Browser Refresh for Sublime Text

This plugin adds a keyboard shortcut to Sublime Text that will refresh the browser of your choice. Optionally the plugin can “auto save” your current file and bring the desired browser to the foreground.

The default keyboard shortcuts are:

• ⌘ + Shift + R (Mac)
• Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows, Linux)

1. Install the package

With the Package Control plugin The easiest way to install Browser Refresh is through Package Control, which can be found at http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control.

Using Package Manager search for "Browser Refresh"

Without Git Download the latest source from GitHub and copy the BrowserRefresh folder to your Sublime Text “Packages” directory.

With Git Clone the repository in your Sublime Text “Packages” directory:

git clone https://github.com/gcollazo/BrowserRefresh-Sublime.git "Browser Refresh"

1.1 On Linux

Install xdotool:

sudo apt-get install xdotool

2. Configure Key Bindings

You need to add the following to your Key Bindings - User. Go to Preferences > Key Bindings - User and add the following to that file and save. Without this step the plugin will not work.

[
    {
        "keys": ["command+shift+r"], "command": "browser_refresh", "args": {
            "auto_save": true,
            "delay": 0.5,
            "activate": true,
            "browsers" : ["chrome"]
        }
    }
]

auto_save If set to true you current file in Sublime Text will be saved before refreshing the browser window.

delay Adds a delay (in seconds) before triggering the refresh. Seems to be useful if you are using a CSS or JavaScript pre-processor. The default is 0.0 seconds.

activate If set to true when you press the keys it will bring the browser to the foreground. Note: On Windows this setting is always true.

browsers Specify which browsers to refresh on command. The default is chrome which will try to refresh Google Chrome. You can change to be more specific using one of the following:

Contributions

If you have the time to make this plugin better feel free to fork and submit a pull request.

Contributors

• Enrique Ramirez (enriquein)
• generalov
• Tomáš Votruba (TomasVotruba)

License

All of Browser Refresh for Sublime Text is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright © 2012 - 2015 Giovanni Collazo

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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