Update — October 13, 2026: PR #432 was merged on August 23, 2021. This post documents the original issue and fix; update SideBarEnhancements before considering a manual package edit. I have not retested the workaround against current Sublime Text releases.
Recently, a feature I use relatively often in my day to day use of Sublime Text, the “Open in a New Window” command stopped working. It turns out this is not a default feature of Sublime Text, but supplied by the plugin SideBarEnhancements. The issue appears to come from a change in default behavior of the subl command which now will attempt to open a directory within an open project window if one contains that directory. A fix was easy enough, which I PR’d here, which was awaiting review when I wrote this post.
If you want to incorporate this fix into your own installation, you can edit the two lines the same as I have. If you have the PackageResourceViewer plugin installed, it is easy enough to edit the package in place.
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