Essential Plugins for Atom

Updated: See my new list of plugins for Atom v1.0 here.

A quick list of handy plugins I’ve found for the Atom text editor.

• chemoish/atom-valign - ctrl-\ to vertically align assignments. You can configure the hotkey in keymap.cson:

    '.editor':
        'ctrl-cmd-a': 'vertical-align:align.
  

• thomaslindstrom/color-picker
  • shift-cmd-c to edit HTML colors.
• AtomLinter/Linter and AtomLinter/linter-coffeelint - Highlight problems in coffee-script. Add a coffeelint.json file to your project to change settings.
• atom/markdown-preview - ctrl-shift-m to show markdown preview.
• kevinsawicki/monokai - The monokai color theme (should be familiar if you’re a Sublime user.)
• saschagehlich/autocomplete-plus - Autocomplete while you type.

At the moment, you should also set editor.normalizeIndentOnPaste to false if you don’t want Atom to remove your indent.