How to share/transfer an Atom installation (packages and settings) from one Mac to another?

Question

Is it possible to copy Atom from one Mac to another, including all installed packages, settings etc?

Answer 1

You can sync your packages via package-list.txt file and a simple shell script.

Create the package-list.txt file

apm list --installed --bare > package-list.txt

Install missing packages on another host

BASEDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
INSTALLEd_PKGS=$(apm list --installed --bare)
for PKG in $(cut -f1 -d@ $BASEDIR/package-list.txt); do
    grep -q $PKG <<< $INSTALLEd_PKGS || apm install $PKG
done