GitHub recently announced their hackable text editor, ATOM version 1.0. If you've ever sat through an old-school 1960s-70s era informational/educational video then you owe it to yourself to watch the announcement video. It's an instant classic.
I switched from SubLime a couple days ago and am so far pleased with the text editor. It's an open source project on GitHub and hackable in about every way possible. True to GitHub, ATOM embraces crowdsourcing and has the potential to become the most powerful and customizable text editor of this generation. It'll be interesting to see how the competition responds.
When you download ATOM (not if) you'll be given a quick introduction to the most basic customizations available. You can quickly set ATOM to run from the terminal by following these quick and easy steps.
1. After downloading move ATOM to your Applications folder.
2. Open ATOM and take your time to go through the customization options.
3. Select the ATOM menu --> Install Shell Commands and you'll be set to run the commands atom or apm (Atom Package Manager) from the terminal or Git-Bash.
Like other text editors, you can create a new file from the terminal using:
atom desired-file-name.extension
This will open atom with the specified new file.
If you need to create the file in a different directory that only requires a few steps:
cd ~ Changes directory to your home directory
mkdir new-version-control-folder Makes a new directory
cd new-version-control-folder Goes to the directory as named
atom desired-file-name.ext Open the Atom text editor and creates the file as named.
With ATOM users will be able to install a number of packages including linters, GitHub integration packages and a countless number of visual customizations for font, color and background.
Tell me what packages you've installed for ATOM and why you like them.