April 25, 2014 kevinsawicki
Looking to get your Atom package building on CI so that pull requests are updated automatically when tests pass or fail?
Read more March 31, 2014 nathansobo
If you’ve been watching the Atom organization closely on GitHub, you may have noticed that we’ve open-sourced Atom’s keymap module. In this post, we’ll start with a brief overview of how Atom’s keymap works, then explore recent changes that give it better support for for ambiguous multi-keystroke bindings and vim-mode.
Read more March 26, 2014 kevinsawicki
Back in Atom’s early days, the decision was made to support TextMate grammars for syntax highlighting. There were over 100 existing languages supported under the TextMate org. and Oniguruma regular expressions provided great power for complex pattern matching.
Read more March 13, 2014 kevinsawicki
Have you ever used Atom and wondered what all the colors in the gutter, tree view, and status bar mean?
Read more March 10, 2014 thedaniel
Wow! In only a week and a half, the Atom community has really grown. Discussion on the forum is lively, and there’s a real sense that everyone is happy to help new people out. There’s even ‘a community-built, community-driven guide to hacking on the Atom editor’ in the works. Your exploration and experimentation has also brought the total package count to over 500, and we’re still in a closed beta! This is incredible. Here’s a few of those 500+ packages that are interesting:
Read more March 4, 2014 probablycorey
It hasn’t even been a week and we’ve already seen a lot of amazing packages emerge from the Atom community! Some are super useful and others are… well, useful if you want to blow up your code.
Read more March 3, 2014 kevinsawicki
The journey to completely customizing Atom starts with a single step. Today, I’ll show you how to take that first step with a simple tweak to your Atom stylesheet to make hyperlinks in code stand out.
Read more February 26, 2014 nathansobo
The web is not without its faults, but two decades of development has forged it into an incredibly malleable and powerful platform. So when we set out to write a text editor that we ourselves would want to extend, web technology was the obvious choice. But first, we had to free it from its chains.
Read more February 26, 2014 nathansobo