I think the title says it all. I downloaded Atom, which comes over as a zip file containing an executable, etc. When I right-click on a text file, source code file, etc, in Windows Explorer and select Open With > Choose default program... I don't see Atom in the list of "Recommended Programs" or "Other Programs" (when I use the arrow to expand that list). If I select "Browse" and use the file explorer to navigate to the Atom executable file and select that, when I return to the "Open with" dialog, I still do not see Atom as an option. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to Windows, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate them - thanks!

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Browsing to atom.cmd seems to work. On my computer (Windows 7), it's in C:\Users\Matthew\AppData\Local\atom\bin.

You can find the directory with environment variable %LocalAppData%. Browse to %localappdata%\atom\bin.

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mhenry1384's answer worked for me.

Perhaps some more information will help you.

Installation

You usually install Atom by downloading SetupAtom.exe from Atom.io and running it.

I chose to install Atom with Chocolatey. So after installing Chocolatey, I opened a command line with administrator priviledge and typed

choco install Atom

Location of atom.cmd

That installed Atom to

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\atom\bin

where <username> is my Windows user name.

There is a subfolder bin with a file named atom.cmd. Here is a screenshot.

Always open *.txt files with Atom

Then I right-clicked on a *.txt file,

• selected Open With,
• selected Choose default program...,
• clicked on the button Browse...,
• copied the path C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\atom\bin\*.* (replace <username>) into the text field File name
• clicked the button Open and
• selected atom.cmd in the dialog box and
• clicked the button Open again.
• That's it.

Now, double-clicking any *.txt file opens with Atom as the default editor.

Versions

• Windows 7
• Chocolatey 0.9.9.8
• Atom 1.0.0

Instead of associating your extensions to the atom.cmd file (which doesn't show the beautiful green Atom icon), I associated them with atom.exe, on C:\Users\\AppData\Local\atom\app-\ folder. After first association, Atom app showed on the apps list for subsequent extensions.

i just installed Atom a few hours ago, this worked for me when I browsed through the computer to select a program to open associated files (html,php...)

C:\Users\"USER YOU INSTALLED ATOM ON"\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.2.0\

atom.exe is in the app-1.2.0 folder.

PS: turn on show hidden files to access the AppData folder

Using Windows 10 here. I right clicked the Atom icon on the desktop and picked properties. After that i copied the "Start in" location path. I looked over there with the windows explorer and found atom.exe so i typed this in the git bash:

git config --global core.editor "C:/Users/YOURNAMEUSER/AppData/Local/atom/app-1.7.4/atom.exe"

Note: I changed all \ for / . I do not know if \ works in git bash, i just created a .bashrc at my home directory and used / there and it worked, so i assumed / will be the way to go.

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