Does Atom provide a Macro functionality like Notepad++ has?

Question

I am thinking about switching from Notepad++ to Atom. Does Atom provide a Macro functionality like Notepad++ has?

Answer 1

Yes if you mean the Ctrl + Shift + R, Ctrl + Shift + P macro recording and play in Notepad++ (how much I love these!), then Atom does have it.

The atom-keyboard-macros does the same thing albeit with some complicated chords.

I am on v0.11.0 (Nov 2017) of the plugin and on Mac so YMMV. Things look good so far to me, however I haven't been very successful in unmapping these shortcuts and making them similar to the ones in Notepad++.

Ctrl + Shift + R - which used to toggle record and stop record in Notepad++ is handled by Ctrl + X; Ctrl + ( followed by Ctrl + X; Ctrl + ), not very efficient!

Ctrl + Shift + P is handled by Ctrl + x; e

See the shortcuts section under https://atom.io/packages/atom-keyboard-macros

Hope that helps..

Answer 2

Does Atom provide a Macro functionality?

Yes.

The atom-macros package

Makes Atom really hackable. Quickly, without writing a package...

Fast and dynamic extension of Atom's command palette. Adds all methods defined by you on this in the .atom/macros.coffee file as Atom commands:

• They can be executed using the command palette (ShiftCmdP) as Macro: <Your Method Name>, or from the menu Packages > Macros> User-defined macros.

• You can also add a shortcut in your keymaps file:

  'atom-workspace':
    'ctrl-alt-shift-O': 'macros:openBrowser'
  

Source The atom-macros package

Answer 3

At the moment there are two packages for that in Atom. One is is atom-keyboard-macros (4K downloads) which is barely usable, and another is atom-macros (1.5K downloads) which failed to even install on my system.... Obviously this is not the area which typical atom users are interested in.