Do you ❤️ Atom? What's not to love!? It treats a folder like a project, shows project files in the sidebar, has great plugin support and looks just great. It also has great shortcut key support. Here you will find a list of shortcut keys I use often in Atom and some of its packages.

Atom plugins and shortcuts (macOS) you cannot live without.

Atom Shortcuts

Action Shortcut keys
Move line up/down ⌃ + ⌘ + ↑/↓
Indent line (⇢) ⌘ + ]
Outdent line (⇠) ⌘ + [
Delete line ⌃ + ⇧ + k
Duplicate line ⌘ + ⇧ + d
Toggle comment line(s) ⌘ + /
Select line ⌘ + l
Move cursor between open and closing bracket ⌃ + m
New line below ⌘ + ↵
New line above ⌘ + ⇧ + ↵
Goto next search occurrence ⌘ + g
Move to previous/next word ⌥ + ←/→
Select word under cursor.
If word is selected, add next occurrence to selection
⌘ + d
Toggle Markdown preview ⌃ + ⇧ + m

In the sidebar

Select an item in the sidebar to use these shortcut keys.

Action Shortcut keys
Create new file (also creates subdirectories if needed: a/b/c.txt) a
Create new folder (also creates subdirectories if needed: a/b/c) ⇧ + a
Duplicate d

Atom Shortcuts for plugins

Action Shortcut keys Plugin
Format code ⌃ + ⌥ + b atom-beautify
Host project in a webserver on port 3000.
Open browser at 127.0.0.1:3000
⌃ + ⌥ + l atom-live-server
Copy selected selected text as RFT.
(to paste in keynote or powerpoint)
⌥ + r copy-as-rtf
Execute code ⌘ + i atom-script
Written by Loek van den Ouweland on 2019-03-18.
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