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by polyvisual 2830 days ago
I'm so lazy and it's too easy to click "Cancel"... I have a license but a year after re-installing ST I still haven't added it :/
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Just search your inbox for "sublime license", and copy the license into Sublime. The whole operation takes me below 1 minute on a new machine.
It'd be nice if there was a command line option for this actually. I have my machine setup almost entirely automated, but this is one of the manual steps I have to do.
As far as I know, it used to be just a matter of writing the plaintext license into the appropriate file: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silentl...
That's still supported, and the same technique works for Sublime Merge, fwiw.
Awesome – thanks for sharing!
Completely off topic but would you care to describe how you install your system automatically?
It's really nothing fancy, just based on strap[1] but then modified a bit. I keep my dotfiles in github and leverage homebrew for installing pretty much everything.

[1]: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap

Sounds like NixOS: https://nixos.org/