To be clear this file was NOT imported from Google Drive, instead it was downloaded directly.
Use %pwd to show the current directory, %cd to switch directories, and !ls to list directories. (Or, use the file browser GUI on the left hand side.)
Here's an example:
On GitHub I can view symlinks as text - they are just a path to the target.
However, if I edit a symlink in Atom it opens the file that the symlink points to. This is reasonable behaviour but not what I am trying to do.
Can I edit them in a similar way using Atom on my local machine?
If now, is there another text editor that can?
You can't change a symbolic link's target by editing the symlink file.
There are cases where the target of a symlink is stored in the symlink file, but that is not usually the case. For most target paths, the target is stored in the inode data directly.
Then there are symlink-like things various filesystems have implemented, such as macOS aliases, or Windows NTFS which has symlinks but they are not exactly the same as Unix/POSIX symlinks.
To manage symlinks you should be using the tools your OS provides, such as the ln command.
That said, I'm not aware of any packages for Atom which offer an in-editor method of managing symlinks. The tree-view package does not seem to offer it.
Is it possible to copy Atom from one Mac to another, including all installed packages, settings etc?
There are several ways to synchronize your settings and packages between Atom installations:
Git: Create a public or private Git repo and store the contents of your local ~/.atom folder in there. Ignore the following files/directories in a .gitignore file:
storage
compile-cache
dev
.npm
.node-gyp
Use a package like sync-settings. This will store your configuration in a GitHub Gist.
Dropbox (or similar): Move your ~/.atom folder to your Dropbox folder and then symlink it from there to its original location. This has the downside of syncing everything in ~/.atom, even the things you could ignore.
Use stars to select your favorite packages. On the Atom web site, create an account and mark your favorite packages with stars. Then use apm stars --install to install all starred packages on any machine. Downside: This only works for packages, not for settings.
More details:
https://discuss.atom.io/t/syncing-settings-packages-between-machines/1385
As a user who uses a dotfile management system such as RCM, I prefer independent config files.
For now, Atom doesn't officially provide a packages.cson file to manage plugins, but as the post Syncing settings & packages between machines mentioned, there is a plugin called package-sync that will generate a packages.cson file for us.
So with the help of package-sync, now I can just sync those mininal config files to have my Atom settings and packages consistent across multiple machines.
This is how to do it (Use ubuntu as an example):
Install Atom, and install package-sync through Edit-->Preferences-->Install as the screen shot shows:
Open your command pallete and type: Create Package List and there will be a packages.cson file under your ~/.atom folder.
Edit the gitignore file:
$ gedit ~/.atom/.gitignore
Make sure the content is:
blob-store
compile-cache
dev
storage
.node-gyp
.npm
.apm
packages/
atom-shell/
This is a screenshot of the .gitignore file:
This makes sure the content downloaded by Atom from the Internet will not get synced to your dotfiles repo.
Move the .atom folder to the dotfile repo:
$ mv ~/.atom ~/dotfiles/tag-atom/atom
Relink the folder:
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/tag-atom/atom ~/.atom
Or if you have rcm installed:
$ rcup
Now go to another machine, and install Atom and package sync. Update your dotfiles repo, and then Open your Atom command pallete and type: sync
Now your Atom settings will get synced and integrated with the RCM dotilfe management system.
This is the files in my ~/.atom folder that get synced:
I recently built a package that syncs automatically your Atom settings and packages across multiple computers. A little bit like the bookmark synchronization mechanism in Google Chrome. It's called atom-package-sync. Maybe it could fit your needs.
You can sync your packages via package-list.txt file and a simple shell script.
Create the package-list.txt file
apm list --installed --bare > package-list.txt
Install missing packages on another host
BASEDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
INSTALLEd_PKGS=$(apm list --installed --bare)
for PKG in $(cut -f1 -d# $BASEDIR/package-list.txt); do
grep -q $PKG <<< $INSTALLEd_PKGS || apm install $PKG
done
The .atom folder contains the packages folder, which can be rather huge. Unfortunately OneDrive doesn't allow you to exclude folders, so I went with a git option.
I excluded the packages from git and instead I committed a text file containing my packages (my-packages.txt).
To re-install packages I need to run: apm install --packages-file my-packages.txt.
