Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron, 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 or visit the Atom forum.
Follow @AtomEditor on Twitter for important announcements.
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant 1.2. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to atom@github.com.
If you want to read about using Atom or developing packages in Atom, the Atom Flight Manual is free and available online, along with ePub, PDF and mobi versions. You can find the source to the manual in atom/docs.
The API reference for developing packages is also documented on Atom.io.
Download the latest Atom release.
Atom will automatically update when a new release is available.
Download the latest AtomSetup.exe installer.
Atom will automatically update when a new release is available.
You can also download an atom-windows.zip
file from the releases page.
The .zip
version will not automatically update.
Using chocolatey? Run cinst Atom
to install
the latest version of Atom.
Currently only a 64-bit version is available.
- Download
atom-amd64.deb
from the Atom releases page. - Run
sudo dpkg --install atom-amd64.deb
on the downloaded package. - Launch Atom using the installed
atom
command.
The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.
Currently only a 64-bit version is available.
- Download
atom.x86_64.rpm
from the Atom releases page. - Run
sudo yum localinstall atom.x86_64.rpm
on the downloaded package. - Launch Atom using the installed
atom
command.
The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.
Currently only a 64-bit version is available.
- Download
atom.x86_64.rpm
from the Atom releases page. - Run
sudo dnf install atom.x86_64.rpm
on the downloaded package. - Launch Atom using the installed
atom
command.
The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.