2018-05-06-atom

Installation

Option 1: Following their official instructions.

1. Download their latest stable release here.

2. Run the following:

# Install atom
sudo dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb

# Install Atom's dependencies if they are missing
sudo apt-get -f install

Option 2: Adding the unofficial ppa

Run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

Configuration

You can easily open your settings by pressing ctrl+,. (Also found in Edit>Preferences).

Minimal setup

After you have installed atom, there are a few additional packages that you should install. You can do this by runnig the script atom-minimum.sh found in the dotfiles repository in your terminal. This will install the following packages:

• language-ini

• language-cmake

• atom-ros

• linter-pycodestyle

• linter

• linter-ui-default

• linter-clang

• intentions

• busy-signal

Other recommended packages include (there is an atom-recommended.sh script to install them):

• minimap

• highlight-selected

• minimap-highlight-selected

• minimap-git-diff

• minimap-find-and-replace

• minimap-selection

Updating your config file

Copy the contents of the config.cson file in this repository to your atom config. Assuming you cloned the dotfiles repository on your home folder:

cp -f ~/dotfiles/atom/config.cson ~/.atom/config.cson

Contributors

• Argentina Ortega - Original author