From 3f6a9546ec13063d0d5bdf21d30a93d3e8aa6050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley Taunt Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:22:21 -0400 Subject: Rebuild changes based off latest barf --- build/sublime/index.html | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build/sublime/index.html (limited to 'build/sublime/index.html') diff --git a/build/sublime/index.html b/build/sublime/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f4837d --- /dev/null +++ b/build/sublime/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ + + + + + + + + Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux + + + + + + + +
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux

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2023-04-13

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Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I prefer running programs that don’t try to devour all of my machine’s available memory or spike my CPU.

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Note: It’s important to remember my personal machine is a ThinkPad X201 with only 6GB of RAM (plan to upgrade to 8GB soon!). Obviously your mileage may vary if you’re using a beefier laptop or desktop…

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In case the title of this post didn’t make this obvious, my editor of choice is Sublime Text. It’s fast, has a robust plugin ecosystem, and a very friendly community of users. Because of its popularity, troubleshooting any issues you might encounter becomes much easier with the amount of information freely available online.

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The only minor downside is that it isn’t fully open source. Personally, I think it is well worth buying a license directly from the developers to support their efforts.

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If you haven’t played around with it yet, I highly recommend giving it a try. At the very least, I guarantee you’ll be impressed with the editor’s performance and speed! [<#1>]

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One Small Problem…

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Sublime is precompiled against glibc and Alpine uses musl. This makes things a little difficult. Luckily we can get around this roadblock by falling back on flatpak (which is unfortunately still locked at version 3 for Sublime).

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You’ll need to install flatpak, give your current user permission to install flatpak apps, and then install Sublime.

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(The following snippets assume you are using doas. If you are using sudo, be sure to swap accordingly)

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apk add flatpak
+adduser <YourUsername> flatpak
+flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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Congrats. You now have setup flatpak on your machine! Next we install Sublime Text:

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flatpak install flathub com.sublimetext.three
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You could stop now and simply open Sublime anytime by running the following command in your terminal:

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flatpak run com.sublimetext.three
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This works perfectly fine but I find it a little cumbersome. I would much rather open my programs directly through dmenu. Let’s set that up.

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doas ln -s ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/com.sublimetext.three /usr/bin/sublimetext
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Now that those directories are linked, simply open dmenu and start typing sublimetext. Done and done. No more terminal commands needed to open Sublime!

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1. I am aware that using a terminal-based editor such as vim or emacs would be even more efficient. For my own personal use I find more classical “IDE” applications to work best for me. +

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