Making Sublime Text 2 Pretty
I recently started using Sublime Text 2. It’s a copy of the good parts of TextMate, with improvements on the bad parts. “Command T” is quite a bit faster on bigger projects, it has split windows to see multiple files at a time and plugins can be written in Python. Only visually is Sublime lacking behind TextMate in the default setting. Fortunately, there are ways to fix the visual appearance.
Get a nice icon
The default icon of Sublime Text 2 (left) looks imho rather ugly. Luckily, multiple people have created alternative icons. I like the one create by DesignKode (second from left) the most. If you prefer to keep closer to the original icon, Daniel Matarazzo and Dan Perrera have created other nice replacements.
Get a nice theme
Not only is the default icon ugly, but the default theme also doesn’t really look right. Fortunately, Ian Hill did an excellent job at creating the Soda theme as an alternative to the default theme. It ships in a beautiful light and dark variant.
Hint Make sure to select the matching syntax highlighting to get a coherent color style across editor and syntax coloring.