Editing Sublime Text packages

published 2014-03-03

I have finally decided to configure Sublime Text 2 to have it autocomplete Lua code the way I want it to.

For instance, by default, when you start typing `function` and hit TAB, you get the following result:

function function_name( ... )
  -- body
end

Instead I wanted this:

function(self)
  error("unimplemented")
end

It turns out this is very simple. Go to `Preferences -> Browse Packages...` and open the Lua directory. There are several files there, including two named function-(fun).sublime-snippet and function-(function).sublime-snippet which do almost the same thing.

Remove the first one and open the second one in a text editor. Its content should be something like:

<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[function ${1:function_name}( ${2:...} )
    ${0:-- body}
end]]></content>
    <tabTrigger>function</tabTrigger>
    <scope>source.lua</scope>
    <description>function</description>
</snippet>

Replace it by:

<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[function(${1:self})
    ${0:error("unimplemented")}
end]]></content>
    <tabTrigger>function</tabTrigger>
    <scope>source.lua</scope>
    <description>function</description>
</snippet>

... and that is all, the deed is done!