Ability to use composer from PATH

[villermen]

I am loving the plugin, good work there. On to the question: I'm using sync-settings to transfer my configuration between home and work. Using php from path makes me able to not use absolute names, but for some reason composer.phar requires the absolute path, and I can't just add "composer" (which I added to PATH). There's probably a valid reason for this not working, but could you explain it to me/revisit it?

[conradkleinespel]

If you're syncing stuff, and this does not work, what you might want to do is set COMPOSER_HOME to the same folder on your work and home computer, then install composer via composer.phar globally, and then specifying the full composer path in Atom.

Here's an example of what I mean:

mkdir /var/composer
export COMPOSER_HOME=/var/composer
echo COMPOSER_HOME=/var/composer >> ~/.bashrc

composer.phar global require composer/composer
# now use: /var/composer/vendor/bin/composer

With that, you can sync the /var/composer directory, for instance via a symlink to your Dropbox folder if that's what you're using.