Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.
The latest version available is Atom 1.2.0 Beta, which has been recently released, bringing the following changes:
- Soft-wrapping now works correctly with a larger variety of non-Latin characters, including CJK.
- Atom no longer attempts to save unmodified files when the “Save All” command is dispatched.
- Atom is now based on Electron 0.34.0.
- Test runners can now be customized on a per-package basis. See the documentation for more information.
Installation instructions:
Atom is available for Fedora 22, Fedora 21 and CentOS 7 systems via the COPR repositories, so installing it on your system should not cause many problems. Unfortunately, Atom is available only for 64 bit (x86_64) systems.
Both Yum (default package manager till Fedora 22) and DNF (the new package manager of Fedora 22) have some pluging that permit the users to easily add and enable COPR repositories to their systems.
How to install Atomon on 64 bit Fedora 22 systems:
$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf copr enable helber/atom
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo dnf install atom
Optional, to remove atom, do:
$ sudo dnf remove atom
How to install Atom on 64 bit Fedora 21 and CentOS 7 systems:
$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-copr
$ sudo yum copr enable helber/atom
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install atom
Optional, to remove atom, do:
$ sudo yum remove atom
