Atom (text editor)
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Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.
Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows. It includes plugins written in Node.js and embedded Git control support developed by GitHub. Most extension packages are under free software licenses and are built and maintained by the community. Atom is based on Chromium and written in CoffeeScript. It can also be used as an IDE. The official 1.0 version was released on June 25, 2015.
License
Initially, extension packages for Atom and the parts not belonging to Atom's core were released under open-source licenses. On May 6, 2014, the rest of Atom, including the core application, Atom's package manager, and Atom's Chromium-based desktop application framework Electron (formerly Atom Shell), was released as free software under the MIT License.
Command Palette
In that welcome screen, we are introduced to probably the most important command in Atom, the “Command Palette”. If you hit cmd-shift-P while focused in an editor pane, the command palette will pop up.
Install
First, install the plugin in a terminal as follows.
Then, entering atom new in the Command Palette copies a session code to the clipboard. You can use this code to invite others.
AtomPair
Remote pairing within the Atom text editor, powered by Pusher.
xml-formatter
Simple XML Formatter, hit CMD-SHIFT-X on a Mac or SHIFT-CTRL-X on Windows or Linux.
Command
The following commands are available in the command palette.
- AtomPair: Invite over slack
- AtomPair: Invite over hipchat
- AtomPair: Join pairing session
- AtomPair: Start new pairing session