If you’re just getting started with Atom Text Editor, keep reading for some best practices and tips to get going on your first project.
#Atom editor how to#
In this article, we cover the basic questions like ‘What is Atom Text Editor?’ to how to use it, best practices, and some key differences between Atom and Sublime that can help you choose the right text editor for the job. Thanks for reading this article.If you’re wondering how to use Atom Text Editor, or maybe on a more fundamental level, what it is, we’ve provided a comprehensive guide.
#Atom editor install#
So, that’s how you install Atom text editor on Debian 10. This is how Atom looks after the theme change. I changed the UI Theme to One Light and Syntax Theme to One Light. Then, from the Themes section, change the UI Theme and Syntax Theme using the dropdown menu as marked in the screenshot below. To change the UI theme and syntax theme, go to Edit > Preferences. To install a package, click on the Install button of the package from the list.Ītom comes with beautiful light and dark UI themes and syntax themes. You can also search for a package.Īs you can see, I have searched for vue.js packages. Here, Atom will recommend some packages based on the popularity. To install a new package, go to Edit > Preferences and go to the Install section. Now, find and check the Soft Wrap checkbox.Ītom has a lot of packages that you can install to extend the functionalities of Atom. To enable word wrap, go to Edit > Preferences and then go to the Editor section. Now, go to the Editor section and you should be able to change the Font Family and Font Size from here. You can access the atom settings from Edit > Preferences. You can also change the font family and font size from the Atom settings. The same way you can decrease the font size using the shortcut +. You can increase the font size using the shortcut +. I also selected the right pane and split it vertically using Split Down. I can now work simultaneous on these two files. I’ve opened two different files from my project on these two panes. The pane is horizontally split into two sections. You can also use the shortcut + K + to split the pane in your desired direction.Īs you can see, I have split the pane using + K + or Split Right. To split a pane, go to View > Panes and select one of the marked options ( Split Up, Split Down, Split Left, Split Right) to split a pane. You can split a pane horizontally and vertically just like you do on a tiling window manager like i3. You can split an atom editor pane into as many sections as you need and view multiple source files in each of these split views. The directory/folder should be opened as an Atom project.Ītom split view feature is very useful. Now, select your project directory/folder and click on OK. To open a directory/folder as a project, go to File > Add Project Folder… or press + + A. You can also open a directory/folder as a project with Atom. Now, select a directory where you want to save the file, give the file a name and click on Save. Now, to save the file, go to File > Save or press + S. To create a new file on Atom, go to File > New File or press + N. One the Telemetry Consent tab, click on one of these buttons depending on whether you want to send usage data to GitHub for improving Atom. If you don’t want to see the Welcome window again, just uncheck the Show Welcome Guide when opening Atom checkbox and close all the opened tabs. The first time you run Atom, it will look like this. Now, you can find and start Atom from the Application Menu of Debian 10. It is the latest version of Atom at the time of this writing.
#Atom editor download#
Once the download is complete, navigate to the ~/Downloads directory as follows:Īs you can see, I am running Atom 1.39.1. Click on Save File as marked in the screenshot below. Now, your browser should prompt you to download the Atom DEB package file. deb button as marked in the screenshot below. Installing Atom Text Editor:įirst, visit the official website of Atom from your favorite web browser.
In this article, I am going to show you how to install the latest version of Atom Text Editor on Debian 10 Buster.
Atom also has a lot of packages/plugins that you can install to extend Atom and set it up the way you like. It also has very good looking color themes, One Dark and One Light. The Atom user interface is very clean and it has support for many important features such as split view, Git integration etc.
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