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.

Installing

Download the latest Atom release.

Atom will automatically update when a new release is available.

Building

OS X Requirements

• OS X 10.8 or later
• node.js v0.10.x
• Command Line Tools for Xcode (run xcode-select --install to install)

git clone https://github.com/atom/atom
cd atom
script/build # Creates application at /Applications/Atom.app

Linux Requirements

• Ubuntu LTS 12.04 64-bit is the recommended platform
• OS with 64-bit architecture
• node.js v0.10.x
• npm v1.4.x
• sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev
• npm config set python /usr/bin/python2 -g to ensure that gyp uses Python 2

git clone https://github.com/atom/atom
cd atom
script/build # Creates application at /tmp/atom-build/Atom
sudo script/grunt install # Installs command to /usr/local/bin/atom
script/grunt mkdeb # Generates a .deb package at /tmp/atom-build

Windows Requirements

• Windows 7 or later
• Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Express
• node.js - 32bit v0.10.x
• Python 2.7.x
• GitHub for Windows
• Git for Windows
  • Select the option Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt when installing (Git needs to be in your PATH)
• Clone atom/atom to C:\Users\<user>\github\atom\
• Add C:\Python27;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Users\<user>\github\atom\node_modules\ to your PATH
• Open the Windows GitHub shell

cd C:\Users\<user>\github\atom
script\build

Developing

Check out the guides and the API reference.