<p dir="auto">I have a strong habit of opening files from Windows Explorer. My prefered method is to double-click the file. Herein lies the issue: Atom is not only hidden in %appdata% where it can be difficult to find, but there is no static file to associate to since atom.exe is in a versioned directory.</p>
<p dir="auto">My suggestion is to create a very basic launcher that opens the latest version of Atom installed so that users can associate files to Atom without needing to update associations every update.</p>
<p dir="auto">Currently it is not so easy to assign atom as default editor on windows eg for all .css files</p>
<p dir="auto">the path to atom.exe is changed with every update.</p>
<p dir="auto">no exe in C:\Users\hebbet\AppData\Local\atom<br>
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<p dir="auto">Chrome has eg an chrome.exe in:<br>
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application which starts chrome with the currect folder.</p>
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