I think the title says it all. I downloaded Atom, which comes over as a zip file containing an executable, etc. When I right-click on a text file, source code file, etc, in Windows Explorer and select Open With > Choose default program... I don't see Atom in the list of "Recommended Programs" or "Other Programs" (when I use the arrow to expand that list). If I select "Browse" and use the file explorer to navigate to the Atom executable file and select that, when I return to the "Open with" dialog, I still do not see Atom as an option. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to Windows, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate them - thanks!
5 Answers
Browsing to atom.cmd seems to work. On my computer (Windows 7), it's in C:\Users\Matthew\AppData\Local\atom\bin.
You can find the directory with environment variable %LocalAppData%. Browse to %localappdata%\atom\bin.
- Thanks for your response, mhenry1384! Unfortunately, your configuration does not seem to match mine and a full scan of my C drive did not return a result for atom.cmd.Dan Forbes– Dan Forbes2015-01-12 15:10:23 +00:00Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 15:10
mhenry1384's answer worked for me.
Perhaps some more information will help you.
Installation
You usually install Atom by downloading SetupAtom.exe from Atom.io and running it.
I chose to install Atom with Chocolatey. So after installing Chocolatey, I opened a command line with administrator priviledge and typed
choco install Atom Location of atom.cmd
That installed Atom to
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\atom\bin where <username> is my Windows user name.
There is a subfolder bin with a file named atom.cmd. Here is a screenshot.
Always open *.txt files with Atom
Then I right-clicked on a *.txt file,
- selected
Open With, - selected
Choose default program..., - clicked on the button
Browse..., - copied the path
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\atom\bin\*.*(replace<username>) into the text fieldFile name - clicked the button
Openand - selected
atom.cmdin the dialog box and - clicked the button
Openagain. - That's it.
Now, double-clicking any *.txt file opens with Atom as the default editor.
Versions
- Windows 7
- Chocolatey 0.9.9.8
- Atom 1.0.0
Instead of associating your extensions to the atom.cmd file (which doesn't show the beautiful green Atom icon), I associated them with atom.exe, on C:\Users\\AppData\Local\atom\app-\ folder. After first association, Atom app showed on the apps list for subsequent extensions.
i just installed Atom a few hours ago, this worked for me when I browsed through the computer to select a program to open associated files (html,php...)
C:\Users\"USER YOU INSTALLED ATOM ON"\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.2.0\
atom.exe is in the app-1.2.0 folder.
PS: turn on show hidden files to access the AppData folder
Using Windows 10 here. I right clicked the Atom icon on the desktop and picked properties. After that i copied the "Start in" location path. I looked over there with the windows explorer and found atom.exe so i typed this in the git bash:
git config --global core.editor "C:/Users/YOURNAMEUSER/AppData/Local/atom/app-1.7.4/atom.exe" Note: I changed all \ for / . I do not know if \ works in git bash, i just created a .bashrc at my home directory and used / there and it worked, so i assumed / will be the way to go.
