Deactivate preview on right click

Question

I'm on Windows (7 and XP, 64bit and 32bit). When I right click on a file, it opens inside the editor (which is handy sometimes, but mostly annoying, e.g. for pdf, etc.). Is there an option to stop sublime text from opening files on right click?

Note: I have the SideBarEnhancement plugin installed.

Answer 1

This is the default action for the side bar - if you click on a file (right-click or left) a preview will open up in the editor. To avoid this, open Preferences -> Settings - User and add

"preview_on_click": false

to the file. Make sure to add a trailing comma if it's not the last entry in the list.

Another option is to ensure that certain file types are not displayed in the side bar. The defaults are:

"file_exclude_patterns": ["*.pyc", "*.pyo", "*.exe", "*.dll", "*.obj","*.o", "*.a", "*.lib", "*.so", "*.dylib", "*.ncb", "*.sdf", "*.suo", "*.pdb", "*.idb", ".DS_Store", "*.class", "*.psd", "*.db", "*.sublime-workspace"]

but you can add additional values in your Preferences - just make sure you include everything that's there already, or it won't be excluded. For example, you could add "*.pdf", "*.tif", "*.jpg", etc., depending on what type of files you encounter regularly.

Finally, you can exclude entire folders from being displayed - the defaults are:

"folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS"]

so as to not display version control system directories, but you could just as easily add "images" for example if you do web development work.

Good luck!