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Atom as CTRL script editor

What’s Atom?

• text editor, IDE
• easily hackable & extendable
• relatively lightweight
• pen source
• multi-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS)
• developed by GitHub

Atom as IDE

• atom-ide-ui: outline view, goto definition, diagnostics
• language-specific:

○ ide-cpp ○ ide-python ○ ide-java ○ …

• numerous additional plugins

○ Jupyter kernels ○ various debuggers

Developing Atom plugins - resources

• Atom’s flight manual:

○ https://flight-manual.atom.io/hacking-atom/

• GitHub blog:

○ https://blog.github.com/2016-08-19-building-your-first-atom-plugin/

• Other packages sources:

○ https://atom.io/packages

What we have so far

You can access and contribute to the packages here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/users/bastycze/projects

Language grammar

• modified c/c++ grammar
• https://github.com/atom/langu

age-c

Autocompletion

• data types
• standard CTRL functions
• scraped from help files

Syntax check

• using WCCOActrl -syntax
• goto error

What needs to be done?

• symbols parsing

○ deeper autocompletion ○ goto definition ○ good starting point: https://github.com/v3ss0n/goto