Set this to false if you'd rather have brackets highlighted only when the cursor is next to one.
match_brackets_square: Set to false to stop highlighting square brackets. Only takes effect if match_brackets is true.
match_brackets_braces: Set to false to stop highlighting curly brackets. Only takes effect if match_brackets is true.
match_brackets_angle: Set to false to stop highlighting angle brackets. Only takes effect if match_brackets is true.

Automatic Behavior

auto_match_enabled: Toggles automatic pairing of quotes, brackets, etc.
save_on_focus_lost: Set to true to save files automatically when switching to a different file or application.
find_selected_text: If true, the selected text will be copied into the find panel when it's shown.
word_separators: Characters considered to divide words for actions like advancing the cursor, etc. Not used for every context where a notion of a word separator is useful (for example, word wrapping). In some contexts, the text might be tokenized based on other criteria (for example, the syntax definition rules).
ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save: Always adds a new line at the end of the file if not present when saving.

System and Miscellaneous Settings

is_widget: Returns true if the buffer is an input field in a dialog, as opposed to a regular buffer.
spell_check: Toggles the spell checker.
dictionary: Word list to be used by the spell checker. Accepts a path rooted at the data directory (such as Packages/Language - English/en_US.dic). You can add more dictionaries.
fallback_encoding: The encoding to use when the encoding can't be determined automatically. ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings will be detected automatically .
default_line_ending: Determines what characters to use to designate new lines. Valid values: system (OS-dependant), windows (CRLF) and unix (LF).
tab_completion: Determines whether pressing ⭾ will insert completions.

result_file_regex and result_line_regex: Regular expressions used to extract error information from some output dumped into a view or output panel. Follows the same rules as error capturing in build systems.
result_base_dir: Folder to start looking for offending files based on information extracted with result_file_regex and result_line_regex.
build_env: List of paths to add to build systems by default.

File and Directory Settings

default_dir: Sets the default save folder for the view.

Input Settings

command_mode: If set to true, the buffer will ignore key strokes. Useful when emulating Vim's modal behavior.

Settings ​

Global Settings ​

File Settings ​

Whitespace and Indentation ​

Visual Settings ​

Automatic Behavior ​

System and Miscellaneous Settings ​

Build and Error Navigation Settings ​

File and Directory Settings ​

Input Settings ​