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Re:Sublime Text packages by rcknight on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:01AM (#6133042)
Does this offer any real benefit over the official list on the sublime package control page?

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community

One suggestion to bring it to at least feature parity: It is useful to display the operating systems that each package supports.

Re:Sublime Text packages by wbond on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:24AM (#6133856)
Just a heads up for anyone interested. I've been working on a very significant revamp of the Package Control site that coincides with all of my work on Package Control 2.0. I've been pushing hard the past couple of weeks, with a hopeful launch in the next couple of days.
Re:Sublime Text packages by tlongren on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:27AM (#6133886)
that is so awesome.
Re:Sublime Text packages by hackula1 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:09PM (#6134761)
I just do cmd+shft+p > Install Package

That gives you instant search.

Re:Sublime Text packages by stphnclysmth on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:17PM (#6135278)
The benefit of an online listing is easy access to package descriptions and repositories. When there are multiple packages for a given task, I'd like to know which is more heavily updated and supported. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there's a way to open the Github page from that menu.
Re:Sublime Text packages by wbond on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:23PM (#6135809)
Yeah, I've been aware of a lot of these limitations for quite a while. The new Package Control site solves these problems, plus a whole lot more.

I'm very excited about the launch - with any luck I should have something to show off in the next couple of days!

Re:Sublime Text packages by neotek on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:35AM (#6133193)
When I middle-click on a link, I expect it to open in a new tab. When browsing lists of things I tend to scroll through the list and open a bunch of tabs, then peruse them at my leisure later on, and I can't do that on your site.
Re:Sublime Text packages by teh_klev on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:48AM (#6133266)
Middle click to open in a new tab seems ok for me (Chrome 28 Stable on Win7 x64).
Re:Sublime Text packages by brbcoding on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:07AM (#6133370)
Middle click doesn't seem to work on Chrome 28.0.1500.72 on Win8 x64... It does, however, work on 30.0.1582.0 canary.
Re:Sublime Text packages by mercnet on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:53PM (#6137911)
Middle click does not work for Chromium 28.0.1500.71 :(
Re:Sublime Text packages by dreen on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:35PM (#6135900)
Win 7 Chrome 28 works fine
Re:Sublime Text packages by schappim on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:37AM (#6133532)
Mod, could you please fix the typo in the title from pacakges to packages!
Re:Sublime Text packages by flurdy on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:52AM (#6133286)
So glad more people than me frequently misspell pacakges...
Re:Sublime Text packages by Jemaclus on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:42PM (#6135028)
Couple of suggestions:

* Add categories (by language, software integration, accessibility, whatever) * Add links to the package website and/or Github url * Add screenshots for every package, especially themes. Nothing worse than clicking on "Uber Theme VIII" only to see that it says "Here's a new theme called Uber Theme VIII" but I'd have to install it to find out what it looks like. No thanks.

Re:Sublime Text packages by stphnclysmth on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:13PM (#6135247)
There's a small link to the repository in the meta line below each project description, next to the last modified date. It's hard to find. I was coming here to suggest that on package detail pages, the package name should link to the project repository, and not recursively to the detail page. That was my instinctual expectation.
Re:Sublime Text packages by 0k1n on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:02PM (#6136479)
hey, site author here

I'm planning to add these features in the upcoming days/weeks:

- load package infos from other sources than github - st 2/3 version compatibility - supported platform - faceted search

right now the website is as minimal as possible, I wanted to ship something as quickly as possible to have the fastest possible feedback. I wasn't expecting someone to post on HN though — nor my poor ec2 micro instance did ;)

> links to the package website and/or Github url

It's always there :)

> Add screenshots for every package, especially themes

Lots of theme developers already put theme in their README, though I agree some don't and it's painful. I'll see what I can do.

Re:Sublime Text packages by dombili on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:38AM (#6133212)
A bit off topic, but it's better to ask here than to create another thread.

I'm teaching myself HTML, and CSS and JS (jQuery). Are there any essential Sublime Text packages that I have to install? I searched it on DDG but it wasn't very helpful (most of the articles were outdated).

PS: I only have "Package Control" installed.

Re:Sublime Text packages by raziel2p on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:41AM (#6133222)
Have to, absolutely not - but you'll find that Emmet is extremely useful for HTML.
Re:Sublime Text packages by JonnieCache on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:50AM (#6133273)
Some non language specific ones I use constantly: SublimeLinter, Sidebar Enhancements, Git, Quick File Creator, FileDiffs.
Re:Sublime Text packages by shade on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:50AM (#6133611)
Thanks for the tip on Quick File Creator. I'm a pretty heavy Sublime Text user and that just solved a pain point for me.

Another one that's useful for me in web-related work and not specific to any particular language is the Web Encoders plugin: https://github.com/revolunet/sublimetext-web-encoders -- I often use it when I need to test URL encoding/decoding stuff.

Re:Sublime Text packages by thoughtpalette on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:56AM (#6134635)
Does anyone know what package is being used for the Blue folder icons and search bar icons?

http://sublimepackages.com/#/details/theme-flatland

Re:Sublime Text packages by publicfig on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:00PM (#6135621)
I think that's flatland itself.
Re:Sublime Text packages by thoughtpalette on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:21PM (#6135789)
Oh neat. I didn't want to change the text theme since I like monokai.

Thanks for responding!

Re:Sublime Text packages by joshuak on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:30PM (#6135868)
Am I the only one that is annoyed that the MXML/AS highlighting package is called flex, and there is no flex lexer highlighting package?
Re:Sublime Text packages by znowi on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:34PM (#6135428)
Error: EMFILE, open '/var/www/stpackages/static/index.html'

Node.js isn't happy :)

Re:Sublime Text packages by heydanreeves on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:14AM (#6133091)
Is it just painfully slow for me?
Re:Sublime Text packages by taspeotis on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:30AM (#6133162)
I got a "502 Bad Gateway | nginx" error, then it loaded (nice use of Bootstrap 3 RC1) and then it was slow.
Re:Sublime Text packages by kilkurdu on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:29AM (#6133156)
not just for you..
Re:Sublime Text packages by auxbuss on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:05PM (#6136486)
Nice works. Thanks. HN is a tough crowd, but means well. Great advice here.
Re:Sublime Text packages by sirwitti on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:01PM (#6135156)
ReferenceError: angular is not defined

Maybe this still needs some love...

Re:Sublime Text packages by bownanaking on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:22AM (#6133124)
Why voting on this?