How to prevent Sublime Text 2 from opening that last open file / project when starting up
PreferenceSublimetextPreference Problem Overview
I am on Lion - and in the command line, when I open up my project using "subl ." in my project folder - it opens up the last project I had open before I quit Sublime.
I have the Max Preference "Restore windows when quitting" unchecked.
How to I prevent this behaviour? Is there a preference setting for this?
Preference Solutions
Solution 1 - Preference
I think the behavior you want can be enabled by changing the hot_exit and remember_open_files settings. If you check out the "Global Settings - Default" preferences, there are some comments there describing these settings.
If you want to change them, you should override them in the "Global Settings - User" file to preserve your changes across updates.
Solution 2 - Preference
If anyone is wondering how to do this in sublime text 3, copy and paste the following into settings - user:
"hot_exit": false,
"remember_open_files": false,
Solution 3 - Preference
I could only get it to work by also setting "hot_exit": false in my preferences.
Solution 4 - Preference
On Linux, I had an issue where I couldn't even start Sublime Text 3 because there were too many files open and it would hang before I got a chance to change the settings.
I did what Mike Wizowski suggested and edited my $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings to include those settings.
However, restarting Sublime Text after this did not seem to fix my problem because Sublime still opened all the files and folders.
I found that deleting the 2 ".sublime_session" files in $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/ made Sublime Text forget what the recently opened files/folders were, thus fixing my hanging text editor.