The benefits of using Atom:
- It is free,
- Atom allows customization by installing packages/ themes,
- Atom is available on Windows, Mac and Linux,
I was used to Sublime Text for my development work. In order to make Atom my favourite one, I conducted a short research about some useful packages in Atom and somehow made it more similar to Sublime Text.
The followings are 10 essential Atom packages available at Atom Package List.
1. pigments Supports color highlighting.
https://atom.io/packages/pigments
2. color-picker Pick a color in the editor with a right-click.
https://atom.io/packages/color-picker
3. minimap While Sublime Text supports minimap by default, we need to manually install this package in Atom to have minimap.
https://atom.io/packages/minimap
4. highlight-selected This package helps to highlight repeated words. Use Ctrd+D to select the next occurance of the word.
https://atom.io/packages/highlight-selected
https://atom.io/packages/minimap-highlight-selected
5. markdown-preview-plus This package provides a real-time preview of markdown documents.
https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-plus
6. autoclose-html This package enables auto-closing html tags in HTML documents.
https://atom.io/packages/autoclose-html
7. file-icons Adds colourful file specific icons for improved visual grepping in Tree View, Fuzzy Finder and Tabs
https://atom.io/packages/file-icons
8. merge-conflicts Lets you resolve your git merge conflicts in Atom.
https://atom.io/packages/merge-conflicts
9. sublime-style-column-selection This package adds back one of my favourite functions in Sublime Text -- Column select. With this package, we can hold Alt key and mouse select columns of text.
https://atom.io/packages/sublime-style-column-selection
10. slush-poppies This is my favourite theme used in Sublime Text. Together with this theme I also changed my UI Theme settings to "One Light".
https://atom.io/packages/slush-poppies
What is your favourite Package in Atom? Leave me a comment below!
