Although, the Atom editor is not actively maintained anymore, it is still a great editor for writing Markdown documents. Especially if your are dealing with very large documents, the Atom editor outperforms other editors like VS-Code. We still use the Atom editor for our documentation:
https://github.com/liascript/docs
Installation
To install the Atom editor together with the LiaScript-Preview plugin, follow the instructions in the following blog post:
Install Atom with LiaScript (Deprecated)
This blog entry presents a little workaround and shows how you can still use our two plugins to develop your LiaScript courses offline with the Atom editor.
To set up the Atom editor for a better writing experience, follow the instructions in the following blog post:
Setting up Atom (Deprecated)
This post will help you to set up your Atom with the appropriate plugins to speed up your development process.
Features
- Autoreload on save
- Toggle Preview
- History navigation
- Resizing
- Syncing in both directions via double-clicking
- Separate Dev-Tools
- Experimental jit-compiler
Keyboard - Shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Alt + L | Toggle preview |
| F5 | Reload preview |
| Ctrl + S | Save Markdown and update preview |
| Alt + Left | Go back in the browser history |
| Alt + Right | Go forward in the browser history |
| Ctrl + + | Zoom-in with 10% steps |
| Ctrl + - | Zoom-out with 10% steps |
| Ctrl + 0 | Reset zoom to original (100%) |
| Ctrl + R | Reset all stored settings, codes, quizzes, etc. |
| Ctrl + N | Open LiaScript in browser window |
| Ctrl + L + I | Open Dev Tools for LiaScript-webview |
Related Projects
It is recommended to install also:
A collection of short-codes for mor efficient course generation.