Sublime on WSL

Presumably you will need some sort of text editor to edit your code. You can use VisualStudio, which reportedly has a nice integration with WSL2. I prefer to use Sublime Text, as it is a lighter application. To launch Sublime text from the Linux command line, you’ll need to configure the ~/.bashrc file, which defines aliases for the Linux command line.

First, make sure Sublime Text is installed on Windows. Likely it is installed at the following location : C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/subl.exe. You’ll need to find where the Sublime executable lives, so that we can alias it in Linux.

1. Launch Ubuntu.
2. Edit the ~/.bashrc file.

   sudo nano ~/.bashrc
   

3. At the bottom of the file, add the following line, where the path is the proper path to your sublime installation.

   alias subl='/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 3/subl.exe'
   

4. Source the bashrc file.

   source ~/.bashrc
   

Now you can launch sublime by typing subl . within any folder.