Usually, I’m using vim almost for everything excepting big Python projects (which happen rarely last time). In such cases, I have PyCharm, which is also used for AWS CloudFormation templates with the aws-cloudformation plugin.
For the Go lang programmes I have used vim with the vim-go plugin but on last weekend I tried the Atom editor and will try to use it now.
So in this post – a few useful Atom plugins to make work easier.
This list isn’t full so please feel free to suggest other plugins in comments.
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Installing Atom
AS usually on Linux – absolutely simple.
On Arch can be installed using the pacman:
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$ sudo pacman -S atom
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Plugins
You can install a plugin with Atom UI from the Edit > Preferences > Packages, or from a console with the atm install command:
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$ apm install --help
Usage: apm install [<package_name>...]
apm install <package_name>@<package_version>
apm install <git_remote>
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highlight-selected
Will highlight the selected variable or function name in a whole code.
Install:
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$ apm install highlight-selected Installing highlight-selected to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Restart Atom and check:
file-icons
Will add an icon near each file depending on its language.
Install:
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$ apm install file-icons Installing file-icons to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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open-recent
Out from the box Atom is able to open recent for projects only.
open-recent adds the facility to open last directories/files as well:
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$ apm install open-recent Installing open-recent to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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platformio-ide-terminal
Adds a console directly to the editor:
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$ apm install platformio-ide-terminal Installing platformio-ide-terminal to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Toggle it with the Ctrl+`:
linter
Well… A liner 🙂
Will check your code and displays warnings:
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$ apm install linter Installing linter to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Its dependencies:
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$ apm install linter-ui-default intentions busy-signal Installing linter-ui-default to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓ Installing intentions to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓ Installing busy-signal to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Then for each language add its own linter.
For C/С++ etc the linter-clang can be used:
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$ apm install linter-clang Installing linter-clang to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Check:
For the Go lang – linter-golinter:
go-plus
Add documentation, more precise autocomplete using gocode, etc:
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$ apm install go-plus Installing go-plus to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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Optional dependencies:
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$ apm install go-debug go-signature-statusbar atom-ide-ui Installing go-debug to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓ Installing go-signature-statusbar to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓ Installing atom-ide-ui to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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And an example:
minimap
Displays a “map” of a currently opened file:
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$ apm install Minimap Installing Minimap to /home/setevoy/.atom/packages ✓
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In general – that’s all for now.
