Atom

Say you get Atom and you use it as it is. You will like that straight out of the box, this good looking editor has quite a lot to offer. The functionality you would expect to get from a modern text editor – like support for multiple programming languages, code folding, and fuzzy finder – they’re all covered by Atom.

But if you don’t like things as they are, if you want to tinker with them, then you’re going to like that Atom is a highly customizable text editor. As the developer explained, Atom is “hackable to the core.” You can customize Atom to do anything you want.

Atom is available as a prebuilt version for Microsoft’s Windows operating system; Windows 7 and Windows 8 to be more precise. The developer recommends you to install Atom via Chocolatey.
Atom is also available as a prebuilt version for Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Atom is open source software. You can get the source and use it to build Atom versions for Windows, OS X, or Linux.

Atom’s interface features tabs and panes. Atom’s interface provides support for themes – UI themes and syntax themes. Several themes are available right out of the box. More are available for download from the web. Speaking about downloading data from the web, you can also get packages for Atom. Created by Atom users, these packages give the text editor extra bits of functionality. You can use packages to enhance and customize the functionality you get from the Atom text editor.

Atom is free and open source software. You have all the time in the world to uncover the functionality it offers right out of the box. You have all the time in the world to uncover how you can customize this great text editor.

Very useful functionality and tons of customization means – that’s what you get from the properly good Atom text editor.