Sublime Text Cheat Sheet

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2026

I used to use UltraEdit for many years. They moved to a subscription model, which I am fine with, IF I am using the software and if the features they are developing align with my use of it. UltraEdit is very focussed on the developers which I am not. I found that it was not really worth the sixty dollars a year price tag. I had used Sublime Text in the past but didn’t give it too much effort. Then, I figured I would give it a chance….. and here I am now, 100% on the Sublime Text bandwagon.

Here is my Cheat Sheet for Sublime Text

Searching and Replacing

⌘ + F – Find
⌘ + G – Find Next
⌘ + ⇧ + G – Find Previous
⌘ + I – Incremental Find
⌘ + ⌥ + F – Replace
⌘ + ⌥ + E – Replace Next
⌘ + ⌥ + G – Quick Find (Selects the word under the cursor)
⌘ + ^ + G – Quick Find ALL occurrences of selected word
⌘ + E – Use Selected to Find
⌘ + ⇧ + E – Use Selected to Replace
⌘ + ⇧ + F – Find in all open files

Searching and Replacing

F6 – Toggle Spell Check on/off
^ + F6 – Next Misspelled Work
^ + ⇧ + F6 – Previous Misspelled Work
⌘ + B – Build
^ + ␣ – Show Completions
⌘ + K + U – Convert to CAPS
⌘ + K + L – Convert to Lower Case

Bookmarking

F2 – New Bookmark
⇧ + F2 – Previous Bookmark
⌘ + F2 – Switch Bookmark
⌘ + ⇧ + F2 – Clear Bookmarks

Line Manipulation

⌘ + ↩ – Insert Lines After
⌘ + ⇧ + ↩ – Insert Line Before
⌘ + ^ + ↑ – Move line up
⌘ + ^ + ↓ – Move line down
⌘ + L – Select Entire Lines and move to next line
⌘ + ^ + G – Select ALL occurrences of the selected text
⌘ + ⇧ + ↑ – Select everything above the cursor
⌘ + ⇧ + ↓ – Select everything below the cursor
⌘ + X – Cut Line
⌘ + ⇧ + K – Delete Line
⇧ + ⌘ +J – Joining Lines, Select the files and hit keys

Deleting Blank Lines

⌘ + ⌥ + F
Make sure Regular Expression is enabled (.* button should be selected on bottom left)
In the Find: field enter ^\n
Then Replace or Replace ALL

Creating a snippet

By default, Sublime Text will save your snippets in the following locations.

~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text/Packages/User/

The naming convention for the snippets is whatever-you-want then . then sublime-snippet

The following snippet is to allow me to make an address object for FortiOS. When invoked, it will add the the text and it will allow me to tab through the dynamic portions of it such as Name, Subnet, Interface. These tab selection area and their order are based on the ${X} where X is the “variable” that you define. I say that because you could set the ${1:NAME} and reference it elsewhere.

<snippet>
   <content><![CDATA[
      edit ${1:NAME}
        set subnet ${2:subnet with CIDR}
        set interface ${3:any}
      next
]]></content>
   <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
   <tabTrigger>addo</tabTrigger>
   <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
   <!-- <scope>text.plain</scope> -->
</snippet>

In my snippet, I am creating an address object for FortiGate firewalls by starting to type addo and then `⇥` (TAB). Once invoked, the entire section will appear.

Below there is a similar one for creating a VLAN

<snippet>
       <content><![CDATA[
                 edit ${1:NAME}
                    set ip ${2:SUBNET}
                    set allowaccess ${3:ping https ssh}
                    set device-identification enable
                    set interface ${4:TRUNK}
                    set vlanid ${5:VLANID}
                next
]]></content>
      <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
      <tabTrigger>vlanint</tabTrigger>
      <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
      <!-- <scope>text.plain</scope> -->
</snippet>

In this example, the trigger is vlanint followed by the TAB key.

Collapsing FortiOS sections

Another nice thing with FortiOS configs if you are using the Junos Format Selector on the bottom right…

You can collapse and expand certain sections of the config you do not want to see…..

You can see the triangles on the left side highlighted in the blue box. You can see that the VLAN interfaces are collapsed with the AP-Mgmt is expanded.

Hope this helps

Sublime Text Cheat Sheet

Searching and Replacing

Searching and Replacing

Bookmarking

Line Manipulation

Deleting Blank Lines

Creating a snippet

Collapsing FortiOS sections

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