atomic-emacs

Atomic Emacs

Emacs keybindings for Atom.

Installation

On the command line:

• apm install atomic-emacs

Or in Atom:

• In Preferences, click the Install tab.
• Type atomic-emacs in the search box, and click the Packages button.
• Click Install on the atomic-emacs package.

There's no need to restart Atom.

Commands

Navigation

'ctrl-b': 'atomic-emacs:backward-char'
'left': 'atomic-emacs:backward-char'
'ctrl-f': 'atomic-emacs:forward-char'
'right': 'atomic-emacs:forward-char'
'alt-b': 'atomic-emacs:backward-word'
'alt-left': 'atomic-emacs:backward-word'
'alt-f': 'atomic-emacs:forward-word'
'alt-right': 'atomic-emacs:forward-word'
'ctrl-alt-b': 'atomic-emacs:backward-sexp'
'ctrl-alt-f': 'atomic-emacs:forward-sexp'
'ctrl-alt-p': 'atomic-emacs:backward-list'
'ctrl-alt-n': 'atomic-emacs:forward-list'
'alt-{': 'atomic-emacs:backward-paragraph'
'alt-}': 'atomic-emacs:forward-paragraph'
'alt-m': 'atomic-emacs:back-to-indentation'
'ctrl-a': 'editor:move-to-beginning-of-line'
'alt-<': 'core:move-to-top'
'alt->': 'core:move-to-bottom'

Killing & Yanking

'alt-backspace': 'atomic-emacs:backward-kill-word'
'alt-delete': 'atomic-emacs:backward-kill-word'
'alt-d': 'atomic-emacs:kill-word'
'ctrl-k': 'atomic-emacs:kill-line'
'ctrl-w': 'atomic-emacs:kill-region'
'alt-w': 'atomic-emacs:copy-region-as-kill'
'ctrl-alt-w': 'atomic-emacs:append-next-kill'
'ctrl-y': 'atomic-emacs:yank'
'alt-y': 'atomic-emacs:yank-pop'
'alt-shift-y': 'atomic-emacs:yank-shift'

Note that Atomic Emacs does not (yet) support prefix arguments, so to rotate the
kill ring forward, use yank-shift (equivalent to yank-pop in Emacs with a
prefix argument of -1).

Editing

'alt-\\': 'atomic-emacs:delete-horizontal-space'
'alt-^': 'atomic-emacs:delete-indentation'
'ctrl-o': 'atomic-emacs:open-line'
'alt-space': 'atomic-emacs:just-one-space'
'ctrl-x ctrl-o': 'atomic-emacs:delete-blank-lines'
'ctrl-t': 'atomic-emacs:transpose-chars'
'alt-t': 'atomic-emacs:transpose-words'
'ctrl-alt-t': 'atomic-emacs:transpose-sexps'
'ctrl-x ctrl-t': 'atomic-emacs:transpose-lines'
'ctrl-x ctrl-l': 'atomic-emacs:downcase-word-or-region'
'alt-l': 'atomic-emacs:downcase-word-or-region'
'ctrl-x ctrl-u': 'atomic-emacs:upcase-word-or-region'
'alt-u': 'atomic-emacs:upcase-word-or-region'
'alt-c': 'atomic-emacs:capitalize-word-or-region'
'ctrl-j': 'editor:newline'
'ctrl-m': 'editor:newline'
'ctrl-/': 'core:undo'
'ctrl-_': 'core:undo'
'ctrl-x u': 'core:undo'
'alt-/': 'atomic-emacs:dabbrev-expand'
'alt-?': 'atomic-emacs:dabbrev-previous'
'alt-q': 'autoflow:reflow-selection'
'alt-;': 'editor:toggle-line-comments'
'ctrl-alt-\\' : 'editor:auto-indent'

Searching

'ctrl-s': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-forward'
'ctrl-r': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-backward'

While searching:

