How to setup sublime as a beautiful latex editor | Dark Mode | Windows

2 min readMay 29, 2021

Download and Install

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Full dark mode Sublime-LaTeX-Sumatra setup

Setup Sublime

Open the Command Palette: Press Ctrl+Shift+P
Type install in the Command Palette input box, which should autocomplete to “Install Package Control”. Press Enter to select it.
Sublime Text 3 will start installing Package Control. This may take a short while. Once installed, a pop-up will display the message: “Package Control was successfully installed”.
Go to Preferences → Package Settings → Package Control → Settings and replace the content on the right side with the following

{
 "bootstrapped": true,
 "in_process_packages":
 [
 ],
 "installed_packages":
 [
  "A File Icon",
  "Agila Theme",
  "AutoPEP8",
  "ayu",
  "DistractionFreeWindow",
  "Dracula Color Scheme",
  "Fold Comments",
  "ImageMagick",
  "LaTeX Word Count",
  "LaTeX-cwl",
  "LaTeXTab",
  "LaTeXTools",
  "Non Text Files",
  "Package Control",
  "Python 3",
  "SideBarEnhancements",
 ]
}

Save the file. This will automatically install all the packages necessary for the setup. Wait for 5–10 mins for the installation to complete.
Next open Preferences → Settings and replace the content on the right side with the following.

{
 "auto_complete_triggers":
 [
  {
   "characters": ".",
   "selector": "source.python - string - comment - constant.numeric"
  },
  {
   "characters": "\\",
   "selector": "text.tex.latex"
  }
 ],
 "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Mariana.sublime-color-scheme",
 "default_line_ending": "unix",
 "font_size": 14,
 "ignored_packages":
 [
  "Vintage"
 ],
 "open_externally_patterns":
 [
  "*.jpg",
  "*.jpeg",
  "*.png",
  "*.gif",
  "*.zip",
  "*.pdf"
 ],
 "rulers":
 [
  100
 ],
 "tab_size": 4,
 "theme": "Agila.sublime-theme",
 "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true
}

Go to Preferences→Key Bindings and replace the content on the right side with the following

[
    { "keys": ["f1"], "command": "toggle_side_bar" },
    { "keys": ["f2"], "command": "distraction_free_window" },
    { "keys": ["f3"], "command": "fold" },
    { "keys": ["f4"], "command": "unfold" },
]

Check the sublime latex integration

Now finally go to Preferences→Package settings→Latex tools→Check system to check whether everything is fine or not.

Set up Sumatra

Hide the toolbar and bookmarks bar from the view menu.
Go to Settings→Options and uncheck “Show the bookmarks sidebar when available” and “Use Tabs”

Dark theme

In Sumatra PDF go to Settings→Advanced Options. The settings will open in a new text document. Change the MainWindowBackground = #252a33 and replace the code in FixedPageUI with the following

FixedPageUI [
 # Light Mode
 # TextColor = #000000
 # BackgroundColor = #ffffff# Dark Mode
 TextColor = #ffffff
 BackgroundColor = #343d46SelectionColor = #f5fc0c
 WindowMargin = 2 4 2 4
 PageSpacing = 4 4
]