We will cover customizing a theme in Style Tweaks and creating your own theme in Creating a Theme.

There are also dozens of themes on that you can choose from if you want something different. To change the syntax or UI theme, simply pick something different in the appropriate dropdown list.

The UI themes control the style of UI elements like the tabs and the tree view, while the syntax themes control the syntax highlighting of text you load into the editor.

You can modify the active theme by clicking on the Themes tab in the sidebar of the Settings View, or you can install new themes by clicking the Install tab. Atom ships with 4 different UI themes, dark and light variants of the Atom and One theme, as well as 8 different syntax themes. The Settings View also lets you change the themes for Atom.

Search for settings-view:open in the Command Palette.

Use the Atom > Preferences File > Settings Edit > Preferences menu item in the menu bar.

You can also use this screen to install new packages and themes, which we'll cover in Atom Packages. This includes things like changing the theme, specifying how to handle wrapping, font settings, tab size, scroll speed and much more. Settings and PreferencesĪtom has a number of settings and preferences you can modify in the Settings View. This is great because it means you can guess your way to doing interesting things while also learning the shortcut key strokes for doing it.įor the rest of the book, we will try to be clear as to the text you can search for in the Command Palette in addition to the keybinding for different commands. Not only can you see and quickly search through thousands of possible commands, but you can also see if there is a keybinding associated with it. Instead of clicking around all the application menus to look for something, you can press Cmd+Shift+P Ctrl+Shift+P and search for the command. This search-driven menu can do just about any major task that is possible in Atom. If you have customized your Atom keymap, you can always see the keybinding you have mapped in the Command Palette or the Keybindings tab in the Settings View. If the Platform Selector is not present, then the current page doesn't have any platform-specific content. If you want to see a different platform than the one we detected, you may choose a different one by using the platform selector near the top of the page: These are the default keybindings for the platform that we detected you running. Throughout the book, we will use shortcut keybindings like Cmd+Shift+P Ctrl+Shift+P to demonstrate how to run a command.

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