Hello, I have been using atom 1.63.0_dev for months and it is now broken.
I have removed it. I am noticing there is no atom package in Manjaro packages.
The good thing of atom is that it allows to edit remote files with SCP/SFTP.
I have tried to install this:
$ yay -S atom-community-git
it fails with the following error:
> atom@1.63.0-dev preinstall /home/marco/.cache/yay/atom-community-git/src/atom
> node -e 'process.exit(0)'
npm ERR! code E500
npm ERR! 500 Internal Server Error - GET https://www.atom.io/api/packages/language-python/versions/0.53.6/tarball
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/marco/.atom/.apm/_logs/2022-10-12T17_21_34_679Z-debug.log
Error: Command failed: /home/marco/.cache/yay/atom-community-git/src/atom/apm/node_modules/atom-package-manager/bin/apm install
at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:828:11)
at Object.execFileSync (node:child_process:863:15)
at module.exports (/home/marco/.cache/yay/atom-community-git/src/atom/script/lib/run-apm-install.js:12:16)
at bootstrap (/home/marco/.cache/yay/atom-community-git/src/atom/script/bootstrap.js:56:3)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
I have read that Manjaro is supposed to be the best Linux distribution for developers. So what is the best editor to use?
There is none, even if you limit the scope to Manjaro. Editor choice is a personal preference, I personally use Sublime Text and I consider it as the best FOR ME. My colleagues prefer VSCode instead. We all are just as productive.
Just install this if you don’t want to mess up with setting up SSH and so on. I personally don’t use that package, instead I map my remote drive to a local storage and edit there.
Nope. Or rather, it’s free to use, but if you don’t have a paid-up license, then it reminds you of that fact and tries to get you to purchase a license every few startups. See
Or just Kate for everything. Don’t forget to install and configure the various plugins, though. AFAIR it comes with nothing checked by default, making it simply like a plain text editor. But yea, either community/code or aur/visual-studio-code-bin are massively more developed because they have user contributed repositories for plugins, just like Sublime Text.
While Sublime Text is available for free - you can continue to use it without any limitations what so ever. You will a nag box now and then to remind you of your freebie status.
To rid yourself of the nags cough up $99 and you get to use it indefinately and you get then next 3 years of improvements with that price.
Furthermore you can use the license for all your computers - no moving license around - just copy paste the license code.
My personal opinion after using Sublime Text since v2 and lately the git client - they are totally sublime and the combo of sublime-merge and sublime-text is a win-win.
That depends on you definition of good - take your pick
Most probably not a suiting option for you, but I’d still like to mention Medit. Its features include
two pane layout
user defined commands which can be accessed via configurable key bindings
integrated terminal
rudimentary ctags support (just an alphabetically sorted list of defined functions and variables in a side bar)
list of open files and file chooser, in sidebars as well
configurable interface (floating or fixed positioning for sidebars and other elements)
standard stuff is also there of course (syntax highlighting in different color themes, also highlighting of missing brackets, automatic indentation etc
But it has no support for editing remote files or git integration, it’s just an editor, not an IDE.