iTrace Atom

About

iTrace Atom is a plugin for the Atom text editor. The plugin will establish a connection to the iTrace Core desktop application. Once connected to the Core the plugin will accept information from the Core and translate it to editor specific data and output the data to an XML file.

Installation

1. Install the apm utility. See http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installing-atom/ if you do not have it installed.

2. Git clone or download to zip file (extract zip file)

3. Navigate to the root folder iTrace-atom in the terminal
   Example command: cd ./path_to_clone/iTrace-atom

4. Run the command apm link in a terminal. This sets the current folder as a plugin folder for Atom.

5. Run the command npm install to install required dependencies

6. Restart Atom editor to load the new package

Features

• Getting line and column from an XY Coordinate
• Getting word at XY Coordinate
• Highlight word at XY Coordinate
• Highlight words at mouse cursor location

Future Features

• Unit Testing
• Getting token information at XY Coordinate
• Writing token, line, column and valuable data to an XML file
• Ability to send XY coordinates to the plugin Via a socket connection