You can open as many tabsets as you’d like, dividing Light Table into halves, thirds, and so on. By choosing this command, you’ll see that Light Table will split your editor window, and you can drag any open tabs to the top of the new tabset to view them there. To add a tabset, open up the command pane and type “tabset” to find the command Tabset: Add a tabset. While your files are consolidated into tabs, sometimes you need to see things side-by-side, and for this there are tabsets. From there you can navigate to a website, or preview locals files on your machine. This will open a browser window with the URL bar at the bottom. If you open the command pane and begin typing “browser”, you’ll see an option called Browser: add browser tab. Tabs don’t have to be just your files though - Light Table can also open a browser window in a tab. Light Table opens each of your files as a tab so as you open multiple files you can easily navigate between them. The navigate pane is a filter list just like the command pane to make it easy for you to find your files. It’s also useful to note that once a file has been added to your workspace, you can easily access it later with the navigate pane, which you can bring up with Cmd-O. If you clear the workspace or open a new window of Light Table, the workspace will be blank, but you can switch back to an old workspace by clicking on the recent button and selecting any of your old workspaces. If you right click on files and folders already in the workspace, it gives you options such as renaming them, removing them from the workspace, or adding more folders inside others. If you right click on a blank area in the workspace, it gives you the option to add files or folders. By going to View -> Workspace you can open the workspace tree on the left, where you’ll see the options to open a folder, a file, or recent workspaces. If you’re working with multiple files, it’s inefficient to open them individually with the native open dialog, so instead we’ll use the workspace. You can also open a file already on your computer with Cmd-Shift-O or File -> Open file. Cmd-N or File -> New file will let you create a new file in a new tab, which will be untitled for the time being. To begin working in Light Table, all you need to do is create a new file or open an existing one. One other small detail to notice here is that any command that has a keybinding associated with it will show that keybinding in underneath the command in the list. You can find nearly any command in the command pane, from creating new files to customizing your Light Table experience. For example, I could type “ltd” to match “Light Table’s documentation”. In essence, it means you can type letters and as long as those letters appear in order in any list item, the command pane will show that item to you. The command pane is a filter list, which is a useful feature that will narrow down the results based on what you type. By hitting Ctrl-Space or going to View -> Commands, the command pane comes up, where you can type in whatever you want to do. In general, the best place to start finding things you can do in Light Table is use the command pane on the right. You can open the documentation at any time from the help menu, or on the web at. These docs have basic directions if you ever get lost or need to figure something out. The main screen is pretty basic, but it contains an important link - Light Table’s documentation.

So let’s start by simply opening Light Table. For up-to-date configuration, see this section for keymaps and this section for behaviors Note: Videos are based on an older version that has an outdated configuration format.

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