Must Have Atom Editor Packages

Table of Contents

• Packages for Everyday’s Productivity
• Packages for Writing
• Packages for Writing - Markdown
• Awesome Tips about Markdown
• Packages for Developers
• Packages for Web Developers
• Other Packages

Series: Awesome Tips about Atom

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Packages for Everyday’s Productivity

• Fuzzy Finder
  
  • Select Preserve Last Search in the package’s settings
• AutoSave
  
• Select “enabled” in the package’s settings
• Tree View
  
  • Cmd+\ to toggle tree view.
• Command Palette
  • Select Preserve Last Search
  • Tune settings
    • Enable Auto Reveal: link tree view with editor
    • Enable Hide Ignored Names, Hide VSS Ignored Files
  • cmd-\ to open/close the tree view, ctrl-0 to focus it
  • a, shift-a, m, or delete to add, move or delete files and folders
  • up/down arrow keys to preview files
    • need reload the window
  • toggle focus between the tree view and the editor panes by pressing Ctrl+0
• Sort Lines
• Whitespace
  • uncheck “Ensure Single Trailing Newline” option
    • remove trailing whitespace doesn’t work for markdown file
• project-manager
• open-recent
• fuzzy-finder
• highlight-selected
• Hyperlink Hyperclick: Cmd+click to open link
  • Need also install Hyperlink
• Delete Whitelines: Option+Shift+D
• Maximize active pane
  • cmd-shift-enter to mix/max current pane
  • used together with preview package.
• last-cursor-position
  • alt– to previous cursor position
  • alt-_ to undo previous travel
    More Productivity Packages
• zentabs
  • Keep your opened tabs below a maximum limit, closing the oldest one first.
  • Temp tabs:
    • The temp tab will kind of conflict with zentabs: we don’t want to close unsaved tabs, but they are also counted, if we have too many unsaved tabs, then after a while, only unsaved tabs will be left open.
    • One approach is to use only a few (<2) temp unsaved tabs, put temp content into tmep files like tmp.txt etc.
    • Reason: (1) project find(Command+Shift+F) will not search for temp tabs; (2) temp tabs would get lost when Atom crashes (like open a big file accidentally).
• keybinding-cheatsheet
  • Ctrl+Option+/: quickly find keybindings
• Jumpy: shortcut-shift + enter
• pinned-tabs: pin tabs to save context
• bracket-matcher
  • ctrl-m to jump to the bracket matching the one adjacent to the cursor
  • ctrl-cmd-m to select all the text inside the current brackets

Packages for Writing

• Spell Check: Cmd+Shift+:
• Change Case
  • change-case:kebab/upperFirst/snake/constant
  • Shortcut from command palette: UF
  • Find all command by typing cc, CC or 'Change Case'
• title-case
  • solve the issue in change-case:title
  • Shortcut: type etc[Editor: Title Case] in command palette
• Document Outline
  • Shortcut: Ctrl-Cmd-T
  • Uncheck “Show by default” in its settings
  • Only use h4 or above for markdown

  'atom-workspace':
      'cmd-ctrl-t': 'document-outline:toggle'

• linter-write-good

Packages for Writing - Markdown

• Markdown Writer
  • Execute command Markdown Writer: Create Default keymaps to add the recommended Keymaps.
  • snippet: b(bold), i, p(bullet point: -), l(link), code, t(todo), img

  ctrl-alt-[1-5]	toggle among H1 to H5.
  cmd-’	code
  cmd-b	bold
  cmd-i	italic
  cmd-h	strike through
  shift-cmd-"	’‘’code block’’’
  - unordered list	(shift-cmd-U)
  0. ordered list	(shift-cmd-O)

• Markdown Table Editor
  • Hit tab to move to the next cell
  • Snippet: table
• markdown-preview-enhanced
  • Ctrl+Shift+M: toggle preview
  • Support: Scroll sync, automatically show and switch preview of markdown being edited
  • Support Code chunk, Presentation
  • Copy (part of) html content from the preview panel directly
  • Diagrams
    • Support PlantUML, mermaid, flow charts, sequence diagrams
  • Turn off “Open preview pane automatically when opening a markdown file” as it will steal Tree View focus.
  • Use Pandoc Parser
• markdown-preview-plus
  • Ctrl+Shift+M: toggle preview
  • Copy html: convert markdown to html and copy the output to clipboard
  • Enable “Preview Position Synchronization behavior”
  • support pandoc syntax
• atom-csv-markdown

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Awesome Tips about Markdown

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Packages for Developers

• set-syntax
• compare-files: “Compare Files: Compare”
• atom-beautify
  • brew install uncrustify
  • Beautify javascript, java, json etc
• Git-Plus
  • Add All Commit And Push
  • Useful for blog repo etc.
• escape-utils: encode/decode URLs, Base64 or escape HTML entites

More Developers Packages

• atom-runner: run javascript, python, go, bash etc directly in atom
• atom-ternjs: JavaScript code intelligence
• linter link
  • jsonlint
• vim-mode-plus
  • Settings: Start in insert mode
  • hit escape to close autocomplete popup

  'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.insert-mode.autocomplete-active':
    'escape': 'autocomplete-plus:cancel'

  • remap escape key

  <!-- Open Atom -> Keymap and add: -->
  'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.insert-mode':
    'cmd ^cmd ^ctrl': 'vim-mode-plus:activate-normal-mode'

• emmet-simplified
  • Not emmet which defines a lot of default keys and conflict with atom.
• language-protobuf

Packages for Web Developers

• pigments: Renders CSS colors in every file

Other Packages

• Advanced Open File
  • Cmd-Alt-O: used to get the directory path we want move a file to
• language-log: Log syntax highlighting and filtering
• dictionary: shortcut-Ctrl+Cmd+K
• Sublime Style Column Selection
• Atom Package Sync - Synchronize between computers using Google account