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A quick update for those of you who are using the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 2 PPA: until now, the PPA had Sublime Text 2 development builds only but starting today, you can install either Sublime Text 2 beta or the latest Sublime Text 2 development build, from the same PPA. The recommended package is Sublime Text 2 beta, because it's more stable.

With this change, there are also new package names: for the development builds: sublime-text-2-dev and for the beta: sublime-text-2-beta. However, if you want to continue using the development builds, there's no need to install any new package: the "sublime-text-2" package is now a metapackage that automatically installs sublime-text-2-dev (I've done this so those who are using the PPA and aren't reading this, still get Sublime Text 2 updates).

If you like Sublime Text 2, you'll love Sublime Package Control, a cross-platform package manager that lets you easily discover, install and update various packages (plugins) for Sublime Text 2. 

Here are some of the plugins that you can install using Sublime Package Control: GIT, Mercurial or SFTP/FTP support, CSS Less (code folding and nesting for CSS), GoTo Recent, HeX viewer and editor, jQuery snippets pack, Vim / Emacs like modelines, SCSS bundle, Open Terminal, JSLint, PowerShell Utils, LaTeX Tools, HTML5 bundle, Zen Coding and many others. 

Sublime Text 2 is an excellent TextMate alternative (text editor) that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. The application is not free, but you can evaluate it for an unlimited amount of time.

I've recently stumbled upon (via HK) a GIT plugin for Sublime Text 2 which can display a log or diff, do a quick commit and a few more basic Git commands. It doesn't support every Git command, but it's a nice addition for those of you who are using Sublime Text 2. 

The Git plugin, just like Sublime Text 2, is cross-platform and easy to install too!

cd ~/.config/sublime-text-2/Packages/