Typing into blank boxes is how personal computing started. It was the interface computers had needed all along. It was search that worked for you, a terminal you wanted to use. Tell the program what you wanted to do, and it’d do it.
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With the Package Manager plugin, you could browse Sublime Text add-ons and install them, like a mini keyboard-powered App Store.Ĭompared to clicking each menu looking for a command, or hovering over every button in a toolbar, waiting for its tooltip to flash for a second with a hint of what it does, the Command Palette felt like magic. Type Theme to change your text colors without clicking. Type Save to find the Save as… command without looking through the File menu. This time, you’d press CMD/ Ctrl+ Shift+ P and get a search bar, only here you’d search through program features. “The Command Palette provides a quick way to access commands that don't warrant a key binding, and would usually be hidden away in a menu,” explained Skinner. Within months, that search pane gained a companion: The now-famous Command Palette. Seems simple enough: You think of a file you need, and without leaving the keyboard can switch to that file and continue work. Open a folder, press CMD/ Ctrl+ P, start typing to see a list of matching files, then press Enter to jump to it.
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“Goto Anything” is how it started, a search pane to jump to other files. It took little under a decade for the headline feature developer Jon Skinner added to Sublime Text’s second version to become one of the defining features of this decade’s software.