Today when Sublime saves a file and encounters a character that can't be encoded in eg ISO-8859-1, it automatically converts it to UTF-8 (and informs you with a popup dialog with just one option - OK). This destroys the file (UTF-8 encoding is in many cases non reversible), so it would be nice if this instead was a question. It would also be very nice if Sublime could highlight or somehow search for unencodable characters (characters like non-braking space is _very_ difficult to distinguish from a normal space).

 With the growing number of community packages, each one adding their own keyboard shortcut, we're to a point where we can run into conflict. May it be internationals keyboard configuration, shortcuts overwriting others plugins ones, etc.

I think we should be able to disable/protect some specific keyboard key from being used. This would allow the user to prevent packages from removing some important characters or system wide shortcuts.

Is there a keyboard shortcut or plugin to search for other occurrences of a word under cursor, like vim * and # commands?

I prefer to display open files in the sidebar instead of in tabs. It would be great to have an option to show open files inline in the folder view rather than a separate list. I think of my files grouped like my folder structure and frequently switch between files in the same folder. The open files list is a jumble of files. I can drag them around but that's more work—I already organized the files into folders. Along with this when opening a project, folders containing open files should be expanded by default so the files are visible. Please keep the one-click to display feature for open files though. In fact, I suggest it be the default behavior.

I use Sublime Text as the primary note making tool / text editor and keep it open all the time.

I have 4-5 work tabs open all the time for convenience, and 4-5 personal notes too, plus a couple of other side projects tabs open in it, which is a lot of clutter (work, side-project and personal notes mixing is really a pain while tab switching/searching/reviewing work)

I'm really looking forward to a create/save/switch tab group option so that I can switch between my tab groups like work, home etc at will without keeping all of them open at the same time or having to open each of my tabs painstakingly from the respective folders.

It's a MUCH better theme for the program, I installed it on my copy, but I think it should be used from the start
https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme

The same quick add instead of the next occurrence in the forward direction the previous occurrence of the word.

I have been experimenting with dynamically updating the language definitions in order to support higlighting of all typenames, etc in c/c++ (via libclang), and it is working great. The way it is done is a bit of a hack though, continuosly writing language definitions to disk and removing them when closing the file. Some kind of support for updating the language definitions in memory via the api would be great, and maybe not that hard to do?

Open the Find pane (Ctrl+F/Cmd+F). Click on the syntax selector in the bottom right corner of the screen and select any syntax from the list. Bam, the Find input field is now treated as a full-blown buffer with its own line numbering and syntax!

This might be useful as a feature, but the way it works now it sure looks like a bug: the syntax indicator still shows the syntax of the file, the Find input field looks ugly, and there is no way to return it to normal.

I'd like to set the size of each indent-level to be 4 characters.  I'd want the tab-character (in a file) to jump to the next 8-character boundary.

I'd expect the tab key (when pressed on the keyboard) to tab to the next indent level (4-characters), not the next tab-character level (8-characters).  I'd want the whitespace on each line to have a tab-character for every 8 spaces needed, followed by 4 more space characters if the indent-level is not a multiple of 8 characters.  This matches a style policy used in the FreeBSD project, for instance.

I can do this with preference settings in XCode, but I don't see how to do the same thing in SublimeText2.  Sorry if I'm just missing something which should be obvious!