Sublime Text Plugin: Activate & reload Chrome with a keyboard shorcut

It's a little known fact that you can easily make these kind of keyboard shortcuts globally by making a Service. Here's how to make a global service that reloads the browser:

  1. Open Automator
  2. Select Service
  3. Search for run Applescript
  4. Copy and paste one of the following Applescripts
  5. Change the Service receives selected drop down list to "No input" 
  6. Save the service  (Automator will ask you what to name it)

You can then find the service under "Services" inside the Application's Menu.

You can also assign it to a global shortcut by:

  1. Open the Keyboard section in System Preferences
  2. Find your service under the Services list
  3. Click the service to reveal the Add Shortcut button
  4. Type the shortcut (Like Command+Ctrl+R)

Applescript for Safari:

    on run
      tell application "Safari"
        do JavaScript "window.location.reload()" in current tab of window 1
        activate
      end tell
    end run

Applescript for Chrome:

    on run
      tell application "Google Chrome" to tell the active tab of its first window
        reload
      end tell
      tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
    end run

For anyone who wants to make this in Windows, just script it with AutoHotKey.

I have shortcut keys that send me to all of my most-used programs. For example, winkey+y moves me to chrome (if there are many open, it will cycle through them). winkey+s to Sublime Text, winkey+t to Total Commander, winkey+b to vim.

They're incredibly easy to write, and adding a refresh into it is child's play (just add a ctrl+r after moving to the window in the script).

I just use LiveReload for this.

I normally use Livereload, but this inspired me to whip up this Alfred (http://alfredapp.com) extension - https://github.com/brickattack/Chrome_Reload.alfredextension

If you map it to a global hotkey, you're not limited to using it in any one program.

Can the OP edit the title to say "for Mac OSX" please?

What a rollercoaster of emotions you put me through

Forked this so that it saves the current view (if unsaved) before reloading:

https://github.com/bradleyboy/BrowserRefresh-Sublime

Only works on Mac OS X in its current form, as it uses embedded AppleScript.

I've created an AutoHotKey script last month about that :

http://pastebin.com/uXF5B5yy