Installing Packages in Sublime Text 2

Installing Packages in Sublime Text 2

# Installing Packages in Sublime Text 2

Installing packages in Sublime Text 2 is a great way to take advantage of plethora of pre-built tools developed by the community, ranging from themes that customize the look of your editor to support for different language styles, such as for Jade.

In order to take advantage of all of the wonderful packages out there, the first step is to install Package Control. So let's do that now.

1. Open the console in Sublime by clicking *View* in the menu bar, then *Show Console*.

	![Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/vbAG7k2.png?1)

2. Enter `import urllib2,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404' + 'e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); os.makedirs( ipp ) if not os.path.exists(ipp) else None; urllib2.install_opener( urllib2.build_opener( urllib2.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib2.urlopen( 'http://sublime.wbond.net/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); open( os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by) if dh == h else None; print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h) if dh != h else 'Please restart Sublime Text to finish installation')`

3. Restart Sublime.

####To run Package Control and install a package, 
	
1. Type `command + shift + p`
2. Start typing *Install Package*, and hit enter to be brought to the installer mode.
3. Type in the name of the package you would like to install, hit enter, and you're all done!

A few packages that I recommend include:

+ Theme - Spacegray --> my theme
+ ColorPick --> reveals a color picker for quick color selection
+ HTML Snippets --> great snippets to autocomplete mundane typing for html
+ CSS Snippets --> great snippets to autocomplete mundane typing for css
+ Jade --> support for the jade language

To find more great packages, [check this out!](https://sublime.wbond.net/)

Fast-forward so many years later, and I still can't get "Package Control:" to show up in the command palette, and thus cannot install INI/REG highlighting. And no, it's not on the ignore list (Sublime 2.0).