How to configure your editor to open from the command line

Quick_Open_Editor.md

Steps to Enable Shell Command

Atom

You can try opening Atom and clicking on the Atom tab to navigate to the Install Shell Commands prompt.

Open a terminal window and type atom .

If the text editor opens, you're done! If it does not then follow the steps below:

If you have already installed Atom, and it is in your applications directory, run this command:

$ which atom

If the return of that command is:

$ which atom
/usr/local/bin/atom

Then the shell command is installed.

You can now run the command:

$ atom .

To open your text editor to the current directory location of your terminal.

If which atom returned nothing like so:

$ which atom
$

• Follow these Steps:
  • Open Atom manually.
  • Use the shortcut command + shift + p to open your Command Pallete.
  • Type: Window: Install Shell Commands into the pop-up window (this is your Command Pallete for Atom).
  • Enter your computer password when prompted.
  • Restart your terminal and test by running atom . in the terminal in the directory of your choosing.
  • This should open Atom text editor at the directory level you run the command from.

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Sublime

• If you have already installed Sublime, and it is in your Applications directory, copy and paste this command into your .bash_profile: alias subl='open -a "Sublime Text"'
• Test By running subl . in your terminal from the direcory of your choice.
• This should open Sublime text editor at the directory level you run the command from.
• If you have trouble with this, which many students have - because Sublime has not made this process easy - then follow the instructions here: Alternate Setup

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