'enter': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-exit'
'ctrl-m': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-exit'
'escape': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-cancel'
'ctrl-g': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-cancel'
'ctrl-s': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-repeat-forward'
'ctrl-r': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-repeat-backward'
'alt-s c': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-toggle-case-fold'
'alt-c': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-toggle-case-fold'
'alt-s r': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-toggle-regexp'
'alt-r': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-toggle-regexp'
'ctrl-w': 'atomic-emacs:isearch-yank-word-or-character'

Marking & Selecting

'ctrl-space': 'atomic-emacs:set-mark'
'ctrl-alt-space': 'atomic-emacs:mark-sexp'
'ctrl-x h': 'atomic-emacs:mark-whole-buffer'
'ctrl-x ctrl-x': 'atomic-emacs:exchange-point-and-mark'

UI

'ctrl-g': 'core:cancel'
'ctrl-x ctrl-s': 'core:save'
'ctrl-x ctrl-w': 'core:save-as'
'alt-x': 'command-palette:toggle'
'alt-.': 'symbols-view:go-to-declaration'
'ctrl-x ctrl-c': 'application:quit'
'ctrl-x ctrl-f': 'atomic-emacs:find-file'
'ctrl-x b': 'fuzzy-finder:toggle-buffer-finder'
'ctrl-x k': 'core:close'
'ctrl-x 0': 'pane:close'
'ctrl-x 1': 'atomic-emacs:close-other-panes'
'ctrl-x 2': 'pane:split-down'
'ctrl-x 3': 'pane:split-right'
'ctrl-x o': 'window:focus-next-pane'

Other Packages

For a more Emacs-like version of find-file, install
advanced-open-file. Atomic
Emacs will use that package if it exists by default instead of Atom's
fuzzy-finder. This may be disabled in settings, but note that fuzzy-finder
cannot create new files.

Extending Atomic Emacs

Atomic Emacs exposes its core classes via a consumable service. For example,
here's how you could extend it to add subword navigation:

~/.atom/init.coffee:

atom.workspace.packageManager.serviceHub.consume "atomic-emacs", "^0.13.0", (service) ->
  window.emacs = service

forwardSubword = (event) ->
  emacsEditor = emacs.getEditor(event)
  emacsEditor.moveEmacsCursors (emacsCursor) ->
    emacsCursor.skipNonWordCharactersForward()
    emacsCursor.cursor.moveToNextSubwordBoundary()

backwardSubword = (event) ->
  emacsEditor = emacs.getEditor(event)
  emacsEditor.moveEmacsCursors (emacsCursor) ->
    emacsCursor.skipNonWordCharactersBackward()
    emacsCursor.cursor.moveToPreviousSubwordBoundary()

atom.commands.add 'atom-text-editor', 'me:forward-subword', (event) -> forwardSubword(event)
atom.commands.add 'atom-text-editor', 'me:backward-subword', (event) -> backwardSubword(event)

~/.atom/keymap.cson:

'atom-text-editor':
  'ctrl-left': 'me:backward-subword'
  'ctrl-right': 'me:forward-subword'

If you're writing an extension package, consume the service as described in the
Atom Flight Manual.

Documentation for the Atomic Emacs core classes is sparse, but a common starting
point is to get the EmacsEditor for the event as above. The EmacsEditor and
EmacsCursor classes in the Atomic Emacs source should be fairly easy to follow.

Something missing?

Feel free to suggest features on the Github issue tracker, or better yet, send a
pull request!

Windows Note

Some common Emacs keystrokes conflict with the default key bindings on Atom for
Windows in unexpected ways. For example, ctrl-k (kill-line on emacs) is a
prefix key for a set of pane management commands in Atom for Windows. The result
is that after pressing ctrl-k, Atom will wait for 2 seconds to determine if it
should treat this as a full command, or the beginning of another command, making
kill-line feel "slow".

You can of course disable this by disabling the all built-in key bindings that
start with ctrl-k in your keymaps.config file. You can also do this a little
easier with the disable-keybindings package.

Contributing

• Bug reports
• Source
• Patches: Fork on Github, send pull request.
• Include tests where practical.
• Leave the version alone, or bump it in a separate commit.