Atom Editor Shortcut Cheatsheat

Basic Usage

• cmd-shift-P: Open Command Palette
• cmd-,: Open Setting
• cmd-¥: Toggle the Tree View
• alt-shift-s: View all available snippets

File

• Save
  • cmd-s: Save
  • cmd-shift-s: Save As
  • cmd-alt-s: Save all the open files
• Open
  • cmd-p & cmd-t: Open a File in a Project
  • cmd-b: Search through only the files currently opened
• Move
  • cmd-g: Move to a specific line
  • cmd-r: Move to a symbol such as a method definition
  • cmd-shift-r: cmd-r for all symbols across your project
  • ctrl-m: Jump to the bracket matching the one adjacent to the cursor
• Selection
  • ctrl-shift-p: Select up
  • ctrl-shift-n: Select down
  • ctrl-shift-b: Select previous character
  • ctrl-shift-f: Select next character
  • ctrl-shift-e: Select to end of line
  • ctrl-shift-a: Select to first character of line
  • cmd-shift-↑: Select to top of file
  • cmd-shift-↓: Select to bottom of file
  • cmd-l: Select entire line
  • cmd-shift-w: Select current word
  • cmd-shift-l: Convert a multi-line selection into multiple cursors
  • cmd-d: Select the next word in the document that is the same as the currently selected word
  • ctrl-cmd-g: Select all words in a document that are the same as the one under the current cursor(s)
• Encoding
  • ctrl-shift-u: Toggle menu to change file encoding

Directory

• cmd-shift-o: Add Project Folder

Split Pane

• cmd-k ←: Split left
• cmd-k →: Split right
• cmd-k ↑: Split up
• cmd-k ↓: Split down

Edit Text

• Edit
  • ctrl-t: Transpose characters
  • cmd-j: Join the next line to the end of the current line
  • cmd-shift-d: Duplicate the current line
  • ctrl-cmd-up: Move the current line up
  • ctrl-cmd-down: move the current line down
  • cmd-k, cmd-u: Upper case the current word
  • cmd-k, cmd-l: Lower case the current word
• Delete
  • ctrl-shift-k: Delete current line
  • cmd-delete: Cut to end of life
  • cmd-backspace: Delete to beginning of line
• Folding
  • alt-cmd-[: Fold code block
  • alt-cmd-]: Unfold code block
  • alt-cmd-shift-{: Fold all code blocks
  • alt-cmd-shift-}: Unfold all code blocks

Git

• Git
  • cmd-alt-z: Checks out the HEAD revision of the file in the editor
• Github
  • alt-g, o: Open file on Github
  • alt-g, b: Open blame of file on Github
  • alt-g, h: Open history of file on Github
  • alt-g, c: Copy the url of the current file on Github
  • alt-g, r: Branch compare on Github

If you want to configure Atom to be your Git commit editor:

$ git config --global core.editor "atom --wait"

Markdown

• ctrl-shift-m: Preview Markdown
• img, tab: Create snippet of a Markdown-formatted img
• table, tab: Create snippet of a Markdown-formatted table