Atom Golang Setup

I’ve recently switched to Atom from Sublime Text for web development. The transition was relatively painless since many of the keyboard shortcuts and capabilities are the same in. I really enjoy usig Atom and want to have that same experience with programming in Go. This documents my Go setup in Atom.

Install and Configuration Steps

Install go-plus
Set the go-plus GOPATH setting
Ideally the Atom application process should have GOPATH in its ENV and you shouldn’t have to set this.
Install atom build
Set build Panel Visibility setting to Keep Visible
Add .atom-build.json to root of your project directory

{
  "cmd": "$GOROOT/bin/go run {FILE_ACTIVE}",
  "shell": true,
  "env": {
    "GOROOT": "/usr/local/go",
    "GOPATH": "/Users/pfeilbr/go"
  }
}

Keyboard Shortcuts

cmd-alt-b - run current file
cmd-alt-g - goto definition
ctrl-space - code completion