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How to Install Sublime Text 2 in ubuntu 12.04 and set default editor for PHP, Python, CSS, HTML, Perl, Javascript and Ruby

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance
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Download and Install Sublime Text 2:

Section titled “Download and Install Sublime Text 2:”
$ cd /usr/src/
$ sudo wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1.tar.bz2
$ sudo tar xvzf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1.tar.bz2
$ mv Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1 SublimeText2

Create Desktop Shortcut:

Section titled “Create Desktop Shortcut:”
$ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/SublimeText2.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=2.0.1
Type=Application
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/usr/src/SublimeText2/Icon/48x48/sublime_text.png
Name=Sublime Text 2
Comment=Programming IDE
Exec=/usr/src/SublimeText2/sublime_text
Categories=Application;Development;

Set Default Editor for PHP, Python, CSS, HTML, Perl, Javascript and Ruby:

Section titled “Set Default Editor for PHP, Python, CSS, HTML, Perl, Javascript and Ruby:”
$ vi ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
[Default Applications]
text/css=SublimeText2.desktop
text/x-python=SublimeText2.desktop
text/html=SublimeText2.desktop
application/x-php=SublimeText2.desktop
application/x-ruby=SublimeText2.desktop
application/x-perl=SublimeText2.desktop
application/javascript=SublimeText2.desktop