Editing Text Files on Raspberry Pi remotely with Atom

1. Install atom on your Debian / Ubuntu laptop / PC:
   1. Download atom-amd64.deb from the Atom releases page.
   2. Run sudo dpkg --install atom-amd64.deb on the downloaded package.
   3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.
2. On atom go to Edit -> Preferences -> Install -> look for remote-atom, click Install
3. Run remote-atom server. On atom go to Packages  -> Remote Atom -> click Run Server
4. ssh to your Pi using special port tunelling command, as such: ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 pi@ipofyourpi
5. Install rmate on your Pi:
   1. Install RMATE
      Now you need to ssh into the Raspberry Pi (ssh your_username@your_raspberry_pi_address). Once you’ve ssh-ed into the pi, run the following in the terminal:

      sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/ratom https://raw.github.com/aurora/rmate/master/rmate

      This command downloads the  from github into a newly created ratomfile in the /usr/local/bin/ folder on the Raspberry Pi.

   2. Make the Script Executable
      sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ratom
6. On your Pi shell, run the following: ratom test.txt, it should open the test.txt file on your laptop / PC
7. To make things simple, rather than ssh-ing using a complex command, you can store your config file in ~/.ssh/config of your laptop / PC.
   1. sudo nano ~/.ssh/config

      Host raspberry_pi_ip_address_or_hostname.com
          RemoteForward 52698 127.0.0.1:52698

   2. Save it
   3. Quit the current Pi ssh session, log in again normally using: ssh pi@ipofyourpi
8. Done! Any problem, refer to these websites and leave comments bellow.
   1. http://www.onenorth.com/blog/post/editing-files-on-raspberry-pi-with-local-sublime
   2. https://atom.io/packages/remote-atom

Tags: atomeditorpisshtext