atom.io: opening a new document
20 Mar 2015Opening documents in atom.io, is managed through the open method of the workspace object.
To open a new document in atom.io, omit the URI parameter of the open call:
{CompositeDisposable} = require 'atom'
module.exports = MyPackage =
subscriptions: null
activate: (state) ->
# Events subscribed to in atom's system can be easily cleaned up with a CompositeDisposable
@subscriptions = new CompositeDisposable
# Register command that toggles this view
@subscriptions.add atom.commands.add 'atom-workspace', 'my-package:execute': => @execute()
deactivate: ->
@subscriptions.dispose()
execute: ->
# no URI given
atom.workspace.open()
When saving the document, you will be prompted for a filename.
If you provide a URI to a non-existing file, a new document will be created with that filename. The file is not created before you hit the save command. You will not be prompted for filename.
execute: ->
# URI for non-existing URI given
atom.workspace.open('c:\\temp\\temp.txt')
If you do not provide a full URI, just a name, it will use the current projects root folder. If no project is open, you will get a new un-named document.
execute: ->
# relative URI for non-existing file
atom.workspace.open('newdoc')
At this time, this is undocumented behavior, but hopefully, not for long.