![]() There’s no search or filter function, so you’ve to scroll through all the settings by yourself and read them line by line. At first I really liked the idea of the settings UI but I started the get annoyed by it really soon. ~/.atom/config.cson), so you can easily backup and/or deploy your config file later (e.g. To my surprise, every changed setting is automatically stored in a config on the filesystem (i.e. However, Atom won’t throw CSON files at you in the first place, because Atom has a built in settings UI where you can overwrite the defaults for “ Core Settings” and “ Editor Settings“. In my opinion, they’re more readable and they “feel” a bit nicer than their counterpart. Instead of JSON files you’ll get CSON (CoffeeScript) files. There are global settings and there are package specific settings files.Ītom changed this behaviour a bit. There’s always a JSON file with defaults (will be overwritten on an update) and a JSON file for user definitions (overwrites defaults). Key bindings, mouse settings and general settings – all are handled in JSON files. So I started to have a look at the settings.įor those who doesn’t know Sublime Text: SublimeText has no graphical settings window or alike, because it’s all handled in JSON files. However, I didn’t want to play around with all the default settings and I wanted to customise my editor to match my coding style and my behaviour. Well done Atom, I already feel really comfy and this makes switching from Sublime Text to Atom really easy. For example Ctrl-D, Ctrl-Cmd- or or Shift-Cmd-P. There are a lot of familiar key bindings well known from Sublime Text. If you’re familiar with Sublime Text then you’ll find yourself smiling pretty fast. To be honest, it looks pretty awesome – YAY! Atom clearly scores with it’s first impressions of the look and feel, especially with the available 3rd-party themes. With the Seti UI theme and the Monokai Seti syntax theme I’m quite happy. There’s also a seti-syntax theme, but I didn’t like the colors so eventually I switched to the Monokai Seti syntax theme. I already knew exactly which theme I’m interested in, because I’ve a S ublimeText port of it as well – the seti-ui dark colored UI theme. I really like the default theme of Atom. There’s nothing like a dark skin, especially if you’re used to work at night and in dark environments – most nerds love dark rooms for coding □ Though, I didn’t want to stick with the default theme / skin and therefore I had to find an alternative. The look and feel of Atom changed quite a bit. So this is my second time using Atom as my daily development editor. Look and FeelĪs mentioned before, I had a look at Atom over a year ago and I never used again since. When I wrote this blog post I was testing the latest stable Atom (version 1.8) on Mac OS X. You’ll browse to the Atom’s website, hit the download button, unpack the image, copy Atom to the applications folder and start it. Installing Atom is quite simple and straight forward. I always thought it was a nice editor, but not as mature as Sublime Text. I used to play around with Atom one year ago but I wasn’t very pleased then. However, I’m also a techie guy and I don’t want to miss anything special and awesome out there and therefore I’ve to give Atom another chance. So I’m a bit biased because I’m completely happy with my current choice of editor and I’m not ready to change my complete behaviour just because of a new trending editor. I just load my config and I’m ready to work as productive as possible. If you want to stick a label on me then it might be something between “ Pro User” and “ In Love With Sublime Text“. ![]() I used to work with Sublime Text for ages and my cerebellum is perfectly trained for it. This is my story about switching from Sublime Text to Atom for a couple of days. I’m also on Twitter and I saw the uprising of GitHub’s Atom lately, so I decided to give it a chance. ![]() ![]() Hello, my name’s Domi and I’m a extensive Sublime Text abuser.
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