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The hackable editor

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Atom

Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on atom-shell, and based on everything we love about our favorite editors. We designed it to be deeply customizable, but still approachable using the default configuration.

Visit atom.io to learn more or visit the Atom forum.

Visit issue #3684 to learn more about the Atom 1.0 roadmap.

Installing

Mac OS X

Download the latest Atom release.

Atom will automatically update when a new release is available.

Windows

Download the latest AtomSetup.exe installer.

Atom will automatically update when a new release is available.

You can also download an atom-windows.zip file from the releases page. The .zip version will not automatically update.

Uninstalling Chocolatey Version

The recommended installation of Atom on Windows used to be using Chocolatey. This is no longer recommended now that the Atom Windows installer & auto-updater exists.

To switch from Chocolatey to the new installer:

  • Upgrade to Atom 0.155 or above by running cup Atom
  • Run cuninst Atom to uninstall the Chocolatey version of Atom
    • This will not delete any of your installed packages or Atom config files.
  • Download the latest AtomSetup.exe installer.
  • Double-click the downloaded file to install Atom

Debian Linux (Ubuntu)

Currently only a 64-bit version is available.

  1. Download atom-amd64.deb from the Atom releases page.
  2. Run sudo dpkg --install atom-amd64.deb on the downloaded package.
  3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.

The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.

Red Hat Linux (Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat)

Currently only a 64-bit version is available.

  1. Download atom.x86_64.rpm from the Atom releases page.
  2. Run sudo yum localinstall atom.x86_64.rpm on the downloaded package.
  3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.

The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.

Building

Developing

Check out the guides and the API reference.