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linuxsublimetext3
user3431010
user3431010

Reputation: 61

How to get sublime text 3 to open independent UI instances

I am using sublime text 3 build 3059 in Linux. I open the UI using the command line with -new-window option and point to a file or a directory. I may do this multiple times so several UI instances will be open simultaneously. I would like separate instances of the UI to act independent of each other. Using the --new-window option gets me close but I have found that closing one instance of the UI using ctlr+q / menu->file->quit will close all open UI instances. This is not the case when I close using the X button in the upper right corner which only closes the current instances. This can be painful when there are open instances located in various virtual desktops. Then when you open a file for a quick edit and close it using ctrl+q, all UI instances are closed. This not a good user experience. Does anyone know of an option that would allow me to have ctrl+q close only the current UI instance? My real need is to have the instances to act independently.

BTW, I have found sublime text 2 post that answer this question but sublime text 3 seems to behavior differently in this regard.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1939

Answers (1)

Sergey Telshevsky
Sergey Telshevsky

Reputation: 12197

The reason for that is that ctrl+q shortcut is the shortcut to exit the application and alt+f4 is the shortcut to close window. This is simply a usability thing and it's somewhat a convention used in may more applications other than Sublime Text.

The ctrl+q shortcut is not mapped in ST settings rather is built-in for Linux version of ST. The OS X version allows remapping this through it's system hotkey settings but not the Linux one.

Thus I suggest simply trying to retrain yourself and use alt+f4 instead.

Upvotes: 2

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