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When comparing SideBar Enhancements vs Package control, the Slant community recommends Package control for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” Package control is ranked 1st while SideBar Enhancements is ranked 2nd.
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Pros
Pro Adds goodness to context of clicks
Pro Adds a ton of functionality to the sidebar
- Move to trash
- Clipboard
- Open in browser
- Copy the content of a file as data:uri base64
- Close, move, open and restore buffers affected by a rename/move command
- Copy as tags img/a/script/style
- Duplicate
- Preference to control if a buffer should be closed when affected by a deletion operation
- Allows to display "file modified date" and "file size" on statusbar
Pro Automatically upgrades your packages
Pro Helps you discover new plugins
Package control retrieves a list of plugins from their central server, making it easier to find new plugins.
Pro Enables you to customise and extend Sublime text!
Pro Supports GitHub, BitBucket and a full channel/repository system
Pro Free
Really ease your life for free
Cons
Con Data collection
SE ships your data off to Kite.
Con ST2 version is not maintained anymore
The last ST2 version is available here. All future functionality will be added only to the ST3 version.
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