I’m wondering if there is a simple way to disable all plugins temporarily?

It’s not possible to disable all plugins since Sublime itself uses plugins for some of it’s core functionality.

If you mean disable all downloaded plugins or custom plugins, then you may want to ask @wbond if he can work something like that into his Package Control package manager.

This is not complicated to do. You could write a simple plugin to search Packages for all folders, and add them to your disable plugin settings in Preferences.sublime-setttings. You could even add an exclude list for default packages if you like.

I don’t have time to throw this together, but it would be a fairly simple/straight forward plugin.

A plugin to disable plugins?

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A plugin to disable plugins? [/quote]

The irony is not lost on me . Though technically, it could be done as an external python script as well. I guess that may make a bit more sense because then it could also re-enable the plugins as well because it would probably disable itself as well.