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. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us at the moment to update the LiaScript packages for Atom, we hope this problem will be solved soon. On the other hand, it is now also possible to use Visual Studio Code. Download and install git from: https://git-scm.
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. If you have not installed Atom so far, check out our blog-post on Install Atom with LiaScript. It will guide you through the installation procedure for Atom and the two LiaScript plugins and tell you something about the navigation within a document. However, there exist a couple of other plugins for Atom that are very handy and simplify the writing process for Markdown and of course LiaScript
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.