To generate the my-packages.txt, I need something like this on a Bash shell: ls packages | xargs -n 1 echo | cut -d/ -f1 > my-packages.txt
I sync my Atom settings between Windows, macOS, and Linux machines using Resilio Sync Home. It is free and the files are not saved on the "cloud" (like Dropbox or Gists), but it requires that, at least, two machines are online in order to sync the current settings.
I do not want to sync caches, installation specific settings, et al., I update the .sync/IgnoreList file that is created in the synced directory (i.e., the ~/.atom directory). Unfortunately, you will have to update this on each machine that you sync (ironically, the IgnoreList file is not synced). By default, the file specifies various temporary files to be omitted from syncing, so you'll need to add the following:
## Atom-specific
/packages/node-debugger/debugger.log
\packages\node-debugger\debugger.log
/.apm
\.apm
/.node-gyp
\.node-gyp
/.npm
\.npm
/blob-store
\blob-store
/compile-cache
\compile-cache
/dev
\dev
/recovery
\recovery
/split-diff
\split-diff
/storage
\storage
Some of the omitted directories are package-specific (e.g., split-diff). Because Windows has different path delimiters than other platforms, I need to specify both(!!)
Install Resilio Sync Home on your first machine
Add the .atom directory to Resilio to be synced.
Update its IgnoreList file, as shown above. Save this file for the other machines you want to sync with.
Send a Resilio "Read & Write" link of that folder to the other machines you want to sync with or copy the "Read & Write" key to be used on the other machines. To do this, in Resilio's folder view, click on the .atom folder's menu (vertical dots on the right edge) and select "Copy Read & Write key". Save it for later.
Then on your other machines,
Install Resilio Sync Home
Create .atom/.sync
Copy the IgnoreList from your first machine to that directory
Add the .atom directory to be synced with the other machine. You should add the folder using "Enter key or link," then enter the key you copyed, above.
Wait until syncing is done before opening Atom. The first time will may take a few minutes.
Now I don't need to go around installing/removing packages on every machine, separately!
FYI: Changes to files and directories are saved in .sync/Archive, for some period of time, if you should need to recover them.
Here's the deal, I've compiled a few classes into a jar file with a manifest pointing to the main-class. It works just fine on my computer.
I transferred the jar file onto another computer which I'm supposed to give a demonstration tomorrow on and well, here's where things went downhill.
Winrar was not installed, so I installed it in order to extract the folder I had my jar file in. I unknowingly associated winrar with jars which I fixed by changing the default open program with jre7/bin/java.exe. However, the jar file does not self-execute as it did previously. I'm thinking something's up with the registry.
Stackoverflow, what do you think?
I guess a simple solution would be reinstalling the JRE.
You need to reset file association for ".jar" files, jar files are not executed by "jre7/bin/java.exe". so what you should have done before choosing default program to "jre7/bin/java.exe" was to simply uninstall WinRAR or remove its association from the WinRAR settings. So now, open start menu, search and open regedit.exe goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.jar and delete every value excluding "(Default)" who's value data should be "jarfile". the reinstall jre and reboot pc . THAT'S YOUR SOLUTION.
my boss is in vacation and I would really like to compile the FFTW library from http://www.fftw.org/ on a Mac OS X . The problem is, I don't have root access to install the files in the root directories with make install. Is there any possibility to install them local just for my user account? .
I read this http://www.princeton.edu/~ngrube/notes.html#fftw ..
I get a folder with a bin, lib, include and share subfolder in my home directory. In the include folder is the fftw3.h file and in the lib folder the libfftw3.a file. Is there a possibility to use the fftw3.h in my project? When I run it and want to link the libfftw3.a to my project it says :
library not found for -llibfftw3.a
I'm using Eclipse CDT for C/C++
edit:
I just saw, that when I use the make install for installing on some local path in my user directory I get some lines:
ranlib: file: #path#/FFTWLIB/lib/libfftw3.a(debug.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: #path#FFTWLIB/lib/libfftw3.a(altivec.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: #path#FFTWLIB/lib/libfftw3.a(avx.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: #path#FFTWLIB/lib/libfftw3.a(sse2.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: #path#FFTWLIB/lib/libfftw3.a(taint.o) has no symbols
I think they are the problem. Someone has a solution?
Yes, you just need to make sure that the lib directory is in the linker path. You can set this somewhere in the Eclipse project settings.