How to Open a Terminal from Within Atom?
I'm Currently Working with Atom, and Sometimes I Want to Open a Terminal on the Directory My Working File Is. to Do This, I Usually Have to Open the Folder in...
I'm currently working with Atom, and sometimes I want to open a terminal on the directory my working file is. To do this, I usually have to open the folder in nautilus (right clicking the file in atom) and then I open a terminal on that directory from nautilus (right click).
I wonder if there is a way to open the terminal in the file directory without having to open nautilus first.
4 Answers
I use the terminal-plus package to open my terminal from within the Atom text editor. You can see the package in action in this short video clip I made here: .
After installing the package, to start the terminal within Atom you can use the GUI or use cmd-shift-t on Mac or ctrl-shift-t on Windows/Linux to bring up a terminal in the editor. To spawn another terminal session you repeat the previous command.
An option could be Platformio IDE Terminal (terminal package for Atom).
Some ot their features are:
- Terminal Naming
- Color Coding
- Sorting
- Insert selected text
There are a lot of terminal packages you can use in Atom. The packages which I recommend are :-
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