Sublime Auto Indent

Published on: February 27, 2014

I recently discovered how to get Sublime to fix indentations for you! Since I spend a certain amount of time each day pushing characters left and right this was pretty exciting. Hope you find it useful!

In Sublime, under Preference select Key Bindings - User. If you've got anything in there already, just add the { "keys"... } section below. Otherwise you can replace the [] with:

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[
  { "keys": ["super+i"],
    "command": "reindent"}
]

Now you can use cmd + i (mac), or ctrl + i (windows) to auto indent your code. It’s not always perfect, but it’s helped me with my rails code.

What’s happening here?

"keys" labels the next section as the keys that will trigger the action.
["super+i"] means “use whatever this computer defaults to” (cmd for macs, ctrl for windows) and i to trigger the action.
"command" labels which command the given key binding should trigger.
"reindent" is the command that will run on the given key press. You can find a list of commands to use in the docs.