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# Atom

Atom is an open-source text editor developed by GitHub that is licensed under the MIT License. It is written predominantly in CoffeeScript and JavaScript and uses Node.js as its runtime environment. It is extensively extensible via use of over 3,500 available packages and 1,000 themes. It uses its own package manager for managing these packages and themes, apm.

## Installation

The following packages provide Atom:

- atom-editorAUR
- atom-editor-binAUR
- atom-editor-gitAUR
- atom-editor-betaAUR
- atom-editor-beta-binAUR
- atom from the unofficial atom repository.
  Note: Bugs regarding binary packages from the atom repository can be reported on Github. Bugs regarding Atom itself should be reported upstream.

## Packages

Its packages can be installed from within Atom itself or from the command-line using the apm command. The correct syntax of apm is:

    $ apm install package_name1 package_name2 package_name3 ...

. Several packages come preinstalled with Atom, notable packages that are not, include:

- build which enables Atom to compile source code.
- git-plus which allows one to manage git repositories from within Atom.
- markdown-writer which turns Atom into an efficient Markdown writer.
- script which enables Atom the ability to run scripts, based on file names.
- terminal-plus which adds an embedded terminal window to Atom.

Categories:

- Development
- Text editors