Question

Maybe title is a little bit sophisticated, but situation is simpler:

In Sublime text 2 for the ‘Java Properties’ scope (for the files with ‘*.properties’ extension) doesn’t work shortcut ‘comment a line’ (Ctrl+/ in Win).

So maybe someone knows how to implement this functionality? I’ve tried, but ‘Java Properties’ doesn’t have separate package and this is confused me.

use case:

-> label.quantity = Quantity

-> (Ctrl+/)

-> #label.quantity = Quantity

that’s it.

Answer 1

I was trying to find a solution to the same problem, and came up with a solution which works for me. It is possible to have multiple files in the same package which specify comments, so I added another file called Comments-properties.tmPreferences, in the Java package with these contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Comments</string>
    <key>scope</key>
    <string>source.java-props</string>
    <key>settings</key>
    <dict>
        <key>shellVariables</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>TM_COMMENT_START</string>
                <key>value</key>
                <string># </string>
            </dict>
        </array>
    </dict>
    <key>uuid</key>
    <string>B25BCBF0-6483-11E2-BCFD-0800200C9A66</string>
</dict>
</plist>