Slack Chat

Slack Chat is an Atom package that integrates the slack messaging client into the atom text editor.

Preview

Installation

• Get client id and secret keys by creating a slack app
  • Name: pick an arbitrary name
  • URL: http://slack-chat.herokuapp.com/slack
  • Redirect URI(s): http://slack-chat.herokuapp.com/slack
  • Description: not necessary
  • Team: Your team, but the app seems to work with other teams as well.
• Go to the slack-chat package settings in atom
  • Paste in your client id and secret
• When the browser opens, select the team you'd like to use with atom
  
• Authorize the app
  
• Copy the received token into the slack-chat package settings.
• Restart atom

Usage

1. Keybindings
2. Settings

Todo

• Send/receive messages in real time
• Real time message notification system
• User Status (online/offline)
• Create Keybindings for selection
• Parse markdown
• Display emoji (regular and custom)
• Display/download images/files
• Display images/gifs/open graph data when a url is posted
• Send a selection of text as a message/file
• Discover channels the user is not currently a part of
• Refresh when a user is invited to a channel
• Manually resize panel in chat views
• Upload files
• Code highlight for markdown
• Fix markdown differences between github flavored and Slack
• Load previous when at top of scroll
• Search for messages
• User requests