Atom Menu V2.0.8 May 2026

In most versions of Atom, you can access the primary menu and settings view by using Ctrl+, (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+, (macOS). Post-Sunset Alternatives

Created by the original Atom founders, built for high performance in Rust. Atom Menu v2.0.8

Recent updates to the Atom core (prior to archiving) focused on fixing menu updates with internationalization (i18n) and improving how the editor handles platform-specific context menus, such as adding support for the Cinnamon desktop environment on Linux. In most versions of Atom, you can access

A community-led fork that continues to update the editor and its internal packages. A community-led fork that continues to update the

Atom itself was a "hackable" editor developed by GitHub and built on the Electron framework, designed to be customized using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Though GitHub officially discontinued the project in 2022 , several community forks and specific interface packages continue to be used. Core Context and Functions

Many versioned "Menu" packages, such as atom-simplified-chinese-menu , provide translations for the top-level menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc.) to make the editor accessible in multiple languages.