How can I catch key presses and deny them before they get into the view without setting up key bindings? I want to catch all user input and then decide what to write into the view.

When I try to install a plugin I get this:

startup, version: 3059 osx x64 channel: stable
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
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packages path: /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
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zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
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>>> import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://sublime.wbond.net/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)
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reloading plugin Package Control.Package Control
found 2 files for base name Main.sublime-menu
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2014-02-14 10:48:26, next run at 2014-02-14 11:48:26 or after
Package Control: Error parsing JSON from channel https://sublime.wbond.net/browse.
Exception in thread Thread-7:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "X/threading.py", line 639, in _bootstrap_inner
File "package_control.downloaders.background_downloader in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 61, in run
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 77, in prefetch
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 77, in <listcomp>
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 219, in get_packages
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 111, in fetch
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 153, in fetch_location
File "package_control.download_manager in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 209, in fetch
File "package_control.downloaders.urllib_downloader in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 202, in download
Package Control.package_control.downloaders.downloader_exception.DownloaderException: Error downloading repository. HTTP exception InvalidURL (nonnumeric port: 'pderichs') downloading http://github.com:pderichs/sublime_rubocop.git.
Exception in thread Thread-6:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "X/json/decoder.py", line 368, in raw_decode
File "X/json/scanner.py", line 63, in _scan_once
StopIteration
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 168, in fetch_location
File "X/json/__init__.py", line 309, in loads
File "X/json/decoder.py", line 352, in decode
File "X/json/decoder.py", line 370, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "X/threading.py", line 639, in _bootstrap_inner
File "package_control.downloaders.background_downloader in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 61, in run
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 77, in prefetch
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 77, in <listcomp>
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 219, in get_packages
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 111, in fetch
File "package_control.providers.repository_provider in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 170, in fetch_location
Package Control.package_control.providers.provider_exception.ProviderException: Error parsing JSON from repository https://sublime.wbond.net/.
Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "X/threading.py", line 639, in _bootstrap_inner
File "package_control.commands.install_package_command in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 43, in run
File "package_control.package_installer in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 54, in make_package_list
File "package_control.package_manager in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 260, in list_available_packages
File "package_control.downloaders.background_downloader in /Users/seancarolan/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Package Control.sublime-package", line 52, in get_provider
KeyError: 'https://sublime.wbond.net/'

in some situations, with a low number of files in the filtered list (2 or 3) it's hard to tell apart the item that is currently selected from the other ones listed. Could we add a bit more of highlight love to that selection? Maybe a thin border around the row or something like that?

For instance, in the following image can you easily tell which item is selected?

For project settings it would be nice to be able to define "files" as well as "folders".  Sometime there are files that might exist outside of a directory.  Rather than including an entire folder only to exclude all but one or two files it would be nice to be able to just include specific files.  This could take many of the same parameters as the folders, name, path, etc.  Of course the exclude patterns wouldn't make sense to include.

Example:

{
    "files":
        [
            {
                "path": "/path/to/my/file.txt"
            },
            {
                "path": "/path/to/my/other/file.txt"
            }
        ]
}

PS. Great work.  This is an awesome project.  I am hoping I can get our whole development team using it.

I'm a writer not a coder but Scrivener on Linux (still in beta) is not yet able to handle the number of files and the sizes that I'm working with.  Sublime Text can, though it lacks a few of the basic features that would make it just as useful.  I'm not talking about the text formatting, which really gets in the way anyway and can be done in a word processor/LaTex later.  But being able to compile and export files as EPUB / PDF / concatenated txt, also being able to arrange the different txt files into a tree structure and also being able to edit them in a continuous draft.  Sublime Text is great as it opens instantly, I can work with thousands of fragments at once, but there does not seem to be anyway of ordering these.  Also it is hard to find specific settings and resources, tutorials solely for the prose writer....make all this a bit easier, or even have another version without any of the coding tools, and you'll have a whole new market....

Would be nice to have this functionality. I tried to create a syntax highlight but it seems impossible to change the background on the fly.

Make matching pairs of parenthesis different colors depending on how deep they are, the outside pair red, the next pair orange, yellow and so on. I think it would make long lines of math (especially trig) much easier to read, aswell as long if statement conditions that need specified orders etc.

There's a little bug since build 2157, when you delete the root folder of a project, the folder is moved to the trash but it stay showing in the sidebar.

When we have a splited screen, the number of the line where the cursor is set is still highlighted in the idle splited screens. This is quite confusing, especially when the highlight_line option is on.

Please turn off the highlitght of the line where the cursor is set in the idle buffer

External syntax repositories should be referenceable in syntax definitions, e.g. it should be supported to have an "include" key with value "source.erlang#comment".

A way to set a new default Icon (not overwritten on updates) would be really nice. Discussion here:

I've come from a PC using Notepad++ where i can, eg, hold ctrl and press an arrow to jump between words. But on OSX i need to hold alt to do the same thing. It'd be GREAT if there was an option to remap this, and all the other shortcuts, on osx. PLEASE

When save_on_focus_lost is enabled, deleting the file and then switching to ST and back leads to the file being immediately recreated with the old name. If I delete the directory, ST will start complaining that it couldn't save the file. ST should check that the file exists before saving and disable autosave if it's gone.

Here is an example regex: #".*\"(.*)\".*"

The command palette crashes when one does as follows: