Atom Editor + Cmder

Atom Editor is an awesome cross platform text editor:
It’s free, highly extensible, and cross-platform.

Cmder is a console emulator that gives you a powerfull,
bash-like experience on windows.

These 2 tools is what I like to use to do development work on Windows. 

After poking around, I have finally figured out how to combine them, by embedding Cmder inside Atom.

I am creating this post to document because I could find info on this anywhere. Hopefully someone will benefit from it.

  1. In your Cmder folder, create a file lebeled atom.bat:

@echo off
SET CMDER_ROOT=C:PathTocmder
“%CMDER_ROOT%vendorinit.bat”

2. Install terminal-plus or platformio-ide-terminal (the former doesn’t seem to work on Windows 10)

3. Adjust the package Settings:

Shell Override:
C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe

Auto Run Command:
“C:PathTocmderatom.bat”

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