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You know what I would really enjoy? Being able to sign into your Github account and sync your preferences and packages to the cloud. Then if I sign in on a different computer, all my hotkeys, packages and themes are copied over seamlessly.

As a crappy workaround I have this: https://github.com/sergiotapia/atom-meteor-packages

But still, I would like this to be a core integration.

I've since switched to RubyMine and WebStorm because I just want something that meshes together for me, I don't want 'javascript fatigue' in my dev tools as well. RubyMine's built in visual studio-like debugger is killer.

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Agreed that this should be built in. I've been using https://github.com/atom-community/sync-settings which stores everything in a gist and has worked out reasonably well so far. The pain points are that you have to manually set it up the first time with the gist id and (optional) private api key, and backups have to be triggered manually.

do you find when you sync-settings:Restore onto a new box, the atom app completely freezes up as it tries to suddenly download all the packages?

You can use `apm stars --install` for the package syncing part of this. It's reasonably close to what you're looking for.

http://blog.atom.io/2014/06/09/stars.html

For me, the Visual Studio-like debugger is killer in theory, but in practice, it hangs a lot and I have to shut down and restart RubyMine.

That sucks, it works flawlessly for me on my El Capitan and RubyMine 2016.1

Do you have a good resource for learning the debugger in RubyMine? I'm still using mostly puts and pry for debugging, but it sounds like the RM debugger could be a win.

http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2015-ruby-debugger-inter...

This is a video by Dennis Ulshakov, the maintainer. I haven't watched this in its entirety but it's only 20 mins.

  cd ~/.emacs.d
  git init
  git add .
  git commit -m "My emacs config"
  git remote add origin http://github.com/myname/myemacsd
  git remote -v
  git push origin master

Just sayin' is all ...

That's not web scale /s

That being said, because I use a different OS every week, I have found this to not work as well as I'd like because I often forget to commit/push after a change.

Since I'm always committing/pushing, it seems to me like keeping ~/.emacs.d in Dropbox is the better solution.

I like to use:

    git push -u origin master

So then the next time all I need to do is:

    git push

That depends on your git.push settings. I have it set to current, which means `git push` pushes the current branch to only an origin branch of the same name.

Maybe auto-discovery for `.atom`-named project?

You can always try to make a Pull Request at see what it comes out!

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