This document discusses the text editor Atom. It provides an overview of Atom, describing it as a customizable, free and open-source, cross-platform text editor with a built-in package manager. The document reviews literature on Atom, noting its many added features compared to other editors. Details are given on installing Atom and its cross-platform editing capabilities. Advantages include being free, having a good interface and color coding, while disadvantages include high startup time and occasional crashing. Atom is compared to Visual Studio and Sublime Text. The conclusion is that Atom has potential to be the best editor if it addresses shortcomings like startup time.

1. ATOM
A Hackable Text Editor
Presented by : Prakash Rajesh
Zodge
Guided by : Prof. S. M. Salve
Roll no. : B-41

2. What is ATOM?
❖ Customizable text-editor
❖ Free and open-source
❖ Cross-platform
❖ Build-in package manager

3. Literature survey
❖ K Sumangali, Lokesh Borra and Amol Suraj Mishra
-given comprehensive review on the open source text-editor ATOM in 2017
➢ Many added features like Developers tool, Integrated packages, etc.
➢ Easy to customize the UI
➢ It cannot handle bigger files than MB’s

4. Detailed
❖ How to install
➢ Go to https://atom.io
➢ Click the Download & Install it
❖ Cross platform editing, smart autocompletion, multiple panels, file browse
system, find and replace, etc

5. Drag related

6. Overview

7. Advantages
❖ Free & Open source
❖ Good looking interface
❖ Color coded syntax
Disadvantages
❖ High start-up time
❖ Sometimes ATOM closed suddenly and do not open again

8. | Atom |
Visual Studio | Sublime Text
—-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Released on | June, 2015 | April, 2015 |
January, 2008
Developer | GitHub | Microsoft |
Jon Skinner
Inbuilt Git | Yes | Yes
| No
Written In | Electron | Electron |
C++, Python
(CoffeeScript/ | (HTML/CSS/
Comparative

9. Conclusion
❖ Atom has got many added features which are not available in other text editors
like Atom has the Developer Tools and Integrated Package Manager. I conclude
that atom has the potential to become the best editor of this world if it manages
to overcome it shortcomings.

10. References
❖ Atom (text editor) 2017 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor).
❖ Michael C J 2016 Best of Atom: Features, Plugins, Acting Like Sublime Text —
https://scotch.io/bar-talk/best-of-atom-features-plugins-acting-like-sublime-text
❖ Bottos B A and Kintala C M R 2016 Generation of syntax-directed editors with atom-
text editor- https://discuss.atom.io/t/syntax-highlighting-punctuation/16254
❖ Srivastava A and Thiagarajan J 2002 Effectively prioritizing tests in development
environment. In ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 27 97-106 ACM