Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.
The latest version available is Atom 1.6.0 Beta 0, which has been recently released, bringing the following changes:
- Block Decorations
- Multi-pane API improvements
- Top/Bottom bars API
- Pending tabs improvements
- Pending tabs API
- Nodegit built in / Async Git Repository class #9213
- Fixes issues when open project uses submodules
- Built windows versions of PRs can no be downloaded from AppVeyor
- Several improvements to language-js
- Add the ability to move files via drag drop from the OS into the tree-view
Installation instructions:
The beta versions of Atom are not available via any repository, but for 64 bit (amd64) Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and other Ubuntu derivative systems, the deb package is available via the project’s GitHub webpage.
I prefer to use gdebi over dpkg due to the fact that it also handles dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.6.0-beta0/atom-amd64.deb
$ sudo gdebi atom-amd64.deb
Optional, to remove atom, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove atom