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Xkcd

Sublime Text 3 package for viewing xkcd comics. Opens selected comic, title and alt-text in a transient view.

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Now you too can procrastinate directly from your editor!

Features

Current features:

  • Latest comic
  • List (searchable dropdown)
  • Random comic

These are all available both via the Command Palette (Ctrl++P on Windows and Linux or ++P on OS X) and via user-definable keyboard-shortcuts.

Viewing a random comic is bound Ctrl+Alt+X by default.

This package supports http(s) proxies via variables from Package Control settings ("Package Control.sublime-settings").

Installation

Ensure that you have a relatively recent version of Sublime Text installed (version 3, beta or dev release).

Via Package Control

The easiest way to install is using Sublime Package Control, where this package is listed as Xkcd.

  1. Open Command Palette using menu item Tools -> Command Palette... (Ctrl++P on Windows and Linux or ++P on OS X)
  2. Choose Package Control: Install Package
  3. Find Xkcd and hit Enter

Manual

You can also install the package manually:

  1. Download the .zip
  2. Unzip and rename the folder to xkcd
  3. Copy the folder into Packages directory, which you can find using the menu item Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Browse Packages...

Contributing

Giving feedback regarding the package is strongly encouraged.

If you run into a bug or would like to see a new feature, please open a new issue.

Contributions in the form of code (e.g. implementing new features, bug-fixes) are also appreciated.

License

This package is distributed under the terms of the 3-clause New BSD License. See the license file for details.