I already have finder showing hidden files by using

  defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

However, sublime text will not allow me to open hidden files still.

I'm looking for a programmatic way to accomplish this. So that I don't have to type a special key combination for each dialog.

CodePudding user response：

Press "Command" "Shift" "." (dot) to show hidden files in the Mac OSX file chooser dialog. You can also modify the folder_exclude_patterns setting. The default value for this is "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS"]. In your case, you would want to make it "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".hg", "CVS"] You can access user settings by going to Preferences -> Settings - User

CodePudding user response：

The defaults write command you entered only set AppleShowAllFiles to true (or YES, they're equivalent) for Finder. To enable showing hidden files in all programs, enter

defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles YES

The -g flag means "global", setting the AppleShowAllFiles attribute to true for all programs.

You'll have to restart Sublime after entering this command.