Answer by OnceACurious for How to open atom using a "atom ." command in terminal?

For future reference: Windows user only

Go to C:\Users\<username>, then enable Hidden items in View tab.Click AppDataLocal then Atom. Then, click app-<version>.

Go to the path:

On Search in taskbar type variable. Then click Edit the system environment variable.

Select Path. Then click Edit, New, and Paste the copied Path . Then finally click all ok buttons. Then close cmd and open again.

atom --version

To open a project with atom

Go to your project directory: by typing cd /<foldername> using cmd or bash. Then type,

atom .